Thomas Jefferson - April 13

Saturday, April 13, 2024

Today is Scrabble Day, Thomas Jefferson Day, Plant Appreciation Day, and National Peach Cobbler Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day - April is National Poetry Month
Today's Theme: Thomas Jefferson
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ON THIS DATE

• 1598 - King Henry IV of France signs the Edict of Nantes, granting rights to the Protestant Huguenots.
• 1742 - George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah premieres in Dublin, Ireland.
• 1861 - Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces.
• 1870 - Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.
• 1873 - More than 60 Black men are murdered in the Colfax Massacre in Colfax, Louisiana.
• 1943 - The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
• 1964 -  Sidney Poitier becomes the first Black male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.
• 1970 - An oxygen tank aboard the Apollo 13 Service Module explodes.
• 1997 - Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1570 - English soldier Guy Fawkes
• 1743 - 3rd President of the U.S. Thomas Jefferson
• 1769 - English painter Sir Thomas Lawrence
• 1828 - English feminist and social reformer Josephine Butler
• 1854 - Educator Lucy Craft Laney
• 1892 - Scottish engineer Robert Watson-Watt
• 1899 - Game designer (Scrabble) and architect Alfred Mosher Butts
• 1902 - Author Marguerite Henry
• 1906 - Irish novelist, poet, and playwright Samuel Beckett
• 1909 - Novelist and short story writer Eudora Welty
• 1929 - Golfer Marilynn Smith
• 1939 - Irish writer Seamus Heaney
• 9146 - Singer-songwriter Al Green
• 1963 - Russian chess player Garry Kasparov

SONG OF THE DAY 

Al  Green - How Can You Mend a Broken Heart - LISTEN

POEM OF THE DAY 
Lorine Niedecker - Thomas Jefferson

THEME:  THOMAS JEFFERSON

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street: Thomas Jefferson Needs a Quill (4:19) - VIEW
• Grades K-12 - Monticello Digital Classroom - VIEW, READ and DO
• Grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Exploring Monticello (44:04) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Three Presidents - Monroe, Madison, Jefferson Media Gallery - VIEW
• Grades 3-8 - BrainPop - Educator Resources for Thomas Jefferson - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 4-8 - ICivics - Thomas Jefferson Mini-Lesson (need to register as an educator to access) - DO
• Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - 60-Second Presidents - Thomas Jefferson (1:07) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Thomas Jefferson - A Film by Ken Burns  - VIEW
• Grades 6-8 - EDSITEment - Jefferson vs. Franklin: Revolutionary Philosophers Lesson - READ and DO
  
• Grades 8-12 - Crash Course - Jefferson (13:13) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - EDSITEment - Thomas Jefferson and the Sedition Act Lesson - READ and DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Slavery at Jefferson's Monticello: Paradox of Liberty (26:56) - VIEW

WATCH

NH EXPLORE- 11.2 Comcast (11/801) More Options

EVOLUTION EARTH - Earth
Saturday, 4/13 from 11 am-12 pm NH EXPLORE
At Earth's extremes, animals are reacting in surprising ways. Animal homes are changing around them at super speed. Follow remarkable stories of resilience and hope. EVOLUTION EARTH Streaming Video

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE - Flood in the Desert
Saturday, 4/13 from 8-9 pm NH EXPLORE
Explore the 1928 dam collapse, the second deadliest disaster in California history. A colossal engineering failure, the dam was built by William Mulholland to ensure the growth of Los Angeles by bringing water to the city via an aqueduct. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Streaming Video

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE - Surviving the Dust Bowl
Saturday, 4/13 from 9-10 pm NH EXPLORE
They were called "Black Blizzards," dark clouds reaching miles into the sky, churning millions of tons of dirt into torrents of destruction. For ten years beginning in 1930, dust storms ravaged the parched and over-plowed southern plains, turning bountiful wheat fields into deserts. Disease, hardship, and death followed, yet the majority of people stayed on, steadfastly refusing to give up on the land and a way of life. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Streaming Video

NH WORLD - 11.3 More Options

P.O.V. - After Sherman
Saturday, 4/13 from 8-9:30 pm NH WORLD
Filmmaker Jon-Sesrie Goff returns to the coastal South Carolina land that his family purchased after emancipation. His desire to explore his Gullah/Geechee roots leads to a poetic investigation of Black inheritance, trauma, and generational wisdom, amidst the tensions that have shaped American history. In the wake of recent Southern violence, After Sherman is a reclamation of Black life and space. P.O.V. Streaming Video

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