Bread - November 17

Sunday, November 17, 2024

Today is Homemade Bread Day, Baklava Day, Hiking Day, and Little Mermaid Day.

Native American Heritage Month Resource - PBS Food - Native American Fry Bread
Drum Resource of the Day - Beat Making Lab - Get Your Drums Right

On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Bread

ON THIS DATE

• 1558 - Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England.
• 1800 - U.S. Congress holds its first session in Washington, D.C.
• 1869 - The Suez Canal opens in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean and the Red seas.
• 1947 - The Screen Actors Guild institutes an anti-Communist loyalty oath.
• 1973 - President Richard Nixon states "I am not a crook" to a group of 400 Associated Press managing editors.
• 2019 - The first known case of COVID-19 is traced to a  man who had visited a market in Wuhan, China.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1901 - Director and method acting pioneer Lee Strasberg
• 1916 - Historian and author Shelby Foote
• 1925 - Actor Rock Hudson
• 1938 - Canadian musician Gordon Lightfoot
• 1942 - Director Martin Scorsese
• 1960 - TV host and performer RuPaul
• 1966 - Singer Jeff Buckley

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Bread - It Don't Matter to Me - LISTEN
  
• Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - LISTEN
• Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah  - LISTEN

THEME:  BREAD

• Grades PreK-K - NHPBS LearningMedia - Let's Share a Story: "Fry Bread" (12:24) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-K - NHPBS LearningMedia - Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood - Imagination Moment: Baking Banana Bread (2:21) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Snack Hacks - Bunny Bread (1:00) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Between the Lions - Making Bread (4:00) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Quest - Secrets of Sourdough (8:04) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Sourdough Bread is a Microbial Mystery (6:23) - VIEW

Pressroom Contact

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