EDSITEment Calendar for July

  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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Born 1908—Thurgood Marshall, first African-American Supreme Court Justice


Oyez Project at Northwestern University (W)

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Franz Kafka
Born 1883—Franz Kafka

Goethe Institute (W)

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Fireworks for Independence Day
Independence Day!

Declare the Causes: The Declaration of Independence (LP)

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Algerian Flag
1962—Algeria declared its independence from France

In My Other Life (LP)

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George Bush
Born 1946—George W. Bush

Like Father Like Son: Presidential Families (LP)

The American President (W)

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Born 1887—Marc Chagall, painter

Introducing Marc Chagall Kennedy Center ArtsEdge (ALA)

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Died 1941—Jazz pianist Jelly Roll Morton


River of Song (W)

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World Population Day
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Henry David Thoreau
Born 1817—Henry David Thoreau
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Born 100 B.C.—Julius Caesar

In Old Pompeii (LP)

VROMA (W)
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Born 1912—Woody Guthrie, folk singer
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Capitol Building
1790—Congress declared Washington, DC, the permanent capital of the U.S.
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1959—Paleontologist Mary Leakey discovered one of the oldest hominid skulls in Tanzania

Kennewick Man (LP)

ArchNet (W)
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John Paul Jones
Died 1792—John Paul Jones, in Paris

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First Women's Right's Convention, Seneca Falls, NY
1848—First Women's Right's Convention, Seneca Falls, NY


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Cultural Change (LP)

Women and Social Movements in the United States
(W)

U.S. Women's History Workshop (W)
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Born 1899—Ernest Hemingway

Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure (W)
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Born 1886—Junichiro Tanizaki, Japanese author

Teaching (and Learning) About Japan (W)

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Died 1946—Gertrude Stein

Academy of American Poets (W)
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Born 1929—Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Remember the Ladies: The First Ladies (LP)
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Born 1919—Primo Levi, author of Survival in Aushchwitz

Holocaust and Resistance (LP)