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April 2018 on Knowitall
April 12, 2018 - Posted in Education by Mimi Wortham-Brown
- In April, literacy and poetry resources abound in our Libraries, Literature & Learning Collection! Please see the list of specific dates to keep in mind all through April!
- The 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King occurs on April 4. View the Collection.
- Try out our resources for World Health Day on April 7. We hope you will not only view them but also act on them!
- For Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), we offer our Holocaust Remembrance Collection.
- For Earth Day, take a look at the numerous resources made available in our Environmental Awareness Collection!
- For International Jazz Day on April 30, learn about jazz greats! Click on the links below!
EXPLORE OUR LIBRARIES, LITERATURE & LEARNING COLLECTION!
FOR SCHOOL LIBRARY MONTH, NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK, NATIONAL POETRY MONTH, and DIA! (DIVERSITY IN ACTION) DAY…
Specific Dates To Keep in Mind During April Include:
SERIES
- Baker’s Dozen
- Conversations with SC Writers
- Foreign Language Scholastic Series - French
- Foreign Language Scholastic Series – Spanish
- Gullah Tales
- Inside Storytelling
- Literary Tour of SC
- National Book Month | Periscope
- Scholastic Children’s Stories
- Tune Up to Literacy
TOPICS
- American Writers – Conversations with SC Writers
- Authors of Children’s Books
- For Young Readers
- For Young Writers
- Illustrators
- National Book Month
- SC Authors
April 5-11: Library Week & April 10: National Library Workers’ Day
April 16: National Bookmobile Day
April 16: Celebrate Teen Literature Day
April 18: National Columnists Day
- Pulitzer Prize Winners in South Carolina: Commentary
- Pulitzer Prize Winners in South Carolina: Reporting
April 23: Shakespeare’s Birthday
- Costume Shop: Fashion in Shakespeare’s Time
- Theater – One Minute Art Lesson | Artopia
- Shakespeare (Hamlet and Macbeth Resources) | Standard Deviants TV)
- Baker’s Dozen
- Conversations with SC Writers
- Foreign Language Scholastic Series - French
- Foreign Language Scholastic Series – Spanish
- Gullah Tales
- Inside Storytelling
- Literary Tour of SC
- National Book Month | Periscope
- Scholastic Children’s Stories
April 28: Great Poetry Reading Day
April 30: Children’s Book Day/El Dia de los Ninos
SERIES
- Baker’s Dozen
- Conversations with SC Writers
- Foreign Language Scholastic Series - French
- Foreign Language Scholastic Series – Spanish
- Gullah Tales
- Inside Storytelling
- Literary Tour of SC
- National Book Month | Periscope
- Scholastic Children’s Stories
- Tune Up to Literacy
TOPICS
- American Writers – Conversations with SC Writers
- Authors of Children’s Books
- For Young Readers
- For Young Writers
- Illustrators
- National Book Month
- SC Authors
* South Carolina educators, please register for an account on LearningWhy to gain access to all of the resources from StreamlineSC.
SERIES AVAILABLE IN THE LIBRARIES, LITERATURE & LEARNING COLLECTION
Storytelling should be a part of a student’s educational experience because it is a literary activity, a listening activity, a means of transmitting values, and a means of appreciating cultural diversity
The storytellers in the Baker’s Dozen lessons were influenced by Augusta Baker, a well-known librarian and storyteller who worked in the New York Public Library for many years and taught storytelling at colleges across the country. These thirteen, renowned national and local storytellers were taped in the studios of SCETV as they told their stories in front of elementary-age students who asked the storyteller questions about their story and the art of storytelling.
Take a closer look at types of media like photography, radio, film, and television. Record your answers to the Write About It questions in a notebook or a digital document.
Conversations with S.C. Writers
SCETV brings into the studio well-known South Carolina writers to share a little about their careers, writing process and more!
