Bread - November 17

Friday, November 17, 2023

Today is Homemade Bread Day, Baklava Day, Hiking Day, Substitute Educators 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
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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

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GREAT PERFORMANCES - Making Shakespeare - The First Folio
Friday, 11/17 from 8-9 pm NHPBS
Celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio, which saved 18 plays from being lost. Tracing the First Folio's story, the film also spotlights how New York City's Public Theater presents Shakespeare's work for today's audiences. GREAT PERFORMANCES Streaming Video

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