Thanks for all your responses on the The Day I was born project. I was asked to
post a hit.
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Diane Street <dstreet@whitfield.k12.ga.us> wrote:
I have a teacher who wants his students to look up newspapers on the day they were
born. He want students to answer the following questions.
What were the front page headlines of the day?
What was the weather like?
What was the biggest news story in term of foreign affairs?
What Political Figures were specifically mentioned?
In the photographs what were people wearing? In the obituaries, were there any
names you recognized?
Look at the editorial page. What were the primary topics and what viewpoints were
represented?
What are the lead sports stories and the names mentioned?
See if there are any movie or play reviews? What are the ones mentioned?
Look at the classified ads. What jobs are available and what is the pay offered?
What sorts of commercial advertizing is there? What products and what are the
prices?
Are there any ad or reviews for foods or restaurants? What are they?
Is there a TV guide or comics page? What did you find there?
What does the stock market report look like? What are the big winners and losers?
Are nay natural disasters reported? What and where?
Any ideas?
Diane Street
Media Specialist
Northwest Whitfield High School
1651 Tunnel Hill-Varnell Road, NW
Tunnel Hill, GA 30755
Telephone: 706 516 2236
Fax: 706 673 7098
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Here are some of good resources. Most of these, and so many others on the Internet,
focus on the current date, but users can enter a month and day in the search box
and find the information for any date.
This Day in History from the History Channel:
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history?paidlink=1
<http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history?paidlink=1&vid=HIS_SEM_Search&keywords=this%2Bday%2Bin%2Bhistory&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=this%20day%20in%20history&utm_term=this%20day%20in%20history>
&vid=HIS_SEM_Search&keywords=this%2Bday%2Bin%2Bhistory&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=this%20day%20in%20history&utm_term=this%20day%20in%20history
On This Day from the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/index.html
Infoplease.com's This Day in History: http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory
Scopes Systems maintains this page where students can enter any date and get
birthdays, deaths, and more: http://www.scopesys.com/anyday/
Hope these are helpful!
Terri L. Street, School Librarian
Longfellow Middle School
Norman, Oklahoma
tstreet@norman.k12.ok.us
"Never judge a book by its movie." -- J. W. Eagen
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I use the www.historychannel.com for this with type of project. It has articles
and and videos and goes along with the history channel on tv. It covers a wide
variety of topics, war, entertainment, etc.
Cindy
Cindy Glavin
Media Specialist
Big Timber Grade School
Big Timber, MT
theglavins@hotmail.com
http://btgsmedia.shutterfly.com
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I found these sites that might help:
http://www.factmonster.com/dayinhistory
http://www.surfnetkids.com/today.htm
http://cybersleuth-kids.com/sleuth/History/US_History/Day_In_History/index.htm
http://history1900s.about.com/od/todayinhistory/This_Day_in_History.htm
http://www.infoplease.com/daily
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/index.html
http://www.history.com/
Kay Goss
Mansfield Secondary Library
316 West Ohio Ave.
Mansfield, Mo. 65704
Home of Laura Ingalls Wilder
417-924-3236 Ext. 311
goss.kay@gmail.com
There is a website called web.archive.org that used the have years worth of back
websites. You could go to Cnn for the last 10-15 years and look info up, but I just
checked it and it only went back a few of years. New York times goes back 10 years
on this site. Too recent for HS, but there might be something else. You could play
around with it and see what other news companies might be in there. It should track
almost every website and everytime it has been changed or updated. It won't answer
all of those questions, but some. Searhcing a newspaper database by date might also
get you some of these answers.
Hope this helps.
