Tomie dePaola - September 15

Thursday, September 15, 2022

• Today is  8-track Tape Day, Google.com Day, International Day of Democracy, Make a Hat Day, Cheese Toast Day, Online Learning Day, School Backpack Awareness Day, World Lymphoma Awareness Day,  and National Linguini Day.
  
• September is National Square Dancing Month, National Food Safety Education Month, Classical Music Month, Library Card Sign-up Month, National Hispanic Heritage Month, National Save A Tiger Month, College Savings Month, and Be Kind To Editors & Writers Month.
  
  
• Hispanic/Latino Resource of the Day: Latino Americans: Foreigners in Their Own Land - Episode 1
  
  
• Classical Music Resource of the Day: In the Key of Bach

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

• 1835 - The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin, reaches the Galápagos Islands.
• 1935 - The Nuremberg Laws strip 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 - Chapter One - 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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P.O.V. - America
Thursday, 9/15 from 7-8 pm NH WORLD
Diego lives away from his family, where he scrubs wax in a surf shop by day and stilt-walks the malecon by night. He returns home after his grandmother, America, falls from her bed, leading to his father's arrest for elder neglect. P.O.V. Streaming Video

AMERICA REFRAMED - Five Years North
Thursday, 9/15 from 8-9:30 pm NH WORLD
The story of America's immigration system is told through the eyes of Luis and Judy. Luis is an undocumented Guatemalan boy who arrives alone in New York City with little support and many responsibilities. Judy is a veteran ICE agent with Cuban American and Puerto Rican roots, who must weigh the human cost of her work against the future her family would face without her paycheck. AMERICA REFRAMED Streaming Video

HEMINGWAY - The Blank Page (1944-1961)
Thursday, 9/15 from 9-11 pm NHPBS
Hemingway follows the Army as they advance through Europe. Afterwards, he tries to start a life with Mary Welsh, but is beset with tragedies. He publishes The Old Man and the Sea to acclaim but is overcome by his declining mental condition. HEMINGWAY Streaming Video

RUDOLFO ANAYA: THE MAGIC OF WORDS
Thursday, 9/15 from 9:30-10 pm NH WORLD
Rudolfo Anaya was the first Hispanic American writer to achieve major publishing success with his landmark novel, Bless Me, Ultima, in print since 1972. Recipient of the National Medal for the Arts, Anaya has demonstrated a lifelong determination to persevere - through poverty, catastrophic injury, and an almost insurmountable artistic struggle to publish - and in the end, succeed.

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Carla Gordon Russell
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