Craig and I read news about the proposed U.S. census question about citizenship for 2020. We discussed pro and con arguments and uses for census data. We read about themes in geography, why we study it, and theories about why it is ignored. We applied to real-life events - aliens and the galaxy. We looked to an historical atlas to see change and human-environment interaction. We looked to the Barbary Coast. We also looked to a World Atlas of Religion. Finally, we read the prologue and looked at the map of "Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates." We also read "How the U.S. Built a Navy and Faced Down the Barbary Pirates" from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, to compare fact with historical fiction. While reading, we stopped frequently to address new vocabulary and historical events and concepts in context - the Articles of Confederation, the Age of Exploration, geography, piracy, slavery, European political ideas. We discussed foreign/international policy and the state of America at this time in history - 1780s. We read about the end of the Golden Age of Piracy, after the War of 1812 and the success of America and its navy.