Literary Learning
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Today is Black Poetry Day, Pasta Day, Spreadsheet Day, and Wear Something Gaudy Day.
Wild Animal Month Animal Cam of the Day: San Diego Zoo Safari Park Tiger Cam
Spooky Dessert of the Day: Mummy Chocolate-Covered Strawberries
LGBT History Month Resource of the Day: The LGBTQ Movement and the Stonewall Uprising
On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: BLACK POETS
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ON THIS DATE
BIRTHDAYS
SONGS OF THE DAY
- Maya Angelou - Calypso Heat Wave - LISTEN
THEME: BLACK POETS
GENERAL
- Grades 10-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Passages - Rhythms in Poetry - VIEW
MAYA ANGELOU
- Grades K-1 - Sesame Street - Maya Angelou's Name Song - VIEW
- Grades K-1 - Sesame Street - Maya Angelou's Favorite Things - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Experience - Maya Angelou and the 1993 Inaugural Poem: “On the Pulse of Morning” (4:52) - VIEW, READ, DO
AMANDA GORMAN
- Grades K-4 - PBS KIDS - Amanda Gorman - Talking Gets Us There - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS VIdeo - Amanpour and Company - Amanda Gorman, Activist, and National Youth Poet Laureate (15:24) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS VIdeo - PBS NewsHour - Poet Amanda Gorman on how she prepared for Inauguration Day (6:09) - VIEW
LANGSTON HUGHES
- Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - A Walk Through Harlem -Symbolism in "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (0:58) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Poetry in America - Langston Hughes - Harlem (5:51) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - Langston Hughes on Trial (4:39) - VIEW
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Poetry in America - Gwendolyn Brooks - To Prisoners (5:56) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Gwendolyn Brooks: The Creative Person (1966) (29:09) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Gwendolyn Brooks: Still ‘Real Cool’ at 100 (5:16) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Gwendolyn Brooks Reads "We Real Cool" (5:46) - VIEW
RITA DOVE
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Weekly Poem: Rita Dove Reads 'Chocolate' (0:37) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Rita Dove - "American Smooth" (1:06) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Rita Dove Interview (7:36) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Book View Now - Rita Dove Interview (18:43) - VIEW
LUCILLE CLIFTON
- Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Poetry Everywhere - Lucille Clifton - "won't you celebrate with me" (0:46) - VIEW, READ, DO
KWAME DAVIS
- Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Poetry Everywhere - Kwame Dawes - "Tornado Child" (1:46) - VIEW, READ, DO
YUSEF KONUNYAKAA
- Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Poetry Everywhere - Yusef Komunyakaa - "Facing It" (1:18) - VIEW, READ, DO
NIKKI GIOVANNI
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Overheard with Evan Smith - Nikki Giovanni (26:46) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Write Around the Corner - Nikki Giovanni (27:56) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Nikki Giovanni reads ‘The Lost Cause ... Lost’ (1:07) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Write Around the Corner - A Continued Conversation with Nikki Giovanni (29:53) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Nikki Giovanni On Poetry & Truth (58:49) - VIEW
NIKKY FINNEY
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Connections - Poet Nikky Finney (26:42) - VIEW
CLAUDI RANKINE
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Book View Now - Claudia Rankine on Citizen: An American Lyric (9:14) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Author Claudia Rankine Answers Questions About ‘Citizen’ (5:59)- VIEW
AUDRA LORDE
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Audre Lorde (6:33) - VIEW and DO
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THE AMERICAN BUFFALO - Into the Storm
Tuesday, 10/17 from 8-10 pm NHPBS
By the late 1880s, the buffalo that once numbered in the tens of millions is teetering on the brink of extinction. But a diverse and unlikely collection of Americans start a movement that rescues the national mammal from disappearing forever. THE AMERICAN BUFFALO Streaming Video and Resources
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