Claude Debussy and Ray Bradbury - August 22

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Thursday, August 22, 2024

Today is National Eat a Peach Day and National Bao Day.

• Health and Wellness Month Resource of the Day: Youth Mental Health Collection
• Sandwich Month Sandwich of the Day: Peach Toasts

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  Claude Debussy and Ray Bradbury
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ON THIS DATE

• 1485 - England's War of the Roses ends when King Richard III is killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field.
• 1851 -The yacht America wins the first America's Cup.
• 1864 - Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1834 - Astronomer Samuel Pierpont Langley
• 1862 - French composer Claude Debussy
• 1893 - Writer and critic Dorothy Parker
• 1904 - Chinese communist leader Deng Xiaoping
• 1920 - Science fiction writer Ray Bradbury
• 1935 - Novelist  Annie Proulx
• 1939 - Boston Red Sox great Carl Yastrzemski
• 1995 - Singer-songwriter Dua Lipa

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Claude Debussy - Clair de Lune - LISTEN
  
• Styx - Come Sail Away - LISTEN
• Christopher Cross - Sailing - LISTEN
• Crosby, Stills & Nash - Southern Cross - LISTEN
• The Carl Yastrzemski Song - LISTEN
• Presidents of the United States of America - Peaches - LISTEN

THEME: CLAUDE DEBUSSY

• Grades 3-6 - Classics for Kids - Claude Debussy - READ
• Grades 6-10 - NHPBS LeaarningMedia - Music Arts Toolkit - Introduction to Impressionism/Post-Impressionism (11:20) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12  - NHPBS Video - Romantic Debussy at 18 (26:46) - VIEW
  
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - University Place - Debussy’s Piano Portraits (59:19) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS  Video - Sound Tracks - Tom Harrell Performs "Passepied" (Debussy) (2:33) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS  Video - Sound Tracks - Tom Harrell Performs "Beau Soir" (Debussy) (5:34) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS  Video - On Stage At Curtis - 20th Century Composers: Ysaÿe and Debussy (28:49) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Inland Sessions - Archie Chen: Petite Suite, Claude Debussy (3:52) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Utah Places - Prélude à laprès-midi d'un faune (5:27) - VIEW

THEME:  RAY BRADBURY

• Grades 7-12 - ReadWriteThink - Ray Bradbury - READ and DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Blank on Blank - Ray Bradbury on Madmen (5:12) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12  - NHPBS Video -  PBS NewsHour - Remembering Ray Bradbury and His 'Cautionary Tales' (6:20) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Chicago Tonight - Remembering Ray Bradbury (4:25) -VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Antiques Roadshow - Appraisal: Ray Bradbury Archive (3:52) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - It's Okay to Be Smart - When Science Fiction Becomes Science Fact (7:36) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - University Place - The Life of Ray Bradbury (56:53) -VIEW

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