Cross-Curricular Alignment for the Great American Road Trip 2016

Cross-Curricular Alignment for “The Great American Road Trip” 2016

Attraction Alignment to Alignment to AP English 11 AP U.S. History Freedom Trail Walking Tour and Revolutionary Period of Colonial Period of USS Constitution (Boston, MA) Literature: American History: Mayflower, establishment The Boston Common Patrick Henry’s “Speech in of the Puritan Church in Old State House the Virginia Convention” New England, Colonial Old Granary Burial (call to arms) Education, formulation of revolutionary ideas King’s Chapel through colonial meeting Thomas Paine’s “The King’s Chapel Burial Ground places, Stamp Act / Crisis, No. I” and “Common Benjamin Franklin Statue Intolerable Acts, the Sense” Boston Massacre Old Corner Book Store Old South Meeting House Abigail Adams’ “Letters to Revolutionary Period Site of the Boston Massacre John Adams” of American History: Boston Tea Party, Paul Faneuil Hall Thomas Jefferson’s Revere’s Midnight Ride, Paul Revere’s House “Declaration of Battle of Lexington and Old North Church Independence” Concord, Battle of Bunker Hill, Loyalist View of the American Revolution Study of Puritanism through The Scarlet Letter Federalist Period of American History: War Excerpts from Benjamin of 1812, Abolitionist Franklin’s The Movement, expansion of Autobiography, “Poor American education Richard’s Almanack” system Ralph Waldo Emerson House Transcendentalism Unit: Jacksonian Democracy “Old Manse” + Ralph Waldo Emerson in America: Tenets of Transcendental Transcendentalism and Lexington and Concord Tour philosophy as developed beginning of the American by Emerson and others. Revolution Essays: “Nature,” and “Self-Reliance” and Walt Whitman poetry Walden Pond (Concord, MA) Transcendentalism Unit: Jacksonian Democracy Henry David Thoreau’s in America: Bio. and the following: Transcendentalism, Walden, “Civil Abolitionist movement, Disobedience,” and “Life non-violent protest, Without Principle” Synthesized into the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. Mark Twain House (Hartford, CN) Read and study Mark American Reform and Twain’s The Adventures Expansion – major of Huckleberry Finn theme in the mid-late 1800s – life along the Mississippi, regional dialects, Reconstruction and the growth of the United States Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The American (New York City) Great Gatsby (study of Immigration: consistent the American Dream theme throughout American history, and NYC in the 1920s) especially focused on during the late 1800-early 1900s. Direct impact on students & immigration of their own ancestors

1 Cross-Curricular Alignment for “The Great American Road Trip” 2016

Tour of NYC: Trinity Church, Wall F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The A focal point during Street, 9/11 Memorial, Lower Great Gatsby (study of the every chapter of AP American Dream and NYC U.S.: numerous cultural, East Side Tenement Museum, in the 1920s) and Arthur social, historical, and Rockefeller Center, Times Miller’s Death of a economic sights Square, China Town, Little Italy, Salesman SoHo, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Grand Central Station, Trump Tower Broadway Show (NYC) Elements of Drama studied during Death of a Salesman unit Washington, D.C. Monuments “The Gettysburg A focal point during and Guided Tour including: Address” by Abraham every chapter of AP Lincoln U.S.: numerous cultural, Lincoln Memorial, Vietnam social, historical, and Veterans’ Memorial, Korean War Dr. Martin Luther King economic sights Memorial, National Mall, Tidal Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” Basin, MLK Memorial, Jefferson Memorial, Washington Monument, and White House Smithsonian Museums Read and study Tim World War I, World (Washington, D.C.) O’Brien’s The Things They War II, and Post War Carried, a Vietnam war America. Explaining the novel (American history German Weimar Republic museum) and rise of Nazi Germany leading to the Holocaust. Post War – Jewish immigration to the US and Israel.

Smithsonian Museums – cultural, scientific, and historical themes covered in every Unit of AP US Arlington National Cemetery, Iwo Read excerpts from Civil War and Jima, U.S. Capitol, Ford’s Theater, Frederick Douglass’s slave Reconstruction – narrative. Study Elie Opposing viewpoints on and Mount Vernon Wiesel’s Holocaust the war between the (Washington, D.C.) memoir Night (in grade 10) states. Douglass was the and read the rhetoric of leading civil rights spokesmen in the post- Lincoln war South.