Right Before the Civil War

EXTRA CREDIT:  Here's an interview with an historian who wrote a book about life in everyday America, just before the Civil War started.  Please listen to the interview and react to it and/or discuss the context it gives to Beat! Beat! Drums! or Paul Revere's Ride, both of which have to do with the same topic. 

Our Place in the Universe

EXTRA CREDIT:  Watch the video I've linked HERE and write about your connections to it and /or between it and OUR TOWN.