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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  July 16
   African American journalist Ida B. Wells was born in 1862.
   Students brainstorm a list of human rights issues, research their group's issue in depth, examine the way journalists cover a story, and create articles for a classroom newspaper.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  March 6
   Author Gabriel García Márquez was born on this day.
   Students take place in a collaborative creative writing activity to begin to understand the hallmarks of the literary style known as magical realism.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  March 24
   Cat on a Hot Tin Roof premiered in New York in 1955.
   Students are introduced to the characteristics of drama, read a chapter from a novel the class has read, and create a script from the chapter that they will present to the class.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  July 18
   Celebrate Mandela Day today.
   After reading Kadir Nelson's Nelson Mandela, students explore the Mandela Day website before using an online tool to start working on a service project of their own.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 4
   Celebrate National Library Week!
   Students learn more about libraries as part of National Library Week.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  September 17
   Constitution Day is observed today in the U.S.
   Students explore an annotated online version of the Constitution before sharing what they learned about one aspect of the document through the Trading Card interactive.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  March 31
   César Chávez was born on this day in 1927.
   Students work in small groups to research a civil rights leader and do a creative writing piece, followed by a short story, with their group.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  January 23
   Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in the US to earn a MD degree in 1849.
   "Famous Firsts" are researched by students, followed by small group research and multimedia presentations to report research results.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  November 8
   In 1847, Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula was born.
   Students brainstorm the superstitions they know and small groups research one of the superstitions to determine its origin and meaning or purpose. Students can write about the superstition using the Mystery Cube interactive.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  January 15
    In 1929, Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on this day.
    Students study Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech and work in groups to create a mural that depicts Dr. King's vision of peace.

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