September 2013 Curriculum Calendar - Lesson Plan Ideas by Date

Enhance your current curriculum with this fun reference calendar. Whether you want to highlight historic events, honor birthdays of significant people, or celebrate holidays, this is a valuable tool for every teacher. Click on any event to find a breadth of related teaching resources that will spark new ideas to spice up your daily lessons. There's something worth celebrating every day!

Curriculum Calendar

<< September 2013 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
1 Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky for world chess title in 1972 Also try: board game	2 First successful open heart surgery occurs in 1952 Also try: surgery, medicine, heart failure Labor Day Also try: labor union, labor movement	3 Treaty of Paris is signed in 1783 Also try: Revolutionary War, Treaty of Versailles, American Revolution	4 Henry Hudson discovered Manhattan in 1609 Also try: Manhattan, Hudson River, English explorer	5 Outlaw Jesse James is born in 1847 Also try: Wild West, folktale	6 Chemist John Dalton is born in 1766 Also try: atomic theory, atom, chemistry, scientist	7 ESPN debuts in 1979 Also try: sports, entertainment
8 International Literacy Day Also try: reading, literature, library skills Grandparents Day Also try: grandparent, family, heritage	9 Novelist Leo Tolstoy is born in 1828 Also try: Russian literature, War and Peace, Anna Karenina	10 Switzerland joins the United Nations in 2002 Also try: United Nations	11 September 11th Remembrance Day Also try: 9/11, Al Qaeda, Twin Towers, World Trade Center	12 Lascaux cave paintings are discovered in 1940 Also try: cave painting, prehistoric art	13 Author Roald Dahl is born in 1916 Also try: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach	14 Francis Scott Key writes the Star Spangled Banner in 1814 Also try: Francis Scott Key, national anthem, patriotism
15 Author James Fenimore Cooper is born in 1789 Also try: The Last of the Mohicans, The Deerslayer	16 Mexican Independence Day Also try: Father Hidalgo, Mexican War of Independence	17 US Constitution is completed and signed in 1787 Also try: Constitutional Convention, George Washington, checks and balances Citizenship Day Also try: civic responsibility, volunteering, community	18 The New York Times is first published in 1851 Also try: newspaper, journalism, current event	19 International Talk Like a Pirate Day Also try: treasure, shipwreck, Blackbeard	20 Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs in 1973 Also try: tennis, sexism	21 Author H.G. Wells is born in 1866 Also try: The Invisible Man, science fiction
22 The office of the United States Postmaster General is established by Congress in 1789 Also try: American Revolution, mail, USPS Autumn equinox Also try: vernal equinox, solstice, fall	23 Planet Neptune is discovered in 1846 Also try: solar system, planet, astronomy	24 President Dwight D. Eisenhower mandates desegregation of Little Rock schools in 1957 Also try: Little Rock Nine, civil rights, desegregation	25 Poet Shel Silverstein is born in 1930 Also try: The Giving Tree, Where the Sidewalk Ends, poetry	26 Folk hero Johnny Appleseed is born in 1774 Also try: John Chapman, apple tree, ecology, tree	27 Samuel Adams is born in 1722 Also try: Patriots, Revolutionary War	28 William the Conqueror invades England in 1066 Also try: Middle Ages, England, conquest
29 Artist Caravaggio is born in 1573 Also try: Baroque art, naturalism, chiaroscuro Author Miguel de Cervantes is born in 1547 Also try: Spanish literature, Don Quixote	30 Author Truman Capote is born in 1924 Also try: In Cold Blood	1 Nazi leaders are sentenced at the Nuremberg Trials in 1946 Also try: World War II, Holocaust, Nazism	2 Social leader Mahatma Gandhi is born in 1869 Also try: satyagraha, civil disobedience, nonviolence, Mahatma Gandhi	3 East and West Germany reunify in 1990 Also try: Cold War, Berlin Wall, Iron Curtain	4 USSR launches Sputnik I in 1957 Also try: satellite, Cold War, Space Race	5 Dramatist and politician Vaclav Havel is born in 1936 Also try: Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia

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