April 2009

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LEGEND:  (W) = Website Feature  (LP) = Lesson Plan

  
1

Wednesday

A Story of Epic Proportions: What makes a Poem an Epic? (LP)

Writing Poetry Like the Pros (LP)

1873 Born - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian pianist and composer
New York Philaharmonic Kid Zone (W)
2

Thursday

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

1805 Born - Hans Christian Anderson, fairy tale author
Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales (LP)
3

Friday

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

1948 President Harry S. Truman signed into law the European Recovery Program (known as the Marshall Plan)
Origins of the Cold War Unit (LP)
4

Saturday

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

Academy of American Poets (W)

1968—Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dr. King's Dream (LP)
5

Sunday

1614 John Rolfe and Pocahontas married in the English colony of Jamestown, Virginia
Images of the New World (LP)

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


Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington  (LP)

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

American Studies at University of Virginia (W)
6

Monday

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

Tuesday

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

Wednesday

1935—Works Progress Administration approved by Congress
Worth a Thousand Words: Depression-Era Photographs (LP)
9

Thursday

1812 Born—Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire: The Poet of Sickness and Evil (LP)

Walt Whitman to Langston Hughes:
Poems for a Democracy (LP)
10

Friday

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

1933 - Civilian Conservation Corp established by FDR
African-Americans and the New Deal's Civilian Conservation Corps (ALA)
11

Saturday

1968—Civil Rights Act of 1968
We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement (W)
12

Sunday

1633 Galileo Galilei was put on trial by the Inquisition
Galileo and the Inevitability of Ideas (LP)

1861—Civil War begins at Fort Sumter in Charleston, SC
Before Brother Fought Brother: Life in the North and South 1847-1861 (LP)
13

Monday

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

Jefferson vs. Franklin: Revolutionary Philosophers (LP)

1939 Born - Seamus Heaney, Irish poet
 (ALA)
14

Tuesday


Picture Lincoln  (LP)


Picturing America (PA) (ALA)

President Lincoln is shot.
HarpWeek (W)
15

Wednesday

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

Born 1452—Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci: Creative Genius (LP)
16

Thursday

1947 The term "Cold War" is coined by Bernard Baruch
The Origins of the Cold War (LP) (ALA)

The Poet's Voice:
Langston Hughes and You (LP)
17

Friday

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

1897 Thornton Wilder born
Thorton Wilder's Our Town: the Reader as Writer (ALA)
18

Saturday

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


Midnight Ride of Paul Revere: Fact, Fiction, and Artistic License (LP)


Picturing America (PA) (ALA)
19

Sunday

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

1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Holocaust and Resistance (LP)
20

Monday

1841 First detective story published by Edgar Allen Poe "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
Lesson: Edgar Allen Poe, Ambrose Bierce and the Unreliable Narrator (LP)
21

Tuesday

1816 Born—Charlotte Bronte
Victorian Web (W)


Introducing Jane Eyre: An Unlikely Victorian Heroine (LP)

753 B.C. Rome Founded
Virtual Rome (W) (ALA)
22

Wednesday

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)

1873 Writer Ellen Glasgow is born
Documenting the American South (ALA)
23

Thursday

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)


William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream: Conflict Resolution and Happy Endings (LP)
24

Friday

1800 Library of Congress established
Library of Congress(W) (ALA)

1947 Willa Cather dies
Pioneer Values in Willa Cather's My Antonia (LP)
25

Saturday

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)

1918 Born—Ella Fitzgerald, "first lady of song"
Jazz and World War II: A Rally to Resistance, A Catalyst for Victory (LP)
26

Sunday

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

Jamestown Changes (LP)

121 A.D. Born - Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor and author of philosophical work Meditations
 (ALA)
27

Monday

1791 Born—Samuel Morse, inventor of the first operational telegraph system.
The National Gallery of Art (W)
28

Tuesday

1758 James Monroe born
The Monroe Doctrine: Origins & Early American Foreign Policy (L) (ALA)

1926 Born—Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird author
Profiles in Courage: Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (LP)
29

Wednesday

1899 Born—Duke Ellington
JAM: Jazz Appreciation Month (W)
30

Thursday

1789 George Washington was sworn in as the first President of the United States of America
George Washington: The Precedent President (LP)

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