Carl Sandburg - January 6

Saturday, January 6, 2024

Today is National Technology Day, National Shortbread Day, and National Bean Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Carl Sandburg

ON THIS DATE

• 1912 - New Mexico becomes the 47th state.
• 1912 - German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
• 1941 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms speech. 
• 1994 - Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg.
• 2001 - Congress certifies George W. Bush as the winner of the  2000 presidential election.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1412 - French martyr Joan of Arc
• 1655 - Swiss mathematician Jakob Bernoulli
• 1878 - Poet Carl Sandburg
• 1924 - Musician Earl Scruggs
• 1984 - Actor and comedian Kate McKinnon

SONG OF THE DAY 

• Earl Scruggs - Foggy Mountain Breakdown - LISTEN
  

THEME:  Carl Sandburg

• Grades 3-5 - National Park Service Carl Sandburg National Historic Site - "Fog" Lesson Plan - READ and DO
• Grades 5-12 - Academy of American Poets - Carl Sandburg - READ
• Grades 5-12 - Poetry Foundation - Carl Sandburg - READ
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Poetry in America - Skyscraper (7:46) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearingMedia - American Masters - Carl Sandburg: Poet of the People (3:17) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearingMedia - American Masters - Sandburg and Lincoln (5:57)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Masters - The People, Yes (6:19) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearingMedia - American Masters - The Day Carl Sandburg Died (4:28) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Alistair Cooke Interview with Frank Lloyd Wright and Carl Sandburg (26:18) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - EDSITEment - Carl Sandburg's "Chicago": Bringing a Great City Alive Lesson Plan - READ ad DO

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