Louisa May Alcott - November 29
Little Women Learning
Saturday, November 29, 2025
Today is Lemon Crème Pie Day, Throw Out Your Leftovers Day, and Square Dancing Day.
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Louisa May Alcott
AMERICAN REVOLUTION HISTORY ON THIS DATE
- 1729 - Founding Father of the United States and secretary of the Continental Congress, Charles Thomson, was born on this day in 1729.
- 1776 – During the American Revolutionary War, the Battle of Fort Cumberland, Nova Scotia, comes to an end with the arrival of British reinforcements.
ON THIS DATE
- 1963 - Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
- 1963 - "I Want to Hold Your Hand" is released by the Beatles.
- 1972 - Atari releases the video game, Pong.
- 1803 - Austrian mathematician and physicist Christian Doppler
- 1832 - Author Louisa May Alcott
- 1876 - Politician and educator Nellie Tayloe Ross
- 1898 - British author C. S. Lewis
- 1918 - Author Madeleine L'Engle
- 1954 - Director and screenwriter Joel Coen
- 1976 - Actor Chadwick Boseman
- Grades 5-12 - Masterpiece - Little Woman - VIEW
- Grades 6-9 - PBS LearningMedia - American Masters - Louisa May Alcott: Becoming a Writer (1:36) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-9 - PBS LearningMedia - American Masters - Louisa May Alcott: An Iconic Character (2:29) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-9 - PBS LearningMedia - American Masters - Louisa May Alcott: Defying Convention (2:58) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Masters - Louisa May Alcott: Transcendentalism (4:00) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Masters - Louisa May Alcott: The Civil War (4:34) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - The House of Little Women (1:59) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - The Real Jo March (1:34) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Greta Gerwig Discusses Her Adaptation of "Little Women" (19:07) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - The Historic Real-life House That Inspired 'Little Women' (6:23) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - The Great American Read - Little Women (3:27) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - It's Lit - Why We Still Love Little Women, 150 Years Later (9:37) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Almanac - What Killed the Author of Little Women? (4:48) - VIEW
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