Mice (and Other Small Rodents) - February 10

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Saturday, February 10, 2024

Today is the Chinese New Year, Lunar New Year, Cream Cheese Brownie Day, National Flannel Day, and Umbrella Day.

Black History Month Resource of the Day: Claudette Colvin

• NHPBS Video - Before Rosa Parks, There Was Claudette Colvin
• NHPBS Video - They Dared: Claudette Colvin
• NHPBS Video - Wit and Wisdom Grade 8 Episode One - Claudette Colvin
• NY Times - Lesson of the Day: ‘A Civil Rights Pioneer Seeks to Have Her Record Cleared’

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Mice and Other Small Rodents
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ON THIS DATE

• 1763 - The Treaty of Paris ends the French and Indian War and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.
• 1840 - Britain's Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg-Gotha.
• 1940 - Cartoon characters Tom and Jerry make their debut with Puss Gets the Boot.
• 1964 - Bob Dylan's album "The Times They Are A-Changin"' is released.
• 1967 - The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
• 1996 - IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.
• 2007 - Illinois senator Barack Obama announces his candidacy for president in the 2008 elections, which he later goes on to win.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1890 - Russian author Boris Pasternak
• 1898 - German playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht
• 1930 - Children's author and illustrator E. L. Konigsburg
• 1937 - Singer-songwriter Roberta Flack
• 1950 - Swimmer Mark Spitz
• 1961 - Journalist George Stephanopoulos

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly with His Song  - LISTEN
• Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin - LISTEN
• Rihanna - Umbrella - LISTEN

THEME:  Mice 

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street -  Miami Mice with The Count (5:04) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Super Why! - The City Mouse and the Country Mouse (26:24) - VIEW 
• Grades PreK-1 - NHPBS Video - Reading Explorers - If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (26:47) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - NHPBS Video - Reading Explorers - If You Take a Mouse to School (26:47) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - NHPBS Video - Reading Explorers - If You Give a Mouse a Brownie (26:47) - VIEW
• Grades K-2 - NHPBS Video - Reading Explorers - Country Mouse City Mouse (26:11) - VIEW
• Grades 3-12 - NHPBS Wildlife Journal Junior - Rodentia - gophers, mice, rats, squirrels, porcupines, beavers, chipmunks - READ
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS VIDEO - Deeper Look - Kangaroo Rats Are Furry, Spring-Loaded Ninjas (4:06) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Meet the Kangaroo Rat (2:15) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS Newshour - How Giant African Rats Are Finding Land Mines in Cambodia (7:03) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - When Rodents Had Horns (8:23) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Animal IQ - This Rat Can Drive a Car? (7:35) - VIEW

WATCH

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UNFORGIVABLE BLACKNESS: THE RISE AND FALL OF JACK JOHNSON Part Two
Saturday, 2/10 from 3-5 pm NH WORLD
This film by Ken Burns chronicles the life and career of boxer Jack Johnson, the first African American heavyweight champion and one of the greatest fighters of the 20th century. Johnson ultimately lost his title in a bout in Cuba in 1915, after fleeing the United States following his federal conviction for allegedly violating the Mann Act, a progressive-era law intended to crackdown on commercialized vice but used against Johnson to create an example against, to quote the prosecutor, "the evils of miscegenation." UNFORGIVABLE Streaming Video

THE BLACK CHURCH: THIS IS OUR STORY, THIS IS OUR SONG - Part Two
Saturday, 2/10 from 8-10 pm NH WORLD
Discover how the Black church expanded its reach to address social inequality and minister to those in need, from the Jim Crow South to the heroic phase of the civil rights movement, and the Black church's role in the present. THE BLACK CHURCH Streaming Video

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