Our Town - January 22

Grover's Corner Learning

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Today is National Southern Food Day, National Hot Sauce Day, and Answer Your Cat's Questions Day.

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

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
Bruce Springsteen - My Hometown - LISTEN

THEME: Our Town

Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Masterpiece- Our Town 1: The Way We Were (2:06) - VIEW and DO
Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Masterpiece- Our Town 2: Love and Marriage (1:50) - VIEW and DO
Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Masterpiece- Our Town 3: A Good Rest (1:15) - VIEW and DO
Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Our Hometown - Peterborough: The MacDowell Colony & Thornton Wilder (3:21) - 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 (56:17) - VIEW
Grades 9-12 - EDSITEment - Dramatic and Theatrical Aspects in Thornton Wilder's Our Town - Lesson Plan - READ and DO

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