EDSITEment Calendar for April, 2001
 National Poetry Month


  A collection of peer-reviewed websites and EDSITEment lesson plans covering holidays and special events.
   Calendar Archive  
 LEGEND:  (W) = Website Feature (LP) = Lesson Plan (ALA) = Additional Learning Activity   * = This Month's Activity
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Easter Egg Hunt - Courtesy The American President
1877—1st Easter egg roll on White House lawn

The American President (W)
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Washington Irving
1783—Birthday of Washington Irving

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (LP)
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
1968—Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

*Dr. King's Dream (W)
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1588—Birthday of Thomas Hobbes

Episteme Links (W)
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Pershing
1917—United States enters World War I

Great War Primary Documents Archive (W)

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Confederate Surrender
1865—End of Civil War

Valley of the Shadow (W)
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*Academy of American Poets (W)
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1968—Civil Rights Law Signed

We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement (W)
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1861—Attack on Fort Sumter. Civil War begins

Crisis at Fort Sumter (W)
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Thomas Jefferson
1743—Birthday of Thomas Jefferson

Declare the Causes: The Declaration of Independence (LP)

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1862—Congress abolishes slavery in the District of Columbia

Africans in America (W)
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*Practical Criticism (LP)
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1906—San Francisco Earthquake

American Memory: Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire (W)
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Holocaust Rememberance Day

Holocaust and Resistance (LP)
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*Can You Haiku? (LP)
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1956—US Supreme Court ends segregation on buses
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1800—John Adams approves book purchase to establish the Library of Congress

American Memory (W)

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Shakespeare

Teaching Shakespeare (W)
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A Medieval Kiss
1564—Shakespeare baptized

*"You Kiss by the Book" Romeo and Juliet (LP)
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*Mr. William Shakespeare on the Internet (W)

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1789—George Washington delivers first inaugural address

Papers of George Washington (W)
Additional Poetry Lesson Plans:
Chaucer’s Wife of Bath

I Do Solemnly Swear: Presidential Inaugurations
Learning the Blues
A Storybook Romance: Dante’s Paolo and Francesca
A Trip to Wonderland
World of Haiku
Additional Poetry Learning Activities:
Labyrinth: Pedagogical Resources: Online Courses & Course Materials
Digital Dante
Mr. William Shakespeare & the Internet: A Shakespeare Timeline
Victorian Web: How to Read a Poem
Victorian Web: The Tropes