Tomie dePaola - September 15

Noodling Around With Learning

Sunday, September 15, 2024

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• Hispanic/Latino Heritage Month Resource of the Day: Latino Americans: Foreigners in Their Own Land - Episode 1
• Classical Music Month Resource of the Day: In the Key of Bach

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  Tomie dePaola

ON THIS DATE

• 1835 - The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin, reaches the Galápagos Islands.
• 1935 - The Nuremberg Laws strips German Jews of their citizenship.
• 1963 - Four young Black girls are killed in a bombing at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
• 1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the first female Supreme Court justice. American Experience - Sandra Day O'Connor  - VIEW

BIRTHDAYS

• 1789 - Author James Fenimore Cooper
• 1857 - President William Howard Taft
• 1857 - American astronomer Anna Winlock
• 1890 - English author Agatha Christie
• 1906 - American songwriter Walter E. Rollins (Here Comes Pete Cottontail and Frosty the Snowman)
• 1907 - Actress Fay Wray
  
• 1928 - Saxophonist and bandleader Cannonball Adderley
• 1934 - Author and Illustrator Tomie dePaola
• 1945 - Opera singer Jessye Norman
• 1984 - Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• The Eagles - Witchy Woman - LISTEN
• Donovan - Season of the Witch - LISTEN
• Santana - Black Magic Woman - LISTEN
• Gene Autry - Frosty the Snowman - LISTEN
• Cannonball Adderley - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy - LISTEN
• Jessye Norman - Ave Maria - LISTEN

THEME: TOMIE DEPAOLA

• Grades PreK-3 - Storyline - Strega Nona Read by Mary Steenburgen (12:05) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3- The Jim Henson Company - Telling Stories with Tomie - "Every Picture Tells a Story" (4:33) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3- The Jim Henson Company - Telling Stories with Tomie - "Scary" (3:55) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3- The Jim Henson Company - Telling Stories with Tomie - "Funny"(4:55) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-12 - NHPBS Video - Great KCTA Read-a-thon - Tomie dePaola (9:55) - VIEW
• Grades K-1 - ReadWriteThink -  Draw a Story: Stepping from Pictures to Writing (Pancakes for Breakfast) - DO
• Grades: 4-12 - The Jim Henson Company - Telling Stories with Tomie - "Food as Storytelling" (2:49) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - NH Authors - Tomie dePaola (29:33) - VIEW
• Grades 6-Adult - Reading Rockets - A Video Interview With Tomie dePaola - READ AND VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - Tomie DePaola Website - VIEW and READ
• Grades 6-12 - PBS NewsHour -  'Strega Nona’ Author Tomie dePaola is Dead at Age 85 - READ

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