Seeds and Booker T. Washington - April 5
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Friday, April 5, 2024
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Today's Theme: SEEDS and BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
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ON THIS DATE
- 1710 - The Statute of Anne establishes copyright law in the U.K.
- 1792 - George Washington casts the first presidential veto.
- 1933 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an executive order establishing the Civilian Conservation Corps. (CCC in New Hampshire)
- 1951 - Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.
- 1984 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar becomes the highest-scoring player in NBA history with 31,421 career points. He still holds the record with 38,387 points.
- 1588 - English philosopher Thomas Hobbes
- 1692 - French actress Adrienne Lecouvreur
- 1732 - French rococo painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard
- 1856 - Educator Booker T. Washington
- 1858 - Canadian businessman Washington Atlee Burpee
- 1900 - Actor Spencer Tracy
- 1908 - Actor Bette Davis
- 1916 - Actor Gregory Peck
- 1925 - Geneticist Janet Rowley
- 1935 - English astrophysicist Donald Lynden-Bell
- 1937 - General and former Secretary of State Colin Powell
- 1949 - Astronaut and engineer Judith Resnik
- 1951 Inventor and NH resident Dean Kamen
- 1973 - Singer-songwriter Pharrell Williams
- 1980 - Basketball player and Concord, NH native Matt Bonner
Pharrell Williams - Happy - LISTEN- Pharrell Williams - Sesame Street B is for Book - LISTEN
- Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes - LISTEN
Jimmy Buffet - Love in the Library -LISTEN- Green Day - At the Library - LISTEN
- Robert Frost - Putting in the Seed
- Kathleen Driskell - Seed
- Grades 3-7 - PBS LearningMedia - American Icons - Booker T. Washington: Orator, Teacher, and Advisor ( Available in Spanish) (3:51) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Booker T. Washington (2:00) - LISTEN
- Grades 5-12 - PBS LeearningMedia - Booker T. Washington Invites Carver to Tuskegee (4:33)- VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - National Park Service - Measure of a Man (13:00) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - The Roosevelts - Booker T. Washington at the White House (3:18) - VIEW
- Grades: 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Masters - Dr. Bledsoe: A Fictional Booker T. Washington (2:33) - VIEW and DO
- Grades: 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow - Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois: The Conflict (3:31) - VIEW and DO
- Grades: 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia- The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow - Booker T. Washington: An Education (7:21) - VIEW and DO
- Grades: 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Biography of America - You Decide: Washington or Du Bois? (28:40) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Divergent Educational Philosophies: Washington, Dubois, and Garvey (2:33) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearingMedia - Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges & Universities Collection - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Basic Black - Booker T. Washington vs. W.E.B. DuBois (26:46) - VIEW
THEME: SEEDS
- Grades PreK - PBS LearningMedia - Peep and the Big Wide World - Experimenting with Seeds (1:27) - VIEW
- Grades PreK - PBS LearningMedia - Peep Plants a Seed (8:50) - VIEW
- Grades PreK - PBS LearningMedia - Between the Lions - The Carrot Seed (3:47) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Everyday Learning - From Seed to Fruit (2:01) - VIEW and DO
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Mrs. Obama Plants Garden (2:39) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elmo's World: Growing Beans (1:47) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sid the Science Kid - Growing Plants (1:49) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Mister Chris and Friends - Seeds (13:46) - VIEW and DO
- Grades PreK-2 - Plum Landing - Seed Racer Game - DO
- Grades PreK-2 - Plum Landing - Make a Seed Blaster - DO
- Grades PreK-2 - Plum Landing - Seed Travels - DO
- Grades K-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature Cat - Seed Soaring Game - DO
- Grades K-4 - PBS Learning Media - Nature Cat - Travelin' Seeds (11:50) - VIEW
- Grades K-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - From Seed to Flower (1:07) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades K-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Zoom - Sock Seeds (3:00) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - America's Heartland - Organic Seeds and Grain (3:36) - VIEW and DO
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AMERICAN MASTERS - The Incomparable Mr. Buckley
Friday, 4/05 from 9-11 pm NHPBS
Discover the intellectual evolution and political legacy of William F. Buckley, Jr. See how the author and commentator, one of the foremost public intellectuals in American history, galvanized the modern conservative movement. AMERICAN MASTERS Streaming Video
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Friday, 4/05 from 8-9:30 pm NH WORLD
This intimate portrait dives into the heart of America's opioid crisis through the reentry of three mothers imprisoned for drug-related crimes. As the women prepare to rejoin their families after years of incarceration, they enter an innovative prison program in Cleveland, Ohio where they lean on each other to learn the skills it will take to get a job, stay sober, and win the trust of their kids.INDEPENDENT LENS Streaming Video
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