September 2009 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 2009 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
30 Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as Supreme Court Justice in 1967 Also try: Supreme Court, African Americans	31 1st solar powered car is demonstrated in Chicago in 1955 Also try: Renewable Resources, Energy	1 Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky for world chess title in 1972 Also try: Chess, Grand Master	2 1st successful open heart surgery occurs in 1952 Also try: Surgery, Medicine, Heart Failure	3 Treaty of Paris is signed in 1783 Also try: Revolutionary War, Treaty of Versailles, 2cd Treaty of Paris	4 Henry Hudson discovered Manhattan in 1609 Also try: Manhattan, Hudson River, English Explorers	5 Outlaw Jesse James is born in 1847 Also try: Outlaws, Wild West
6 Chemist John Dalton is born in 1766 Also try: Atomic Theory, New System of Chemical Philosophy	7 Labor Day Also try: Unions, Labor Movement	8 International Literacy Day Also try: Illiteracy, Reading	9 Novelist Leo Tolstoy is born in 1828 Also try: Russian Literature, War and Peace, Anna Karenina	10 Switzerland joins the United Nations in 2002 Also try: United Nations, Neutrality	11 911 Remembrance Also try: September 11, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Twin Towers, World Trade Center	12 Lascaux Cave Paintings are discovered in 1940 Also try: Cave Paintings, Prehistoric Art
13 Author Roald Dahl is born in 1916 Also try: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach National Grandparents Day Also try: Grandchildren, Family	14 Francis Scott Key writes the Star Spangled Banner in 1814 Also try: Francis Scott Key, National Anthem	15 Author James Fenimore Cooper is born in 1789 Also try: Last of the Mohicans, The Deerslayer	16 Mexican Independence Day Also try: Father Hidalgo, El Grito	17 Citizenship Day Also try: Civics, Volunteerism, Civic Responsibility	18 Cyclist Lance Armstrong is born in 1971 Also try: Cyclists, Bicycles, Tour de France, Cancer Survivors POW and MIA Recognition Day Also try: Prisoner of War, Missing in Action, Geneva Convention	19 International Talk Like a Pirate Day Also try: Treasure, Ship, Blackbeard
20 Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs in 1973 Also try: Battle of the Sexes, Tennis, Sexism	21 Author H.G. Wells is born in 1866 Also try: The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The Time Machine	22 Autumn Equinox Also try: Vernal Equinox, Solstice, Fall	23 Largest known prime number is discovered in 1973 Also try: Division, Primes	24 Eisenhower mandates desegregation of Little Rock schools in 1957 Also try: Little Rock Nine, Civil Rights, Desegregation	25 Native American Day Also try: American Indians, Indigenous People Poet Shel Silverstein is born in 1930 Also try: The Giving Tree, Where the Sidewalk Ends	26 Folk hero Johnny Appleseed is born in 1774 Also try: John Chapman, Apple Trees, Ecology, Trees
27 Patriot Samuel Adams is born in 1722 Also try: Patriots, Revolutionary War	28 Artist Caravaggio is born in 1573 Also try: Baroque Art, Naturalism, Chiaroscuro	29 Author Miguel de Cervantes is born in 1547 Also try: Spanish Literature, Don Quixote	30 Author Truman Capote is born in 1924 Also try: Breakfast at Tiffany's, In Cold Blood	1 Nazi leaders are sentenced at the Nuremberg Trials in 1946 Also try: World War II, Holocaust, Nazism	2 Social leader Mohandas Gandhi is born in 1869 Also try: Satyagraha, Civil Disobedience, Nonviolence, India, Mahatma Gandhi	3 East and West Germany reunify in 1990 Also try: Cold War, Berlin Wall, Iron Curtain

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