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How to Celebrate Kwanzaa on Your Campus
An article details everything you need to know about celebrating Kwanzaa at your school. An opening-day ceremony starts the seven-day holiday celebration followed a daily routine that includes a greeting, candle lighting, reciting an...
American Chemical Society
American Chemical Society: Holiday Chemistry
A collection of chemistry activities and experiments with a Christmas holiday theme.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Holiday Relay: A Sounding Out Game
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Given a sound or word, each student on team runs to pile of holiday shapes, finds the letter, or picture that begins with the sound, or brings back all the letters...
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Federal Reserve Bank of Boston: Closed for the Holiday [Pdf]
"Closed for the Holiday" is an excellent account of the consequential events of the Great Depression focusing on the Stock Market Crash of 1929 as the beginning of the Great Depression, and ending with the emergency bank actions Franklin...
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The Official Web Site of Billie Holiday
Visit the official web site of jazz singer Billie Holiday. This site includes a short biography, her career summary, photos and quotes.
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All Crafts: Holiday Crafts
This site offers a huge collection of links to craft activities organized into by holiday, celebration, or season.
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Funology: Holiday Arts and Crafts
This resource has crafts and activities for holidays. Ideas are listed by holiday. Most can be done with common classroom and household supplies with little adult help.
A&E Television
History.com: The Ancient Origins of Diwali, India's Biggest Holiday
Every year around October and November, Hindus around the world celebrate Diwali, or Deepavali -- a festival of lights that stretches back more than 2,500 years. Diwali 2021 occurs on Thursday, November 4. In India, the five-day...
American Presidency Project
American Presidency Project: Franklin D. Roosevelt: Declaring Bank Holiday
Online resource that provides the text to the original document in which President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared a bank holiday. This was known as Proclamation 2039.
PBS
Pbs: American Masters: Billie Holiday
Jazz vocalist Billie Holiday is considered to be the best of all time. Read more about her life on this PBS American Masters site.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Billie Holiday
Biographical details on jazz singer Billie Holiday, a 2000 inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Includes a timeline of key life events, essential songs list, and recommended reading.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Holiday Write the Room
This colorful, fun, festive free download was a surprise highlight during the busy holiday season!
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Billie Holiday Classroom Activity
A short lesson/activity over the popular jazz artist Billie Holiday, in particular her song "Strange Fruit." Provides a link to the song's lyrics and a clip, as well as other lesson plans, web links, and a bibliography. From April 7, 2007.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "Bank Holiday" by Katherine Mansfield
This is the full text of the short story "Bank Holiday" by Katherine Mansfield. The streets are bustling with people-musicians, children, psychics, and salesmen-because a bank holiday means that everyone is out of the house, enjoying the...
A&E Television
History.com: How a Deadly Railroad Strike Led to the Labor Day Holiday
The history behind the Labor Day holiday is far more complex and dramatic than most might realize, starting with a heated campaign by workers in the late 19th century to win support and recognition for their contributions. In July 1894,...
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Comission
Explore Pa History: Billie Holiday
Examine the life and historical contributions of renown jazz vocalist and Pennsylvania native, Billie Holiday in this concise biography.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Holiday Fun
A scanned copy of the 1897 publication of Holiday Fun, a book of poems and stories for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Holiday Prize
A scanned copy of the 1896 publication of The Holiday Prize by Ellinor Davenport Adams, a fiction book for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Holiday Pleasures by Rudolf Geissler
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's novel Holiday Pleasures by Rudolf Geissler [1870].
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Holiday, and Other Stories by Oscar Pletsch
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Holiday, and Other Stories by Oscar Pletsch [1870], a collection of illustrated stories and poems.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Aunt Louisa's Holiday Guest
A scanned copy of the 1873 publication of Aunt Louisa's Holiday Guest by Laura Valentine, a book of poetry for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Holiday Fun
A scanned copy of the 1873 publication of Holiday Fun, a book of picture puzzles for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Holiday Tales for Schoolboys by William Martin
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Holiday Tales for Schoolboys by William Martin (1861). This is a collection of stories from Darton's Boys Own Library.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Holiday Fun (Warne)
A scanned copy of the 1872 publication of Holiday Fun, a picture puzzle book for children.
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