Political Cartoons - September 27

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Today is Ancestor Appreciation Day, Google's Birthday, Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, National Voter Registration Day, World Tourism Day, and National Chocolate Milk 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: PBS Kids - Spanish Games

Classical Music Resource of the Day:  Classical Rewind

On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  Political Cartoons
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ON THIS DATE

• 1066 - William the Conqueror and his army set sail on their way to conquer England.
• 1962 - Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is published
• 1964 - The  Warren Commission concludes that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassination of JFK.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1722 - Politician Samuel Adams
• 1840 - Political cartoonist Thomas Nast
• 1936 - Soul Train host and producer Don Cornelius
• 1947 - Singer-songwriter Meat Loaf
• 1972 - Actor Gwyneth Paltrow
• 1984 - Singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Meatloaf - I Would Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) - LISTEN
• Avril Lavigne - Complicated - LISTEN

THEME: POLITICAL CARTOONS

• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Political Cartoons in U.S. History Collection - READ, VIEW, DO
  
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Library of Congress - Cartoons Tell the Story - Teaching with Primary Sources - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - National Council of Teachers of English - ReadWriteThink - Thomas Nast - READ and DO
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Somali Filmmaker Counters Terrorist Propaganda with Cartoons (6:10) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 7-12 - Herb Block Foundation - Lesson Plans - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - Daryl Cagle - Political Cartoons Blog - READ
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Experience - Reconstruction - The Second Civil War - Thomas Nast Political Cartoons - READ and VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Experience - War Letters - Photo Gallery: WWII Cartoons - READ and VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - Library of Congress -  Political Cartoons and Public Debates - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - Library of Congress -  Political Cartoons - Finding Point of View - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - Kennedy Library - Drawing Political Cartoons Lesson - DO
• Grades 9-12 - National Council of Teachers of English - ReadWriteThink -Analyzing the Purpose and Meaning of Political Cartoons - DO

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE - Zoot Suit Riots
Tuesday, 9/27 from 9-10 pm NHPBS
In August 1942, the murder of a young Mexican-American man ignited a firestorm in the City of the Angels. In no time at all, ethnic and racial tensions that had been building up over the years boiled over. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Streaming Video

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE - Roberto Clemente
Tuesday, 9/27 from 10-11 pm NHPBS
Born in Puerto Rico, Clemente was an exceptional baseball player and humanitarian whose career sheds light on larger issues of immigration, civil rights and cultural change. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Streaming Video

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NOVA - Ending HIV in America
Tuesday, 9/27 from 7-8 pm NH WORLD
Almost 40 years after the discovery of HIV could we be on the verge of ending the AIDS epidemic in America? How did scientists tackle one of the most elusive deadly viruses to ever infect humans? Can innovative drugs bring new infections to zero? NOVA Streaming Video

NEANDERTHAL - Episode 2
Tuesday, 9/27 from 8-9 pm NH WORLD
Join Ella Al-Shamahi, assisted by Hollywood actor Andy Serkis, as she explores the fate of the Neanderthals, asking why they became extinct and discovering how they live on inside us today. NEANDERTHAL Streaming Video

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