Rice and Donald Hall - September 20

Friday, September 20, 2024

Today is Fried Rice Day, Pepperoni Pizza Day, String Cheese Day, Rum Punch Day, Concussion Awareness Day, and National Gibberish Day.

• Hispanic/Latino Resource of the Day: Simple Civics - Hispanic Leaders
• Classical Music Resource of the Day: Sesame Street - People in Your Neighborhood - Conductor

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  RICE and DONALD HALL

ON THIS DATE

• 1946 - The first Cannes Film Festival is held.
• 1962 - The University of Mississippi bars James Meredith from entering because he is Black.
• 1973 - Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes tennis match.
• 1973 - Singer Jim Croce and five others die when their plane crashes on takeoff at Natchitoches Regional Airport in Louisiana.
• 2001 - President George W. Bush declares a "War on Terror" in an address to a joint session of Congress.
• 2011 - The United States military ends its "Don't ask, don't tell" policy.
• 2017 -  Hurricane Maria makes landfall in Puerto Rico, leading to nearly 3,000 deaths and over 90 billion dollars in damages.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1898 - Writer Upton Sinclair
• 1917 - Basketball coach Red Auerbach
• 1928 - Poet and NH resident Donald Hall
• 1934 - Actor Sophia Loren
• 1948 - Writer George R. R. Martin
• 1951 - Hockey player Guy Lafleur

SONG OF THE DAY 

• Jim Croce - Time in a Bottle - LISTEN
  
• Jim Croce - Bad Bad Leroy Brown - LISTEN

THEME: RICE

• Grades K-5 - PBS Parents - Let's Go Luna - Make Three Kid-Friendly Rice Dishes: Rice and Beans from Mexico (2:00) -  VIEW and DO
• Grades K-5 - PBS Parents - Let's Go Luna - Make Three Kid-Friendly Rice Dishes: Jambalaya from New Orleans, USA (2:00) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-5 - PBS Parents - Let's Go Luna - Make Three Kid-Friendly Rice Dishes: Onigiri Rice Balls from Japan (2:00)- VIEW and DO
• Grades 2-4 - Crayola - RIce is All Around Us - DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Reactions - Fact or Fiction: Uncooked Rice is Bad for Birds (4:29) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - PBS NewsHour - Can New Rice Improve Health in the Philippines? (8:24) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Earth and Sky Podcast - Pamela Ronald Has Developed a More Flood-Tolerant Rice (1:30) - LISTEN
• Grades 7-12 - Nova - Miracle of Rice - READ
• Grades 7-12 - EDSITEment - BackStory: What’s Cooking? A History of Food in America PodCast - LISTEN (Rice:16:30-25:20 mark)
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Learning Media - America's Heartland  - Harvesting Rice (2:57) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - A Chef's Life - Amber Waves of Grain - VIEW (24:40)

THEME: DONALD HALL

• Grades K-12 - Donald Hall Reads Ox-Cart Man (1:34) - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - Lorne Green Reads Ox-Cart Man (6:56) - VIEW
• Grades 2-3 - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - Ox-Cart Man Lesson - DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Donald Hall Saw Poetry As a School For Learning (3:14) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Media Meet - Poet Laureate Donald Hall (29:05) - VIEW
  
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - NH Authors - Donald Hall (26:45) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - Poetry Foundation - Donald Hall - READ
• Grades 7-12 - Academy of American Poets - READ
• Grades 7-12 - Library of Congress - Donald Hall - READ

Pressroom Contact

Carla Gordon Russell
Director of Communications
crussell@nhpbs.org
(603) 868-4339