![Malcolm X was born in Nebraska in 1925.](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/1128.jpg?h=62a297ba&itok=1k-_6O8t)
![National Public Radio began broadcasting in 1971.](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/1129.jpg?h=2e6b26fe&itok=_TxStqKG)
![Commercial ice cream is first sold in the U.S. in 1786.](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/1131_1.jpg?h=16b768a2&itok=PmsyBklG)
![Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in 1803.](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/1132_0.jpg?h=d64f78a1&itok=2z5S_V07)
![<em>Mister Rogers' Neighborhood</em> premiered in 1967.](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/1133_0.jpg?h=b7f3e63e&itok=-YAoVC3Z)
After thinking about TV shows, books, and movies from their childhood, students write about what they remember and revisit how they feel about it at an older age.
![The first Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929.](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/1134_0.jpg?h=f2fcf546&itok=8A0_jgRr)
![<em>Star Wars</em> creator George Lucas was born in 1944.](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/1135_0.jpg?h=06ac0d8c&itok=kHAMsznp)
![Celebrate blues legend Robert Johnson's birthday.](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/1136_2.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=CvS0eQA2)
![The Brooklyn Bridge opened on this day in 1883.](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/1139_0.jpg?h=f60ee9b5&itok=AzpqUWyr)
![Poet Yusef Komunyakaa was born in 1947.](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/1140_0.jpg?h=8f8a1b48&itok=WIhfEqMa)
![The Spanish town of Guernica was bombed on this date in 1937.](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/1141_0.jpg?h=68477d50&itok=qWfdmpNU)
After showing students Picasso's Guernica, they are provided with background information, share their impressions, and write about Picasso's purpose in creating the painting.
![Jazz and blues singer Billie Holiday was born in 1915.](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/1142_0.jpg?h=2741c7bd&itok=yWZEMkim)
![LoisDuncan](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/2022-04/duncan_primary.jpg?h=7dd0fe81&itok=PnK-IN8c)
Mysteries are shared with students for them to solve and brainstorm the attributes of a good mystery. Small groups then compose short mysteries using the Mystery Cube.
![April is National Poetry Month!](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/1144_1.jpg?h=73cca598&itok=AFDpDGPz)
Students are assigned to be "poets of the day" and are provided several models to create, illustrate, and present their different poems to the class.
![In 1928, Maya Angelou was born.](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/1145_0.jpg?h=c04c2334&itok=yehs79AK)
![Hans Christian Andersen was born on this date in 1805.](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/1146_0.jpg?h=7411a672&itok=QK0HV02t)
![The RMS <em>Titanic</em> sank on this day in 1912.](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/1147_1.jpg?h=6544816a&itok=EzsLBevo)
![Noah Webster published his <em>American Dictionary of the English Language</em> in 1828.](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/1148_1.jpg?h=a8515624&itok=1LgJHHDU)
After dividing students into small groups, students play a variation of the game Balderdash to celebrate the publication of Webster's dictionary.
![In 1939, Marian Anderson was denied permission to sing at Constitution Hall.](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/1149_0.jpg?h=cfe433d9&itok=3KXbFvE5)
![Celebrate Earth Day!](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/1151_0.jpg?h=114b8841&itok=udXI9CIV)