Thomas Jefferson - April 13
Founding Father Learning
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Today is Scrabble Day, Thomas Jefferson Day, National Bookmobile Day, Plant Adaptation Day, School Librarian Day, Scrabble Day, and National Peach Cobbler Day.
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day - April is National Poetry Month
Today's Theme: Thomas Jefferson
ON THIS DATE
- 1598 - King Henry IV of France signs the Edict of Nantes, granting rights to the Protestant Huguenots.
- 1742 - George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah premieres in Dublin, Ireland.
- 1861 - Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces.
- 1870 - Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.
- 1873 - More than 60 Black men are murdered in the Colfax Massacre in Colfax, Louisiana.
- 1943 - The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
- 1964 - Sidney Poitier becomes the first Black male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.
- 1970 - An oxygen tank aboard the Apollo 13 Service Module explodes.
- 1997 - Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters.
- 1570 - English soldier Guy Fawkes
- 1743 - 3rd President of the U.S. Thomas Jefferson
- 1769 - English painter Sir Thomas Lawrence
- 1828 - English feminist and social reformer Josephine Butler
- 1854 - Educator Lucy Craft Laney
- 1892 - Scottish engineer Robert Watson-Watt
- 1899 - Game designer (Scrabble) and architect Alfred Mosher Butts
- 1902 - Author Marguerite Henry
- 1906 - Irish novelist, poet, and playwright Samuel Beckett
- 1909 - Novelist and short story writer Eudora Welty
- 1929 - Golfer Marilynn Smith
- 1939 - Irish writer Seamus Heaney
- 9146 - Singer-songwriter Al Green
- 1963 - Russian chess player Garry Kasparov
POEM OF THE DAY
Lorine Niedecker - Thomas Jefferson
THEME: THOMAS JEFFERSON
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street: Thomas Jefferson Needs a Quill (4:19) - VIEW
- Grades K-12 - Monticello Digital Classroom - VIEW, READ and DO
- Grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Exploring Monticello (44:04) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Three Presidents - Monroe, Madison, Jefferson Media Gallery - VIEW
- Grades 3-8 - BrainPop - Educator Resources for Thomas Jefferson - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 4-8 - ICivics - Thomas Jefferson Mini-Lesson (need to register as an educator to access) - DO
- Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - 60-Second Presidents - Thomas Jefferson (1:07) - VIEW
- Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Thomas Jefferson - A Film by Ken Burns - VIEW
- Grades 6-8 - EDSITEment - Jefferson vs. Franklin: Revolutionary Philosophers Lesson - READ and DO
- Grades 8-12 - Crash Course - Jefferson (13:13) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - EDSITEment - Thomas Jefferson and the Sedition Act Lesson - READ and DO
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Slavery at Jefferson's Monticello: Paradox of Liberty (26:56) - VIEW
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