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

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Writing Practice

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Today In History

July 16

1999: John F. Kennedy Jr., son of former President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy, was killed in an airplane crash. He was 38. Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, his wife, and his sister-in-law were also killed.

1945: The nuclear age began when the first atomic bomb (with a plutonium core) was tested about 200 miles south of Los Alamos, New Mexico. Weeks later in August, two atomic bombs were dropped on two cities in Japan forcing their surrender, which occurred on Sept. 2, 1945 aboard the USS Missouri.

1872: Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer, was born near Oslo. He was the first man to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean via the Northwest Passage (1903-1905). He also discovered the South Pole on December 14, 1911.

1790: Library of Congress: The Residence Act, which stipulated that the president select a site on the Potomac River as the permanent capital of the United States following a ten-year temporary residence in Philadelphia, was signed into law. In a proclamation issued on January 24, 1791, President George Washington announced the permanent location of the new capital, an area of land at the confluence of the Potomac and Eastern Branch (Anacostia) Rivers that would eventually become the District of Columbia. Soon after, Washington commissioned French engineer Pierre-Charles L'Enfant to create a plan for the city.

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

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