Foreign Language Scholastic Series – French
This series is a collection of Scholastic "classics" reproduced in French. For use with language learners in grades 1-5. (From our Streamline collection)
Foreign Language Scholastic Series - Spanish
This series is a collection of Scholastic "classics" reproduced in Spanish. For use with language learners in grades 1-5. (From our Streamline collection)
The Standard Deviants clear away confusion and identify the most common grammatical errors.
Native Islanders share their folklore and history through storytelling and singing.
Idella Bodie’s Ghost Tour: A Writer’s Guide
Offers students and teachers a personal view of the writing process.
South Carolina and national storytellers perform interesting stories and talk about the craft of storytelling.
Literary Tour of South Carolina
Students meet nationally recognized authors who call South Carolina home. They learn about the writing process, making characters come alive on the page, creating the plot, and how important research is to any story, both fiction and non-fiction.
Mary Boykin Chesnut | Idella Bodie’s SC Women
Mary Boykin Chesnut kept a diary during the Civil War. Events dramatized in this film were extracted straight from her diary.
National Book Month | Periscope
This collection celebrates books!
National Poetry Month: A World of Poetry | Periscope
Poetry is a language spoken around the world. Although you may not regularly sit down and read poetry, chances are you are exposed to some form of it every day.
Pulitzer Prize Winners in South Carolina
Three programs, including: Commentary, Literature and Reporting
Scholastic Children's Stories are grouped into six collections: Families, Feelings & Friendship, Fantasy & Imagination, Favorite Animal Stories,Folk Tales & Fables, Multicultural, and Seasons & Nature
Shakespeare | Standard Deviants TV
The Standard Deviants get up-close and personal with Shakespeare's famous plays, Hamlet and Macbeth.
Recommended for preK-3, Tune Up to Literacy encourages literacy using original songs by composer/lyricist/educator Dr. Al Balkin, composer who wrote music for The Hobbit, and several off-Broadway children’s musicals. The programs musically introduce and reinforce concepts such as punctuation and sentence construction.
Please note: This content was created as part of a college-level course. Some of the content may contain adult themes or language not suitable for all audiences.
For this workshop series, 15 major talents in contemporary literature met in a forum with well-known author William Price Fox and USC creative writing students. Each writer discussed personal writing methods, furnishing insights into the highly individualized process of literary creation. Featured writers include George Plimpton, James Dickey, James McPherson, John Gardner, John Hawkes, John irving, Kurt Vonnegut, Nora Ephron, Pauline Kael, Reynolds Price, Stephen Spender, Susan Sontag, Tom Wolfe, William Price Fox, and William Styron.
Writers from the South Carolina Hall of Fame
South Carolina Hall of Fame honors and recognizes contemporary and past citizens who have made outstanding contributions to South Carolina’s history and progress. Writers Include Elizabeth Coker, Mary Simms Oliphant, Pat Conroy, Robert Bass, and Walter Edgar.
BE SURE TO VIEW THE TOPICS AREA OF LIBRARIES, LITERATURE & LEARNING
Just scroll down below Series.
TOPICS
- American Writers
- Authors of Children’s Books
- For Young Readers
- For Young Writers
- Illustrators
- National Book Month
- National Poetry Month
- Poets Laureate (Full Collection from All Series)
- S.C. Authors
- Shakespeare
* South Carolina educators, please register for an account on LearningWhy to gain access to the rights-protected content in StreamlineSC.
NATIONAL POETRY MONTH: A WORLD OF POETRY from Periscope!
The 2018 National Poetry Month gala will be held at Lincoln Center on April 25.
Poets Laureate Collection from All Series
Even More Poets!
Archibald Rutledge, James Dickey, Kwame Dawes, Marjory Wentworth, Reeds Rise from Water, Singing Amazing Grace, Talking About Amazing Grace, Tommy Scott Young, and William Gilmore Simms
MORE APRIL DATES TO REMEMBER!
APRIL 4 MARTIN LUTHER KING
Remembering the civil rights leader and clergyman, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968.
