Migrants - December 18

Monday, December 18, 2023

Today is Answer The Telephone Like Buddy The Elf Day, Arabic Language Day, International Migrants Day, Flake Appreciation Day, Bake Cookies Day, Twin Day, and Ham Salad Day.

Winter Resource of the Day: Young Explorers - Geometric Snowflake: Wander & Wonder

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Migrants
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ON THIS DATE

• 1892 - Premiere performance of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
• 1915 - President Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Bolling Galt.
• 1958 - The U.S. launches the first communications satellite, Telstar I.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1707 - English hymn composer and missionary Charles Wesley
• 1860 - Pianist and composer Edward MacDowell
• 1878 - Russian premier Joseph Stalin
• 1879 - German artist Paul Klee
• 1886 - Baseball player Ty Cobb
• 1943 - English musician Keith Richards
• 1946 - South African activist Steve Biko
• 1946 - Director Steven Spielberg
• 1963 - Actor Brad Pitt
• 1980 - Singer-songwriter Christina Aguilera
• 2001 - Singer-songwriter Billie Eilish

SONG OF THE DAY 

• Woody Guthrie - I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore - LISTEN

THEME:  Migrants

• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Dust Bowl - The Okies Collection - VIEW and DO
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearingMedia - American Masters - Migrant Mother: Dorothea Lange (3:23) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - The Art Assignment - Whose Migrant Mother Was This? (10:59) - VIEW
• Grade 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Wide Angle - Migrant Workers (3:10) - VIEW
  
• Grade 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Wide Angle - Migrant Workers and Social Justice (3:10) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The African Americans - Life After Emancipation Proclamation Great Migration (4:32) - VIEW
• Grades 10-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Experience - The Swamp - Impact of 1928 Hurricane on Everglades Migrant Workers (6:01) - VIEW

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