Sherlock Holmes and Mary Cassatt - May 22

Elementary (and Middle and High School) Learning, My Dear Watson

Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Today is Canadian Immigrants Day, Buy a Musical Instrument Day, Maritime Day, Solitaire Day, Vanilla Pudding Day, Sherlock Holmes Day, Goth Day, and Orienteering Day.

May is Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Sherlock Holmes and Mary Cassatt
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Resource of the Day
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ON THIS DATE

• 1804 - The Lewis and Clark Expedition begins.
• 1819 - SS Savannah leaves Savannah, Georgia on a journey that will make it the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
• 1849 - Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to lift boats, making him the only U.S. president to ever hold a patent.
• 1856 - Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate over a speech Sumner gave about slavery in the South. 
• 1900 - The Associated Press is formed.
• 1906 - The Wright brothers are granted a patent for their "Flying-Machine."
• 1927 - An 8.3 magnitude near Xining, China, kills 200,000.
• 1968 - The nuclear-powered submarine USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard.
• 1992 - Johnny Carson hosts his last Tonight Show.
• 2002 - A jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murder of four girls in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.
• 2011 -  An EF5 tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri, killing 158.
• 2017 - Twenty-two people are killed in a bombing at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1813 - German composer Richard Wagner
• 1844 - Painter Mary Cassatt
• 1959 - Scottish author Arthur Conan Doyle
• 1907 - English actor Laurence Olivier
• 1930 - Politician Harvey Milk
• 1950 - English songwriter Bernie Taupin
• 1959 - English singer-songwriter Morrissey
• 1960 - Japanese animator and director Hideaki Anno

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Elvis Costello - Watching the Detectives - LISTEN
• The Monkees - Mary Mary - LISTEN
• Elton John - Tiny Dancer (Lyrics by Bernie Taupin) - LISTEN
• Morrisey - Everyday is Like Sunday -  LISTEN
• Richard Wagner - Ride of the Valkyries - LISTEN

ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER RESOURCE OF THE DAY
NHPBS LearningMedia - Asian Americans in the Arts

THEME: Sherlock Holmes

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Sherlock Hemlock Helps Maria (2:43) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Ernlock Holmes (5:13) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Ernie's Half-Eaten Sandwich (3:03) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Lakeshore Classic Movies - Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942) (1:08:04) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Lakeshore Classic Movies - Terror By Night  (1946) (59:33) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Hound of the Baskervilles 1: Meet Sherlock Holmes (1:47) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia -The Hound of the Baskervilles 2: The Mysterious Moor (2:05) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Hound of the Baskervilles 3: The Seance (1:54) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-8 - ReadWriteThink - Expository Escapade - Detective's Handbook Lesson Plan - READ and DO
• Grades 9-12 - ReadWriteThink - Investigating Genre: The Case of the Classic Detective Story Lesson Plan - READ and DO

THEME: Mary Cassatt

• Grades K-1 - NHPBS Video - Reading Explorers - Mary Cassatt (14:14) - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - National Gallery of Art - Art Starters - Mary Cassatt - DO
• Grades 5-12 - National Gallery of Art - Mary Cassatt - READ and VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - PBS Learning Media - Kentucky Virtual Art Museum - L'Enfant (The Child), 1905 - READ and DO
• Grades 7-12 - The Art Assignment - The Case of Impressionism (12:41) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - Mary Cassatt: A Brush with Independence (56:20) - VIEW

WATCH

NHPBS - 11.1 Comcast (2/802) More Options

NATURE - Wild Ireland: Kingdom of Stone 
Wednesday, 5/22 from 8-9 pm NHPBS
Follow the story of a pine marten as she takes us on a journey through a desert of gray stones called the Burren, home to some of Ireland's most enchanting wildlife. NATURE Streaming Video

NOVA - Decoding the Universe: Cosmos
Wednesday, 5/22 from 9-10 pm NHPBS
How big is the universe? Will it ever end? Why is so much of it made of mysterious dark matter and energy? See how mind-bending discoveries over the past 50 years have revolutionized our understanding of the universe. NOVA Streaming Video

POMPEII: THE NEW DIG - Escape 
Wednesday, 5/22 from 10-11 pm NHPBS
A new excavation in Pompeii continues to unearth rich discoveries. Professor Steven Tuck of Miami University joins the team to look for evidence of Pompeiians who might have survived the eruption of AD 79. POMPEII: THE NEW DIG Streaming Video

NH WORLD - 11.3 More Options

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE - Surviving the Dust Bowl 
Wednesday, 5/22 from 2-3 pm NH WORLD
They were called "Black Blizzards," dark clouds reaching miles into the sky, churning millions of tons of dirt into torrents of destruction. For ten years beginning in 1930, dust storms ravaged the parched and overplowed southern plains, turning bountiful wheat fields into deserts. Disease, hardship, and death followed, yet the majority of people stayed on, steadfastly refusing to give up on the land and a way of life. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Streaming Video

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE - Citizen Hearst: Part One
Wednesday, 5/22 from 3-5 pm NH WORLD
Trace the rise of William Randolph Hearst, who built the nation's largest media empire by the 1930s. Born into one of America's wealthiest families, he used his properties to achieve unprecedented political power, then ran for office himself. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Streaming Video

INDPENDENT LENS - Free Chol Soo Lee
Wednesday, 5/22 from 7-8:30 pm NH WORLD
Sentenced to death for a 1973 San Francisco murder, Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee was set free after a pan-Asian solidarity movement of Korean, Japanese, and Chinese Americans helped to overturn his conviction. After 10 years of fighting for his life inside San Quentin, Lee found himself in a new fight to rise to the expectations of the people who believed in him. INDEPENDENT LENS Streaming Video

• UPCOMING EVENT - Saturday, June 7, 2025 - 2025 NH Makers Fest - More Information

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