Ada Lovelace and Emily Dickinson - December 10
Ladies First Learning
Sunday, December 10, 2023
Today is Dewey Decimal System Day, Human Rights Day, Jane Addams Day, World Choral Day, and Nobel Prize Day.
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Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Ada Lovelace and Emily Dickinson
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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.
- 1815 - English mathematician and computer scientist Ada Lovelace
- 1830 - Poet Emily Dickinson
- 1851 - Librarian Melvil Dewey, creator of the Dewey Decimal Classification system
- Queen Latifah - Ladies First - LISTEN
- 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
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Victoria, Season 2 - A Woman Mathematician (1:10) - VIEW and DO
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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