Poetry and Loretta Lynn - October 5

Wednesday, October 5, 2021

Today is Global James Bond Day, National Storytelling Day, World Teacher's Day, and Random Acts of Poetry Day.

October is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Month, Down Syndrome Awareness Month, Dyslexia Awareness Month, Health Literacy Month, Pizza Month, National Dessert Month, National AIDS Awareness Month, Country Music Month, LGBT History Month, Bat Appreciation Month, World Animal Month, Bullying Prevention Month, and Raptor Month.

Animal Cam of the Day:  Smithsonian National Zoo Lion Cam

Dessert of the Day: Button Cup Tarts with Homemade Almond Milk

LGBT History Resource of the Day:  American Experience: Milestones in the American Gay Rights Movement

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

• 1789 - The Women's March on Versailles effectively ends royal authority.
• 1938 - Jewish passports are invalidated in Nazi Germany.
• 1943 - Ninety-eight American POWs are executed by the Japanese on Wake Island.
• 1947 - President Truman makes the first televised Oval Office address.
• 1962 - The first James Bond theatrical feature, "Dr. No" starring Sean Connery as Agent 007, premiered in London.
  
• 1969 - "Monty Python's Flying Circus" debuts on BBC Television

BIRTHDAYS

• 1709 - Revivalist preacher Jonathan Edwards
• 1817 - British author and herpetologist Catherine Cooper Hopley
• 1829 - 21st President  Chester A. Arthur
• 1922 - Cartoonist Bil Keane
• 1928 - Harriet the Spy author Louise Fitzhugh
• 1936 - Czech poet, playwright, and 1st president of the Czech Republic Václav Havel
• 1943 - Singer-songwriter Steve Miller
• 1958 - Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson
• 1959- Architect Maya Lin

SONG OF THE DAY 

• Steve Miller Band - Fly Like an Eagle - LISTEN
  
• Loretta Lynn - Ain't No Time To Go  - LISTEN

THEME: POETRY

• Grades: PreK-1 -NHPBS LearningMedia - Sesame Street - Sons of Poetry- VIEW and RHYME
  
• Grades: PreK-1 -  Sesame Street - Big Bird's Sun Poem - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Poetry Everywhere Collection - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Poetry in America Collection - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Masters - Elements of Poetry - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - Annenberg Learner - Voices and Visions (13 American Poets) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - Annenberg Learner - American Passages: A Literary Survey - VIEW
• Professional Development - Annenberg Learner - Write in the Middle: A Workshop for Middle School Teachers - Teaching Poetry (58:15) - VIEW, READ, DO

THEME: LORETTA LYNN

• Grades: PreK-12 - Sesame Street - Loretta Lynn and the Count Sing Count On Me (3:48)  - VIEW
  
• Grades: 5-12 -  NHPBS LearningMedia - Ken Burns In the Classroom - Country Music - Writing the Truth: Loretta Lynn's Coal Miner's Daughter - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - American Masters - Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty (2:59) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Austin City Limits Hall of Fame 2015  - Loretta Lynn  (3:50) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Austin City Limits Hall of Fame 2015  - Patty Loveless: Coal Miner's Daughter  (3:13) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Austin City Limits Hall of Fame 2015  - Vince Gill and Patty Loveless:  "After the Fire is Gone"  (3:16) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Austin City Limits - Loretta Lynn: "Coal Miner's Daughter"  (3:13) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Loretta Lynn: My Story in My Words (56:39) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Loretta Lynn's First Birthday Party at 87 (8:44) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - American Masters - Loretta Lynn: Still a Country Girl (1:53:14) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - American Masters - Loretta Lynn: Lyricist and Songwriter (2:33) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - American Masters - Loretta Lynn's Gowns (1:58) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - American Masters - Why Loretta Lynn Wrote "You Ain't Woman Enough" (1;14) - VIEW
• Grades 8-12 - NHPBS Video - American Masters - Loretta Lynn Wrote for Women - Her Song "The Pill" (2:15) - VIEW

Watch 

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RIVERS OF LIFE - Danube
Wednesday, 10/05 from 8-9 pm NHPBS
Europe's mighty and majestic Danube, full of glorious riches and magical surprises, is the world's most international river. See how its epic journey is like no other - featuring stunning secret tributaries, baby turtles, and a waterfall-riding kayaker. RIVERS OF LIFE Streaming Video

NOVA - Ending HIV In America
Wednesday, 10/05 from 9-10 pm NHPBS
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

RICOCHET: AN AMERICAN TRAUMA
Wednesday, 10/05 from 10-11 pm NHPBS
Examine the U.S. gun violence crisis and the people it impacts with NewsHour correspondent William Brangham. Understand deeply personal stories from shooting victims and their loved ones, community leaders, gun owners, and front-line health workers.

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THE U.S. AND THE HOLOCAUST - The Homeless, The Tempest Tossed (1942- )
Wednesday, 10/5 from 2-4:12 pm NHPBS EXPLORE
A group of dedicated government officials fights red tape to support rescue operations. As the Allies liberate German camps, the public sees for the first time the sheer scale of the Holocaust and begins to reckon with its reverberations. THE U.S. AND THE HOLOCAUST Streaming Video

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CIVILIZATIONS - Color and Light
Wednesday, 10/5 from 2-3 pm NH WORLD
Explore the story of light and color in art both in the search for greater realism and spiritual ecstasy. Journey from Gothic cathedrals and Indian courtly painting to modern art. CIVILIZATIONS Streaming Video

CIVILIZATIONS - The Cult of Progress
Wednesday, 10/5 from 3-4 pm NH WORLD
Examine the rise and fall of "progress" as an ideology, and see how the "civilizing" project that arose from Enlightenment ideas was fraught with contradictions that troubled European artists in different ways. CIVILIZATIONS Streaming Video

CIVILIZATIONS - What is art (Good For) ?
Wednesday, 10/5 from 4-5 pm NH WORLD
Survey the history of art, from antiquity to the present, on a global scale. Programs reveal the role art and creative imagination have played in forging humanity, and introduce viewers to works of beauty, ingenuity, and illumination across cultures. CIVILIZATIONS Streaming Video

P.O.V. - The Infiltrators
Wednesday, 10/5 from 7-830 pm NH WORLD
Meet two young immigrants who get purposefully arrested by Border Patrol and put in a shadowy for-profit detention center. Marco and Viri, members of a group of radical Dreamers, believe the best place to stop deportations is in detention. P.O.V. Streaming Video

Pressroom Contact

Carla Gordon Russell
Director of Communications
crussell@nhpbs.org
(603) 868-4339