Lesson Plan Curriculum Calendar- Find Lesson Plan Ideas by Date- December 2009

Author’s Purpose Lesson Plans Curriculum Calendar << December 2009 >>
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29 Author C.S. Lewis is born in 1898 Also try: Narnia, The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe	30 Author Mark Twain is born in 1835 Also try: Samuel Clemens, Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	1 In 1913 Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line Also try: Ford Motor Company, Manufacturing	2 James Monroe declares the Monroe Doctrine in 1823 Also try: Isolationism, Neutrality, James Monroe	3 The Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire premieres in 1947 Also try: A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Glass Menagerie	4 The Grange is organized to protect farming interests 1867 Also try: Farming, Patrons of Husbandry	5 International Volunteer Day Also try: Volunteerism, Red Cross, Peace Corps
6 1st edition of Encyclopedia Britannica is published in 1768 Also try: Research Skills	7 Japan attacks Pearl Harbor in 1941 Also try: World War II, USS Arizona, Imperial Japan	8 The North American Free Trade Agreement is signed in 1993 Also try: NAFTA, Bill Clinton	9 Poet and Puritan John Milton is born in 1608 Also try: Paradise Lost	10 Human Rights Day Also try: Universal Declaration of Human Rights, United Nations	11 Marconi sends first transatlantic radio signal in 1901 Also try: Marconi, Wireless	12 Performer Frank Sinatra is born in 1915 Also try: Great American Songbook, My Way, Pop Music
13 The Mona Lisa is returned to the Louvre after being stolen in 1911 Also try: Leonardo da Vinci, The Louvre	14 Roald Amundsen is the first man to reach the South Pole in 1911 Also try: Roald Amundsen	15 Bill of Rights Day Also try: Constitution, Amendments	16 Composer Ludwig van Beethoven is born in 1770 Also try: Classical Music, Ode to Joy, Piano, Romanticism	17 Wright Brothers make their 1st successful flight in 1903 Also try: Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright, Aviation, Airplane	18 In 1865 the 13th Amendment is ratified, abolishing slavery Also try: Emancipation, Slavery, Abolition	19 Charles Dickens publishes A Christmas Carol in 1843 Also try: Charles Dickens, Christmas
20 Trial against Auschwitz guards begins in 1963 Also try: WWII, Holocaust, Concentration Camps	21 Pilgrims land at Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620 Also try: Plymouth Rock, Mayflower Compact, Puritans Winter Solstice Also try: Solstice, Winter, Seasons	22 Edward Johnson creates 1st string of Christmas lights in 1882 Also try: Thomas Edison, Christmas Decorations	23 Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon Church, is born in 1805 Also try: Joseph Smith, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints	24 Treaty of Ghent is signed in 1814 Also try: War of 1812	25 Christmas Also try: Christianity, Jesus, Bethlehem, Nativity	26 A catastrophic tsunami strikes southeast Asia in 2004 Also try: Indian Ocean Earthquake, Southeast Asia, Tidal Waves Beginning of Kwanzaa (Dec. 26-Jan. 1) Also try: Seven Principles, African American Heritage, Pan-African Movement
27 Microbiologist Louis Pasteur is born in 1822 Also try: Pasteurization, Bacteria, Germ Theory	28 Endangered Species Act of 1973 is passed Also try: Extinction, Whales, Biodiversity	29 The massacre of Wounded Knee takes place in 1890 Also try: 7th Calvary, Lakota, Sioux Indians, Ghost Dance	30 Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other galactic systems in 1924 Also try: Galaxies	31 New Year's Eve Also try: New Year, Fireworks Soviet Union disbands in 1991 Also try: USSR, Iron Curtain	1	2