Ada Lovelace and Emily Dickinson - December 10

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Today is Dewey Decimal System Day, Human Rights Day, Jane Addams Day, and Nobel Prize Day.

Winter Resource of the Day: 30 Sunsets - Summer to Winter

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Ada Lovelace and Emily Dickinson

ON THIS DATE

• 1768 - The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.
• 1817 - Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.
• 1884 - Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.
• 1906 - President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first American awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in ending the Russo-Japanese War.
• 1948 - The U.N. General Assembly adopted its Universal Declaration on Human Rights.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1815 - English mathematician and computer scientist Ada Lovelace
• 1830 - Poet Emily Dickinson
• 1851 - Librarian Melvil Dewey, creator of the Dewey Decimal Classification system

SONG OF THE DAY 

• Queen Latifah - Ladies First - LISTEN

THEME:  ADA LOVELACE

• Grades 4-12 - BBC  - Newsround - Who Was Ada Lovelace? - READ
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Visionaries: Ada Lovelace (1:21) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - Computer History Museum - Ada Lovelace - READ 

THEME:  EMILY DICKINSON

• Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Poetry Everywhere - I started Early-Took my Dog (1:33) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12- PBS LearningMedia - American Passages - Gothic Undercurrents (28:23) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS  NewsHour - Finding Emily Dickinson in the Power of Her Poetry (6:15) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS Books - Trailblazing Women: Emily Dickinson and Poetry in America Panel Discussion (1:03:47) - VIEW

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