Literature, Literacy and Current Events

March 1941: Rosie begins riveting

March 12, 2025 - In 1941 when 25 women completed training at a Vultee airplane factory, their first day of work was scheduled for April 1.

Word of the Day

: Find it in blue in today's top story!

Writing Practice

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Weekly VOCAB

Today In History

August 4

1944: The Frank family (Otto, Edith, Margot and Anne) and four friends were discovered hiding in the annex to Otto Frank's office in Amsterdam. They were taken away to concentration camps. Only Otto survived the Holocaust.

1912: Raoul Wallenberg, an architect who helped thousands of Hungarian Jews escape capture by Nazi Germany during World War II and who graduated from the University of Michigan, was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He was captured by the Soviets in 1945 and never seen again.

1900: Louis Armstrong, famous jazz musician, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana.

1790: The Revenue Cutter Service, the predecessor the U.S. Coast Guard, was created by the U.S. Congress with the authorization to construct ten cutters to enforce U.S. tariff laws. The name "Coast Guard" was first used in 1915.

1753: Library of Congress: George Washington became a Master Mason, the highest rank in the Fraternity of Freemasonry, in his hometown of Fredericksburg, Virginia. Derived from the practices and rituals of the medieval guild system, freemasonry gained popularity in the eighteenth century, particularly in Great Britain. British Masons organized the first North American Chapter in 1731.

Featured Unit

Chemical Elements "Off the Wall"

Studio glass art is a recent development but creating functional glass from silica sand is thousands of years old. Through this Student News Net video, tour the Chihuly Garden and Glass in Seattle, Washington to marvel at the beauty of glass and the chemical elements! Student News Net was there in 2017.

Read More: Seattle sights are simply stupendous

Pink diamonds are rare

Over 90 percent of the world's pink diamonds come from The Argyle Diamond Mine in Western Australia. Pink Diamonds are very rare and very expensive, but all diamonds are tetrahedrons of carbon atoms.

A rush for gold ended quickly

The story of the short-lived Klondike Gold Rush (1896-1899) is told at the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park in downtown Seattle.

Glass: a hot and cool combo of art and science

Glassblowing is a red hot, totally cool combination of art and science.

Independent Practice and Activities for Printing

IP: Pink diamonds are rare
IP: Rush for gold ended quickly
Quiz: Rush for gold ended quickly
IP: Glass a hot and cool combo of art and science

In The News

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