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April 2006

 
National Poetry Month
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LEGEND:  (W) = Website Feature  (LP) = Lesson Plan (PA) = Picturing America (WTP) = We the People Bookshelf
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1
A Story of Epic Proportions: What makes a Poem an Epic? (LP)

Writing Poetry Like the Pros (LP)

2
1834 Born—Frederic-Auguste Bertholdi, Statue of Liberty sculptor
The Statue of Liberty: The Meaning and Use of a National Symbol (LP)

3
1783 Born—Washington Irving
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (LP)

4
1968—Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dr. King's Dream (LP)

1928 Born—Maya Angelou
Introducing Metaphors Through Poetry (LP)

Academy of American Poets (W)

5
1856 Born—Booker T. Washington
African-American Soldiers After World War I: Had Race Relations Changed? (LP)

American Studies at University of Virginia (W)

Children's Day—S. Korea & Japan
Common Visions, Common Voices (LP)

6
1806 Born—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Victorian Web (W)

1917 US declares war on Germany, enters World War I
Introduction to Modernist Poetry (LP)

Poetry of The Great War: 'From Darkness to Light'? (LP)

7
1770 Born—William Wordsworth
Romantic Circles (W)

1917 Born—Billie Holiday
Jazz and World War II: A Rally to Resistance, A Catalyst for Victory (LP)

Learning the Blues (LP)

8
1935—Works Progress Administration approved by Congress
Worth a Thousand Words: Depression-Era Photographs (LP)

9
Walt Whitman to Langston Hughes:
Poems for a Democracy (LP)

10
1925—F Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby
The “Secret Society” and FitzGerald's The Great Gatsby (LP)

11
1968—Civil Rights Act of 1968
We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement (W)

12
1861—Civil War begins at Fort Sumter in Charleston, SC
Before Brother Fought Brother: Life in the North and South 1847-1861 (LP)

13
1743 Born—Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson vs. Franklin: Renaissance Men (LP)

Jefferson vs. Franklin: Revolutionary Philosophers (LP)

14

15
1843 Born—Henry James
American Collection: An Educator's Site (W)

Born 1452—Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci: Creative Genius (LP)

16
1862 Slavery abolished in District of Columbia
Attitudes Toward Emancipation (LP)

The Poet's Voice:
Langston Hughes and You (LP)

17
1790—Benjamin Franklin, dies at 84
Jefferson vs. Franklin: Renaissance Men (LP)

18
1775—Paul Revere & William Dawes warn "the British are coming!"
Not Only Paul Revere: Other Riders of the American Revolution (LP)

19
1775—Battle of Lexington & Concord—American Revolution
Colonial Broadsides and the American Revolution (LP)

20

21
1816 Born—Charlotte Bronte
Victorian Web (W)

22
1370—Bastille begins being built in Paris France
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution (W)

1451 Born—Isabella I of Castile, Queen of Spain (1479-1504), patron of Columbus
Other Worlds: The Voyages of Columbus (LP)

23
1564 Born—William Shakespeare
1616 Died—William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's Macbeth: Fear and the "Dagger of the Mind" (LP)

Shakespeare's Macbeth:
Fear and the Motives of Evil (LP)

24
1905 Born—Robert Penn Warren
Modern American Poetry (W)

25
1925 Born—Flannery O'Connor
“Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man is Hard to Find': Who's the Real Misfit?” (LP)

Documenting the American South (W)

26
1607—Jamestown colonists land at Cape Henry VA
Virtual Jamestown (W)

Jamestown Changes (LP)

27

28
1926 Born—Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird author
Profiles in Courage: Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (LP)

29
1899 Born—Duke Ellington
JAM: Jazz Appreciation Month (W)

30
1975—End of Vietnam War
Eyewitness to History (LP)