EDSITEment Calendar for June

  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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1924—Indian Citizenship Act:

"Not 'Indians,' Many Tribes: Native American Diversity" (LP)
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1800—First Family in the White House: John & Abigail Adams"

Picturing First Families (LP)

The American President (W)
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1851—Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, appears in serial form

Documents of Civil War Women (W)
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Gwendolyn Brooks
1917—Poet Gwendolyn Brooks born

Academy of American Poets (W)
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1789—James Madison proposed the Bill of Rights

"Regulating Freedom of Speech" (LP)
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Anne Frank
1929—Anne Frank born

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (W)
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American Flag
1777—Continental Congress adopts design of American Flag

Flag Day on American Memory (W)
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1933—Franklin Roosevelt opens his New Deal program

"The New Deal Network" (W)
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1885: The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York Harbor from France

The Statue of Liberty: The Meaning and Use of a National Symbol (LP)

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Martha Washington
1731—Martha Washington born on this day

National First Ladies Library (W)
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1945—UN Charter Day

The United Nations (W)
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1914—Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Sarajevo; WWI begins

Great War Primary Documents Archive (W)
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1613—The Globe Theater burns down during a performance of Shakespeare's Henry VIII

Teaching Shakespeare (W)
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