Each month, the ReadWriteThink.org Calendar offers quick classroom activities, lesson plans, Web links, and texts pertaining to various reading-related and general interest events. Here is a sampling of the links for December:

December 1: In 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus
December 5: Walt Disney was born on this day in 1901
December 7: Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese in 1941
December 9: Author Joel Chandler was born on this day in 1848
December 15: Bill of Rights Day observed
December 19: Author Eve Bunting was born in Ireland in 1928
December 25: A Christmas Carol was the first book to be transmitted over the radio in 1939

There also are links relating to winter, other noted authors, and more. To see the calendar, visit the ReadWriteThink.org December Calendar page.

The ReadWriteThink.org website is administered jointly by the International Reading Association and the National Council of Teachers of English, in partnership with the Verizon Foundation. It is part of the MarcoPolo program, which provides standards-based Internet content and professional development to K-12 teachers and students throughout the United States