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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis is born
July 28, 1929
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Explore the ways in which First Ladies were able to shape the world while dealing with the expectations placed on them as women and as partners of powerful men.
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Explore the role and impact of recent First Ladies through research and family interviews.
Helen Beatrix Potter, English author, illustrator, and conservationist best known for children’s books, is born
July 28, 1866
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Lesson Plan / Literature & Language ArtsBeatrix Potter's Naughty Animal Tales
Through studying Beatrix Potter's stories and illustrations from the early 1900s and learning about her childhood in Victorian England, students can compare/contrast these with their own world to understand why Potter wrote such simple stories and why she wrote about animals rather than people.
World War I erupts in Europe
July 28, 1914
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Lesson Plan / History & Social StudiesPoetry of The Great War: 'From Darkness to Light'?
The historian and literary critic Paul Fussell has noted in The Great War and Modern Memory that, "Dawn has never recovered from what the Great War did to it." With dawn as a common symbol in poetry, it is no wonder that, like a new understanding of dawn itself, a comprehensive body of "World War I Poetry" emerged from the trenches as well.
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