Sherlock Holmes and Mary Cassatt - May 22

Elementary (and Middle and High School) Learning, My Dear Watson

Friday, May 22, 2026

Today is Canadian Immigrants Day, Buy a Musical Instrument Day, Maritime Day, Solitaire Day, Vanilla Pudding Day, Sherlock Holmes Day, and World Goth Day.

May is Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day
Today's Theme: Sherlock Holmes and Mary Cassatt
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Resource of the Day

AMERICAN REVOLUTION HISTORY ON THIS DATE

1755 – Birthday of economist and delegate to Constitutional Convention, Tench Coxe, known as "Mr. Facing Both Ways".

ON THIS DATE

1804 - The Lewis and Clark Expedition begins.
1819 - SS Savannah leaves Savannah, Georgia, on a journey that will make it the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
1849 - Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to lift boats, making him the only U.S. president ever to hold a patent.
1856 - Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate over a speech Sumner gave about slavery in the South.
1900 - The Associated Press is formed.
1906 - The Wright brothers are granted a patent for their "Flying-Machine."
1927 - An 8.3 magnitude near Xining, China, kills 200,000.
1968 - The nuclear-powered submarine USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard.
1992 - Johnny Carson hosts his last Tonight Show.
2002 - A jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murder of four girls in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.
2011 - An EF5 tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri, killing 158.
2017 - Twenty-two people were killed in a bombing at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England.

BIRTHDAYS

1813 - German composer Richard Wagner
1844 - Painter Mary Cassatt
1959 - Scottish author Arthur Conan Doyle
1907 - English actor Laurence Olivier
1930 - Politician Harvey Milk
1950 - English songwriter Bernie Taupin
1959 - English singer-songwriter Morrissey
1960 - Japanese animator and director Hideaki Anno

SONGS OF THE DAY

Elvis Costello - Watching the Detectives - LISTEN
The Monkees - Mary Mary - LISTEN
Elton John - Tiny Dancer (Lyrics by Bernie Taupin) - LISTEN
Morrissey - Everyday is Like Sunday - LISTEN
Richard Wagner - Ride of the Valkyries - LISTEN

POEM OF THE DAY
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Retrospect

ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER RESOURCE OF THE DAY
NHPBS LearningMedia - Asian Americans in the Arts

THEME: Sherlock Holmes

Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Sherlock Hemlock Helps Maria (2:43) - VIEW
Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Ernlock Holmes (5:13) - VIEW
Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Ernie's Half-Eaten Sandwich (3:03) - VIEW
Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Lakeshore Classic Movies - Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942) (1:08:04) - VIEW
Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Lakeshore Classic Movies - Terror By Night (1946) (59:33) - VIEW
Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Hound of the Baskervilles 1: Meet Sherlock Holmes (1:47) - VIEW, READ, DO
Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia -The Hound of the Baskervilles 2: The Mysterious Moor (2:05) - VIEW, READ, DO
Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Hound of the Baskervilles 3: The Seance (1:54) - VIEW, READ, DO
Grades 6-8 - ReadWriteThink - Expository Escapade - Detective's Handbook Lesson Plan - READ and DO
Grades 9-12 - ReadWriteThink - Investigating Genre: The Case of the Classic Detective Story Lesson Plan - READ and DO

THEME: Mary Cassatt

Grades K-1 - NHPBS Video - Reading Explorers - Mary Cassatt (14:14) - VIEW
Grades K-4 - National Gallery of Art - Art Starters - Mary Cassatt - DO
Grades 5-12 - National Gallery of Art - Mary Cassatt - READ and VIEW
Grades 5-12 - PBS Learning Media - Kentucky Virtual Art Museum - L'Enfant (The Child), 1905 - READ and DO
Grades 7-12 - Mary Cassatt: A Brush with Independence (56:20) - VIEW

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