Television- November 21

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Thursday, November 21, 2024

Today is World Hello Day, World Television Day, Gingerbread Cookie Day, and National Stuffing Day.

Native American Heritage Month Resource - The Hopi Origin Story

On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Television

ON THIS DATE

• 1620 - Plymouth Colony settlers sign the Mayflower Compact.
• 1789 - North Carolina becomes the 12th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
• 1877 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph.
• 1905 - Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik. 
• 1922 - Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first female United States Senator. She served for one day.
• 2000 - The Florida Supreme Court grants Democrat Al Gore's request to keep the presidential election recount going.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1694 - French writer Francois Voltaire
• 1727 - NH Physician and politician Josiah Bartlett
• 1835 - Financier Hetty Green
• 1898 - Belgian painter Rene Magritte
• 1904 - Jazz saxophonist Coleman Hawkins 
• 1908 - Children's author Elizabeth George Speare
• 1944 - Actor and director Harold Ramis
• 1945 - Actor Goldie Hawn
• 1965 - Icelandic singer-songwriter Björk

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Coleman Hawkins - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - LISTEN
• Bjork - It's Oh So Quiet - LISTEN
• Bruce Springsteen - 57 Channels (and Nothing On) - LISTEN
• Bob Dylan - TV Talkin' Song - LISTEN
• Lou Reed - Satellite of Love - LISTEN
• Television - Marquee Moon - LISTEN
• Adele - Hello - LISTEN
• Beatles - Hello, Goodbye - LISTEN
• John Prine - Hello in There - LISTEN

THEME:  TELEVISION

• Grades PreK-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Arthur - TV Star - DO
• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia -Bringing a Theatrical Work to Television (13:58) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Television  (6:16) - VIEW
  
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources - Television! Collection - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Experience - 1964: "Television Reflects Social Change" (2:29) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Pioneers of Television Series - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - I Remember Television Series -VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia -Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You - Race and Representation on Television: Norman Lear’s Good Times and The Jeffersons (1:10) - VIEW and DO

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