Seneca Falls Convention - July 19
Fighting For Our RIghts Learning
Tuesday, July 19, 2022
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July is National Parks & Recreation Month and National Ice Cream Month.
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Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Seneca Falls Convention
ON THIS DATE
- 64 AD - The Great Fire of Rome begins. It lasts for six days, destroying half the city.
- 1848 - A women's rights convention convenes in Seneca Falls, N.Y.
- 1903 - Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.
- 2005 - President George W. Bush announces he has selected John Roberts to replace Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
- 1817 - Civil War nurse and veterans advocate Mary Ann Bickerdyke
- 1834 - French artist Edgar Degas
- 1860 - Accused murderer Lizzie Borden
- 1875 - Poet and activist Alice Dunbar Nelson
- 1922 - Politician and presidential candidate George McGovern
- 1947 - English musician, Queen guitarist, and astrophysicist Brian May
- 1976 - English actor Benedict Cumberbatch
- Helen Reddy - I Am Woman - LISTEN
- Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - LISTEN
- Beyonce - Run the World (Girls) - LISTEN
Brian May - Love of My Life - LISTEN- Queen - We Will Rock You - LISTEN
THEME: SENECA FALLS CONVENTION
- Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Unstoppable: The Road to Women's Rights - Seneca Falls, NY (6:10) - VIEW
- Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Seneca Falls Convention: The Suffrage Movement Begins (2:51) - Carrie Chapman Catt - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Vote - Seneca Falls Convention (4:15) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Not For Ourselves Alone - Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention (10:16) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Not For Ourselves Alone - Declaration of Sentiments: Close Reading Activity - READ and DO
- Grades 8-12 - Library of Congress - Seneca Falls Convention - READ
- Grades 9-12 - EDSITEment - Closer Readings Commentary - The Declaration of Sentiments by the Seneca Falls Conference (1848) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 9-12 - C-SPAN - Lesson Plan: The Seneca Falls Convention and the Declaration of Sentiments (5:16) - VIEW, READ, DO
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