Our Town

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Friday, January 22, 2021

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Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Our Town
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ON THIS DATE

• 1905 - Russian troops opened fire on marching workers in St. Petersburg, killing more than 100 in what became known as "Bloody Sunday."
• 1938 - Thornton Wilder's play "Our Town" premieres in Princeton, N.J.
• 1953 - Arthur Miller's play "The Crucible" opens on Broadway.
• 1973 - The Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decision in Roe v. Wade, legalizing elective abortion in all fifty states.
• 1984 - The Apple Macintosh computer is introduced during a Super Bowl XVIII commercial.
• 1997 - The Senate confirms Madeleine Albright as the first female secretary of state.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1552 - English explorer and courtier Walter Raleigh
• 1561 - English philosopher and politician Francis Bacon
• 1573 - English poet John Donne
• 1788 - English poet Lord Byron
• 1875 - Director and producer D. W. Griffith
• 1904 - Dancer and choreographer George Balanchine

SONGS OF THE DAY 

John Mellencamp - Small Town - LISTEN

THEME:  Our Town

• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Masterpiece- Our Town 1: The Way We Were - VIEW and  DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Masterpiece- Our Town 2: Love and Marriage - VIEW and  DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Masterpiece- Our Town 3: A Good Rest - VIEW and  DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Our Hometown - Peterborough: The MacDowell Colony & Thornton Wilder - VIEW
• Grades 6-8- EDSITEment - Thornton Wilder's Our Town: The Reader as Writer - READ and DO
• Grades 7-12 - National Endowment for the Arts - Big Read - Our Town -READ and DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - University Place - Thornton Wilder: A Life - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - EDSITEment - Dramatic and Theatrical Aspects in Thornton  Wilder's Our Town - Lesson Plan - READ and DO

Watch 

• 11:53-12:22 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Gr. 6 - Truth And Equations
• 12:22-12:51 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Gr. 7 - Subtracting Rational Numbers
• 12:51-1:17 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Gr. 8 - Linear Models
• 1:17-1:49 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Algebra 1 - Graphs That Represent Situations
• 1:49-5 pm NH WORLD - Les Miserables On Masterpiece
• 7-8 pm NH WORLD - Against All Odds: The Fight for a Black Middle Class
• 8-10 pm NH WORLD - Boss: The Black Experience In Business
• 9-10 pm NHPBS - In Concert at the Hollywood Bowl - Hecho En Mexico
• 10-11 pm NHPBS - Great Performances - The Magic Of Horowitz
  

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