Authors and Dia de Los Muertos - November 1

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Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Today is  All Saints Day, Calzone Day, Author's Day, Dia de Los Muertos, Family Literacy Day, Prime Meridian Day, Deep Fried Clams Day, and Vegan Day.

Native American Heritage Month Resource of the Day - Our New Hampshire - People of the Dawn - VIEW, READ, DO

On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  AUTHORS AND DIA DE LOS MUERTOS 
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ON THIS DATE

• 1512 - The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.
• 1604 - William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
• 1611- Shakespeare's play The Tempest is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
• 1765 - The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the Thirteen Colonies.
• 1800 - John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the White House.
• 1848 - The first medical school for women, Boston Female Medical School, opens.
• 1861 -  Lincoln names George B. McClellan as the commander of the Union Army.
• 1870 - The U.S. Weather Bureau makes its first meteorological prediction.
• 1938 - Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century."
• 1952 - The U.S. detonates the first hydrogen bomb in the Marshall Islands.
• 1968 - The Motion Picture Association of America's film rating system is officially introduced.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1848 - Black physician and abolitionist Caroline Still Anderson
• 1849 - Artist William Merritt Chase
• 1871 - Novelist and poet Stephen Crane
• 1957 - Singer-songwriter Lyle Lovett
• 1962 - Singer-songwriter Anthony Kiedis
• 1972 - Australian actor Toni Collette

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Beatles - Paperback Writer - LISTEN
• Elvis Costello  - Everyday I Write the Book - LISTEN
• Lyle Lovett - She's No Lady - LISTEN
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge - LISTEN

THEME: AUTHORS

• Grades K-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Linda Sue Park - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-7- PBS LearningMedia - Candace Flemming - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-12 PBS LearningMedia - Patricia & Frederick McKissack - VIEW and DO
• Grades 2-7 - PBS LearningMedia - Rosemary Wells  - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Katherine Paterson - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-9- PBS LearningMedia - Jerry Spinelli - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-9- PBS LearningMedia - Shannon Hale - VIEW and DO
• Grades 5-9- PBS LearningMedia - Anita Silvey - VIEW and DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - NH Author Series - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - American Masters - Philip Roth: Unmasked - VIEW 
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS Books  - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Author Visits - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - It's Lit Series - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Author Imprint Series - VIEW
• Grades 9-11 - PBS LearningMedia - Laurie Halse Anderson - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - It's Lit - The Case for Fan Fiction (11:19) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12- PBS LearningMedia - To Walk Invisible: The Brontë Sisters - Breaking Barriers - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - PBS Learning Media - American Experience - Meet Willa Cather (2:24) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Masters - Phillip Roth -  I Work Every Day (3:31) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-adult- Learner.org - American Passages: A Literary Survey Video Course - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-adult - Learner.org - Voices and Visions Video Course (poets)  - VIEW, READ, DO

THEME: DIA DE LOS MUERTOS

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Dia de Los Muertos Song (3:01)  - VIEW
• Grades K-5 - PBS LearningMedia - All About the Holidays - Dia de Los Muertos (1:42) - VIEW
• Grades K-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Everyday Learning Dia de Los Muertos (Available in English and Spanish) (3:02) - VIEW

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NATURE - Spy in the Ocean Miniseries - Deep Feelings
Wednesday, 11/01 from 8-9 pm NHPBS
Spy creatures explore animal emotions and the deep feelings we share. With surfing dolphins, kissing manatees and sensitive cuttlefish, witness the emotional roller-coaster of life in the sea. NATURE - Spy in the Ocean Streaming Video

NOVA - Ancient Earth: Humans
Wednesday, 11/01 from 9-10 pm NHPBS
How did Earth give rise to humans? With stunningly realistic animation, witness the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs, the spread of primates across the planet, and the geologic events that made our species' existence possible. NOVA Streaming Video

SECRETS OF THE DEAD - Death in Britannia
Wednesday, 11/01 from 10-11 pm NHPBS
The discovery of a skeleton, dating to the Roman occupation of Britain, provokes further study after scientists see an iron nail driven through its heel bone. Could the remains belong to someone the Romans crucified? Despite hundreds, if not thousands, of people being crucified in the Roman Empire, only one other crucified skeleton has ever been found in the world. Who was this person? What was his life in Roman Britain like? And what could they have done to receive so harsh a punishment? SECRETS OF THE DEAD Streaming Video

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FIRST PEOPLES - Africa
Wednesday, 11/01 from 11 am-12 pm NHPBS EXPLORE
200,000 years ago, a new species appeared on the African landscape -- Homo Sapiens. Scientists imagined eastern Africa was a real-life Garden of Eden, but the latest research suggests we evolved in many places across the continent at the same time. FIRST PEOPLES Streaming Video

AFRICAN AMERICANS: MANY RIVERS TO CROSS - Rise (1940-1968)
Wednesday, 11/01 from 3-4 pm NHPBS EXPLORE
Rise! examines the long road to civil rights, when the deep contradictions in American society finally became unsustainable. Beginning in World War II, African Americans who helped fight fascism abroad came home to face the same old racial violence.  AFRICAN AMERICANS: MANY RIVERS TO CROSS Streaming Video

AFRICAN AMERICANS: MANY RIVERS TO CROSS - A More Perfect Union (1968-2013)
Wednesday, 11/01 from 4-5 pm NHPBS EXPLORE
After 1968, African Americans set out to build a bright new future on the foundation of the civil rights movement's victories, but a growing class disparity threatened to split the black community in two. As hundreds of African Americans won political office across the country and the black middle class made unprecedented progress, larger economic and political forces isolated the black urban poor in the inner cities, vulnerable to new social ills and an epidemic of incarceration. AFRICAN AMERICANS: MANY RIVERS TO CROSS Streaming Video

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