World Book Day

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April 23, 1995
Related Lesson Plans: 
Fables and Trickster Tales Around the World
Fairy Tales Around the World
Related Links: 
Celebrating World Poetry
World Book and Copyright Day

Poem in Your Pocket Day

Submitted by snituama on April 1, 2013 - 12:37pm
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April 18, 2002
Related Links: 
Poem in Your Pocket Day
National Highlights

John Steinbeck wins the Nobel Prize for Literature

Submitted by snituama on October 13, 2012 - 11:10pm
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October 25, 1962
Related Lesson Plans: 
John Steinbeck’s "The Grapes of Wrath": The Inner Chapters
Steinbeck’s Use of Nonfiction Sources in "The Grapes of Wrath"
Related Links: 
NobelPrize.org: Nobel Prize in Literature 1962 - John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck: A Voice for a Region, A Voice for America

John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath” wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Submitted by snituama on October 11, 2012 - 3:24pm
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May 6, 1940
Related Lesson Plans: 
John Steinbeck’s "The Grapes of Wrath": The Inner Chapters
John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath”: Verbal Pictures
Steinbeck’s Use of Nonfiction Sources in "The Grapes of Wrath"

John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath” is published

Submitted by snituama on September 21, 2012 - 4:40pm
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Event Date Display: 
April 14, 1939
Related Lesson Plans: 
John Steinbeck’s "The Grapes of Wrath": The Inner Chapters
John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath”: Verbal Pictures
Related Links: 
John Steinbeck: A Voice for a Region, A Voice for America
The Dust Bowl, a Film by Ken Burns

William Golding, English author, is born

Submitted by snituama on September 6, 2012 - 11:24am
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Event Date Display: 
September 19, 1911
Related Links: 
William Golding: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1983
Lord of the Flies Game

American poet Donald Hall born

Submitted by snituama on September 6, 2012 - 11:18am
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September 20, 1928
Related Links: 
Resources on Donald Hall from the Library of Congress
American Academy of Poets - Donald Hall

William Carlos Williams, American poet, is born

Submitted by snituama on September 6, 2012 - 10:46am
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September 17, 1883
Related Lesson Plans: 
Lesson 2: Thirteen Ways of Reading a Modernist Poem
Seeing Sense in Photographs & Poems
Related Links: 
Amercian Academy of Poets - William Carlos Williams
Modern American Poetry: William Carlos Williams

A Wrinkle in Time is published

Submitted by snituama on September 1, 2012 - 3:41pm
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January 28, 1962
Related Lesson Plans: 
A Wrinkle in Time: The Board Game

Rupert Brooke, English WWI poet, is born

Submitted by snituama on August 3, 2012 - 12:41pm
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August 3, 1887
Related Lesson Plans: 
Poetry of The Great War: 'From Darkness to Light'?
Related Links: 
Poetry Foundation: Rupert Brooke
Humanities Magazine: British Modernism’s Many Manners

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