September 2016 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 2016 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
28 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers "I Have a Dream" speech (1963) Also try: Civil Rights Movement, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. First radio commercial airs in New York City (1922) Also try: marketing	29 First Indian Reservation established (1758) Also try: Native American history Hurricane Katrina hits the Gulf Coast (2005) Also try: hurricanes	30 Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as Supreme Court Justice (1967) Also try: the Supreme Court Mary Shelly born (1797) Also try: Frankenstein, Gothic literature	31 First solar powered car demonstrated in Chicago (1955) Also try: renewable energy	1 Bobby Fischer earns world chess title (1972) Also try: Bobby Fischer	2 First successful open heart surgery (1952) Also try: surgery Victory over Japan Day (1945) Also try: WWII, atomic bomb	3 Treaty of Paris ends American Revolutionary War (1783) Also try: American Revolutionary War Richard "The Lionheart" crowned at Westminster (1189) Also try: Westminster
4 Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan (1609) Also try: New York, Age of Discovery Google founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin (1998) Also try: search engine, research skills	5 Jesse James born (1847) Also try: Wild West First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia (1774) Also try: Intolerable Acts, American Revolution Labor Day Also try: American Labor Movement	6 Read a Book Day Also try: love of reading, author study Chemist John Dalton born (1766) Also try: atomic theory	7 ESPN debuts (1979) Also try: sports	8 International Literacy Day Also try: reading, media literacy	9 Leo Tolstoy born (1828) Also try: War and Peace, Anna Karenina	10 Switzerland joins the United Nations (2002) Also try: United Nations World Suicide Prevention Day Also try: mental health
11 September 11th Remembrance Day Also try: terrorism National Grandparents Day Also try: heritage, family tree	12 Lascaux cave paintings discovered (1940) Also try: Paleolithic era Mae Jemison becomes first African American woman in space (1992) Also try: space exploration	13 Roald Dahl born (1916) Also try: Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Milton Hershey born (1857) Also try: chocolate	14 Francis Scott Key writes "The Star-Spangled Banner" (1814) Also try: "The Star-Spangled Banner" Ivan Pavlov born (1849) Also try: classical conditioning	15 Hispanic Heritage Month Begins Also try: Latin American countries Tomie de Paola born (1934) Also try: Strega Nona The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship (1935) Also try: Holocaust	16 Mexican Independence Day Also try: Mexican history, el grito de dolores The Mayflower starts voyage to North America (1620) Also try: pilgrims	17 Constitution Day: United States Constitution signed (1787) Also try: supreme law, Separation of Powers, Bill of Rights
18 The New York Times first published (1851) Also try: newspaper, media Fugitive Slave Act passed (1850) Also try: slavery, Underground Railroad	19 Otzi the Iceman discovered by German tourists (1991) Also try: mummy	20 Upton Sinclair born (1878) Also try: The Jungle, muckraking, meat packing industry President George W. Bush declares a "war on terror" (2001) Also try: "war on terror"	21 The Hobbit published (1937) Also try: The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien	22 Ice cream cone invented (1904) Also try: ice cream Autumnal Equinox Also try: autumn, celestial sphere	23 Planet Neptune discovered (1846) Also try: planets, solar system The Phantom of the Opera published (1909) Also try: Gaston Leroux, musical theater	24 Dwight D. Eisenhower mandates desegregation of Little Rock schools (1957) Also try: desegregation Punctuation Day Also try: end punctuation, comma, semicolon, colon
25 Shel Silverstein born (1930) Also try: poetry	26 Johnny Appleseed born (1774) Also try: apples Sir Francis Drake finishes circumnavigation of the earth (1580) Also try: circumnavigation, European explorers	27 Samuel Adams born (1722) Also try: Founding Fathers, Articles of Confederation, Continental Congress Ancestor Appreciation Day Also try: heritage, family tree	28 William the Conqueror invades England (1066) Also try: Battle of Hastings SpaceX launches first private spacecraft, the Falcon 1, into orbit (2008) Also try: space exploration	29 Common Program for the future People's Republic of China written (1949) Also try: Communism Miguel de Cervantes born (1547) Also try: Don Quixote	30 Truman Capote born (1924) Also try: Breakfast at Tiffany's Jack the Ripper kills third and fourth victims (1888) Also try: London	1 National Bullying Prevention Month Also try: cyberbullying Nazi leaders are sentenced at the Nuremberg Trials (1946) Also try: Holocaust, war crimes Yosemite National Park established by U.S. Congress (1890) Also try: National Parks, sequoia forest

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