Carl Sandburg - January 6
Poetry Learning
Tuesday, January 6, 2026
Today is Apple Tree Day, National Bean Day, National Shortbread Day, National Take a Poet to Lunch Day, National Take Down the Christmas Tree Day, and National Technology 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
Earl Scruggs and Friends - Foggy Mountain Breakdown - LISTEN
- 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 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Masters - Carl Sandburg: Poet of the People (3:17) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - 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 LearningMedia - 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
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