Dictionaries and Words - October 16

Monday, October 16, 2023

Today is Dictionary Day, World Food Day, Department Store Day, Feral Cat Day, Boss Day, and Clean Your Virtual Desktop Day.

Wild Animal Month Animal Cam of the Day: Bronx Zoo - Canyons Edge Ocean Camera
Dessert of the Month Dessert of the Day: Mary Poppins Zodiac Cake
LGBT History Month Resource of the Day: LGBT History in the Classroom

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

• 1793 - French queen Queen Marie Antoinette is executed.
• 1847 - The novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte is published.
• 1859 - Abolitionist John Brown leads a raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
•  1964 - China detonates its first atomic bomb.
• 1968 - Tommie Smith and John Carlos are ejected from the US Olympic team for giving the Black Power salute during a medal ceremony.
• 1987 -  18-month-old Jessica McClure is rescued from a well in Midland, Texas after 58 hours.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1758 - Lexicographer Noah Webster
• 1854 - Irish writer Oscar Wilde
• 1888 - Playwright  Eugene O'Neill
• 1890 - Irish revolutionary leader Michael Collins
• 1925 - Actor Angela Lansbury
• 1997 - Tennis player Naomi Osaka

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Jimmy Fallon & Jack Black - More Than Words - LISTEN
• The Beatles - Words Of Love - LISTEN
• The Bangles - Manic Monday - LISTEN
• The Mamas and the Papas - Monday Monday - LISTEN

THEME: DICTIONARIES AND WORDS

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Words Are All Around Us (3:20) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia -Vocabulary Words: Graphic Organizers (Available in Spanish) - PRINT AND DO
• Grades 1-4 - PBS LearningMedia - No Nonsense Grammar - How to Use Reference Materials (0:46) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 1-5 - PBS LearningMedia - No Nonsense Grammar - Using Reference Materials to Correctly Spell Words (0:40) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-8 - ReadWriteThink - Using a Word Journal to Create a Personal Dictionary - DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Global Oneness Project - Marie's Dictionary (Available in Spanish) (9:35) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Articulate - Kory Stamper: Word By Word (9:30) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - ReadWriteThink - Brave New Words: Novice Lexicography and the Oxford English Dictionary - DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - University Place - UW's Dictionary of American Regional English (49:21) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - University Place - Dictionary of American Regional English, Vol. 6 - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video -  Chicago Tonight -The Story of Ain't (8:05) - VIEW

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THE AMERICAN BUFFALO - Blood Memory
Monday, 10/16 from 8-10 pm NHPBS
The dramatic story of how America's national mammal, which sustained the lives of Native people, was driven to the brink of extinction. Ken Burns recounts the tragic collision of two opposing views of the natural world. THE AMERICAN BUFFALO Streaming Video and Resources
NH PBS LearningMedia Classroom Resources

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AMERICAN MASTERS - Buddy Guy: The Blues Chase the Blues Away
Monday, 10/16 from 2-3:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE
Dive into the career of the legendary blues guitarist, a pioneer of Chicago's West Side sound and major influence on rock titans like Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton. AMERICAN MASTERS - Buddy Guy Preview and Extras Streaming Video

Pressroom Contact

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