APRIL 7 WORLD HEALTH DAY – KNOWITALL HEALTHY!
Health resources for students and families!
SERIES
- Youth Media Health Institute
- EdAware: Eat Smart, Move More
- Flu PSAs
- Healthy Hannah’s Healthy Choice Heroes
APRIL 11 Yom HaShoah - HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE COLLECTION
(APRIL 12, 2018 - SUNSET ON APRIL 11)
Seared Souls: South Carolina Voices of the Holocaust: Trace the events of the Holocaust through the testimony of survivors who settled in South Carolina. Interviews are combined with dramatic archival footage for a powerful and moving record of the inhumanity that was experienced during the Holocaust.
S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust: Full interviews with South Carolinians who survived the Holocaust and those who liberated the concentration camps or witnessed the atrocities that took place.
APRIL 22 EARTH DAY - ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS COLLECTION
SERIES
- Climate Change: A Global Reality
- Congaree Swamp Stories
- Documentary & Webisodes | Web of Water
- Earth Day – Project Discovery at Congaree National Park
- Earth Today
- Earth Today Kid Minutes
- Environmental Ed
- Environmental Minutes
- Natural State
- Saving Sandy Island
- Sea Change
TOPICS
You might be surprised at the wide assortment of topics in this collection, such as these!
View a few at a time or view them all! Choose a topic that interests you or one that you’re curious about!
- Acid Rain
- Air Quality | Earth Today
- Beach Sweep/River Sweep | Earth Today Kid Minutes
- Buy Recycled Products | Earth Today Mid Minutes
- Canoeing for Kids
- Carolina Marsh Tacky
- Champions of the Environment | Environmental Ed
- City Roots
- Disappearing Frogs Project | Palmetto Scene
- Dolphin Conservation
- Drip…Drip…Drip | Environmental Minutes
- Eco Adventure with Philippe Cousteau | Riverbanks Roundup
- Environmental Awareness | Pee Dee Explorer
- Environmental Design | Math in the Middle
- Greenhouse Effect | Environmental Minutes
There are too many available to list! Consider making recommendations to friends to view the ones you haven’t gotten to yet! ...
Toward the end of the alphabetical list are these assets that you won’t want to miss! Be sure to come back and explore them all!
- Recycle and Conserve | Earth Today
- Reef-X
- Sea Change, Part 1 - Introduction
- Straw Bale House
- Sustainablity at Biltmore Estate
- Topiary Garden – Shaping
- Wetlands
- Worm Farming
APRIL 30 INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY
- Being in a Jazz Band | Artopia
- Chamo Pozo: Conga Player | Periscope
- Cheraw, Part 3 – Dizzy Gillespie | Palmetto Places
- Chesterfield County - Dizzy Gillespie Park
- Dizzy Gillespie | Periscope
- Duet Session – Marian McPartland & Joe Sample | Artopia
- First of All, What Is Jazz?
- Hugh Masakela | Artopia
- Jazz | Gullah Music
- Joe Samples Explains Poetry and Rhythm | Artopia
- Joe Sample, American Pianist and Composer | Artopia
- John Birks “ Dizzy” Gillespie | History of SC Slide Collection
- Listening | Artopia
- Louis Armstrong | Artopia
- Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz Recoriding
- Marian McPartland, Host of Piano Jazz
- Mary Lou Williams | Artopia
- Musical Influences | Artopia
- Practice | Artopia
- Reflections of Columbia, Part 4 – The Roaring Twenties | Carolina Stories
- School Project
- Scott Joplin
- Singing Amazing Grace
- SC Jazz Festival | ETV Shorts
- Spirituals and Jazz | Artopia
- Teaching Kids Jazz | Artopia
- The Harlem Renaissance | Artopia
- What I Love | Artopia
- What Is a Vibraphone? | Artopia
- What is Jazz | Auntie Karen’s Place
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