Carla
Carla Boyington
Librarian
Rockingham School District
Central Elementary School and Saxtons River Elementary School
50 School Street Ext.
Bellows Falls, VT 05101
cboying@wnesu.net
802.463.4346
802.463.0131
Hi,
It might be too simple, but Google News Archives Search
(http://news.google.com/archivesearch/advanced_search?ned=us
<http://news.google.com/archivesearch/advanced_search?ned=us&hl=en)> &hl=en) pulls
up scanned-in
Here is a sample search for free-access articles from 1/25/2000, search term
Atlanta : http://news.google.com/archivesearch?as_q=atlanta
<http://news.google.com/archivesearch?as_q=atlanta&num=100&hl=en&btnG=Search+Archives&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&ned=us&as_user_ldate=01%2F25%2F00&as_user_hdate=01%2F25%2F00&lr=&as_src=&as_price=p1&as_scoring=a>
&num=100&hl=en&btnG=Search+Archives&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&ned=us&as_user_ldate=01%2F25%2F00&as_user_hdate=01%2F25%2F00&lr=&as_src=&as_price=p1&as_scoring=a
It can then pull up a newspaper scanned into the archive, like this:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=lnwxAAAAIBAJ
<http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=lnwxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=v6MFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5619,5937787&dq=atlanta&hl=en>
&sjid=v6MFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5619,5937787&dq=atlanta&hl=en
If you look at the light blue strip just on the right-hand side of the page, just
to the left of the page numbers, you will see a picture of a page with an
up-and-down arrow. Click on that icon to be able to scroll though the whole paper.
Zoom when you want to read something.
One option, though it takes some technical training to pull it off, for sure.
Good luck!
Tasha Bergson-Michelson
Research Skills Trainer
To The Point Research
tasha@tothepointresearch.com
http://searchme.typepad.com
http://dmarie.com/timecap/
http://www.union.k12.ia.us/ukhs/WebQuest/birthday.htm
http://www.santarosa.edu/library/Refs/bday.shtml
I hope that these help.
david plain, jr.
librarian
mangham high school
mangham, louisiana
http://www.ehow.com/how_2198293_old-newspaper-articles-online____for.html
Monica M. Dennler
Library Media Specialist
Eastampton Township School District
(609) 267-9172 x409
<mailto:mdennler@eastampton.k12.nj.us> mdennler@eastampton.k12.nj.us
The only thing I could find is the advanced search of the NY Times where a student
can leave the search box blank and fill in his date of birth for both the "From"
and the "to" settings.
I searched for my own birth date in 1935 and found several pages of articles. The
students will need to g to the bottom of the first page to see the other pages of
hits that they can check.
Two words of warning........
1) The computers used will probably have to be registered with the NY Times before
this page can be searched.
The NY Times is such a standard reference that you will want to do register
each computer anyway, if you haven't already done so.
2) The students may have to click on Advanced at the right end of the Your Search
blank in order to see the line where you can set the same day for the From-To date.
http://query.nytimes.com/search/alternate/query?query=
<http://query.nytimes.com/search/alternate/query?query=&st=fromcse#top>
&st=fromcse#top
Gordon Walter
Retired AGWSR School Librarian
101 Hilltop Drive
Ackley, Iowa 50601
Tel: 641-847-3315
Email: gordonwalter@mchsi.com
I just "googled" the day I was born and came up with these sites that look good
The Day I was born http://www.dayiwasborn.net/templates/System/default.asp?id=40333
dMarie TIme Capsule http://www.peoplespot.com/ask/dayborn.htm
The #1 Song in History on this Date
http://www.joshhosler.biz/numberoneinhistory/selectmonth.htm
On this Day http://www.biography.com/on-this-day/
Learn about the day and year you were born
http://www.wtps.org/wths/imc/Pathfinders/The%20Day%20You%20Were%20Born.htm
"VAN"
________
Diane Van Gorden, Librarian
Baker Hiddle School / High School
Baker, MT 59313-0659
dkvg3955 @ yahoo.com
vangordend @ baker.k12.mt.us
Google News has an archive in which they have digitized newspapers from all over
the world. If you Google "Google News", the first listing comes up with a direct
link to "Archive Search". They can put in their birth dates and see what comes up.
The downside is that some of the papers cannot be seen unless you pay first. But
if your students aren't too old, their birth years may be free.
Hope that helps!
Jennifer
Jennifer Lynch
Library Media Specialist
Campbell Elementary School
7206 Rovenna Street
Anchorage, AK 99518
(907) 742-5566
dmarie timecapsule- http://dmarie.com/timecap/
Raynette Schulte
Young Adult Librarian
Watertown Regional Library
Watertown South Dakota
netterscraps@gmail.com
Diane Street
Media Specialist
Northwest Whitfield High School
1651 Tunnel Hill-Varnell Road, NW
Tunnel Hill, GA 30755
Telephone: 706 516 2236
Fax: 706 673 7098
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