Friends and Emily Bronte

Summer Learning

Thursday, July 30, 2020

Today is International Day of Friendship, Cheesecake Day, National Chili Dog Day, National Whistleblowers Appreciation Day, and Paperback Book Day.

ON THIS DATE.

  • 1953 - President  Eisenhower signs a joint resolution of Congress making In God We Trust the national motto.
  • 1965 - President Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
  • 1975 - Labor union leader Jimmy Hoffa disappears from a restaurant parking lot in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan,
  • 2020 - Mars rover Perseverance launched.

BIRTHDAYS

  • 1751 - Pianist Maria Anna Mozart
  • 1818 - Novelist Emily Brontë
  • 1863 - Businessman Henry Ford
  • 1947 - Actor and politician Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • 1956 - Lawyer and academic Anita Hill
  • 1960 - Screenwriter and director Richard Linklater
  • 1961 - Actor Laurence Fishburne
  1. Songs of the Day
    Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights - LISTEN
    Carole King - You've Got a Friend - LISTEN

THEME: FRIENDS

  • Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Let's Be Friends - VIEW
  • Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street -Elmo and Rosita Teach Friendship
    VIEW
  • Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elmo's World - Friends - VIEW
  • Grades PreK-1 - Mister Rogers - When Friends Fight - VIEW
  • Grades PreK-1 - PBSLearnin Media -Friendshi: Daniel Tiger: Life's Little Lessons- VIEW
  • Grades PreK-2 - Peg + Cats - A World Made By Friends - VIEW
  • Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia -Online "Friends"- VIEW
  • Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Unlikely Friends - VIEW, READ, and DO
  • Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature -FRiendship in the Animal Kingdom -VIEW, READ, and DO

THEME: EMILY BRONTE

  • Grades 9-12 -  PBS  LearingMedai - Breaking Barriers: To Walk Invisible: The Brontë Sisters- VIEW, READ and DO
  • Grades 9-12 -  PBS LearningMedia - Wuthering Heights 1: On the Moors
    - VIEW, READ and DO
  • Grades 9-12 -  PBS LearningMedia - Wuthering Heights 2: Heathcliff as Hero
    - VIEW, READ and DO
  • Grades 9-12 -  PBS LearningMedia - Wuthering Heights 3: Love or Revenge- VIEW, READ and DO
  • Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Metrofocus - To Walk the Invisible: The Bronte Sisters  - VIEW
  • Grades 7-12 - Poetry Foundation - Emily Bronte -READ
  • GRades 7-12 - British Library - Emily Bronte - READ

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