Cross-Curricular Alignment for “The Great American Road Trip” 2016
Attraction
Freedom Trail Walking Tour and
USS Constitution (Boston, MA)
The Boston Common
Old State House
Old Granary Burial
King’s Chapel
King’s Chapel Burial Ground
Benjamin Franklin Statue
Old Corner Book Store
Old South Meeting House
Site of the Boston Massacre
Faneuil Hall
Paul Revere’s House
Old North Church
Alignment to
AP English 11
Revolutionary Period of
Literature:
Walden Pond (Concord, MA)
Mark Twain House (Hartford, CN)
Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island
(New York City)
Colonial Period of
American History:
Thomas Paine’s “The
Crisis, No. I” and “Common
Sense”
Mayflower, establishment
of the Puritan Church in
New England, Colonial
Education, formulation of
revolutionary ideas
through colonial meeting
places, Stamp Act /
Intolerable Acts, the
Boston Massacre
Abigail Adams’ “Letters to
John Adams”
Revolutionary Period
of American History:
Thomas Jefferson’s
“Declaration of
Independence”
Boston Tea Party, Paul
Revere’s Midnight Ride,
Battle of Lexington and
Concord, Battle of Bunker
Hill, Loyalist View of the
American Revolution
Patrick Henry’s “Speech in
the Virginia Convention”
(call to arms)
Study of Puritanism
through The Scarlet Letter
Ralph Waldo Emerson House
“Old Manse” +
Lexington and Concord Tour
Alignment to
AP U.S. History
Federalist Period of
American History: War
Excerpts from Benjamin
Franklin’s The
Autobiography, “Poor
Richard’s Almanack”
Transcendentalism Unit:
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tenets of Transcendental
philosophy as developed
by Emerson and others.
Essays: “Nature,” and
“Self-Reliance” and Walt
Whitman poetry
Transcendentalism Unit:
Henry David Thoreau’s
Bio. and the following:
Walden, “Civil
Disobedience,” and “Life
Without Principle”
of 1812, Abolitionist
Movement, expansion of
American education
system
Read and study Mark
Twain’s The Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn
American Reform and
Expansion – major
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The
Great Gatsby (study of
the American Dream
and NYC in the 1920s)
American
Immigration: consistent
Jacksonian Democracy
in America:
Transcendentalism and
beginning of the American
Revolution
Jacksonian Democracy
in America:
Transcendentalism,
Abolitionist movement,
non-violent protest,
Synthesized into the Civil
Rights movement of the
1960s.
theme in the mid-late
1800s – life along the
Mississippi, regional
dialects, Reconstruction
and the growth of the
United States
theme throughout
American history,
especially focused on
during the late 1800-early
1900s. Direct impact on
students & immigration of
their own ancestors
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Cross-Curricular Alignment for “The Great American Road Trip” 2016
Tour of NYC: Trinity Church, Wall
Street, 9/11 Memorial, Lower
East Side Tenement Museum,
Rockefeller Center, Times
Square, China Town, Little Italy,
SoHo, St. Patrick’s Cathedral,
Grand Central Station, Trump
Tower
Broadway Show (NYC)
Washington, D.C. Monuments
and Guided Tour including:
Lincoln Memorial, Vietnam
Veterans’ Memorial, Korean War
Memorial, National Mall, Tidal
Basin, MLK Memorial, Jefferson
Memorial, Washington
Monument, and White House
Smithsonian Museums
(Washington, D.C.)
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The
Great Gatsby (study of the
American Dream and NYC
in the 1920s) and Arthur
Miller’s Death of a
Salesman
Elements of Drama
studied during Death of a
Salesman unit
“The Gettysburg Address”
by Abraham Lincoln
A focal point during
every chapter of AP
U.S.: numerous cultural,
social, historical, and
economic sights
A focal point during
every chapter of AP
U.S.: numerous cultural,
Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.’s “I Have a Dream”
social, historical, and
economic sights
Read and study Tim
O’Brien’s The Things They
Carried, a Vietnam war
novel (American history
museum)
World War I, World
War II, and Post War
America. Explaining the
German Weimar Republic
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
Jima, U.S. Capitol, Ford’s Theater,
and Mount Vernon
(Washington, D.C.)
Read excerpts from
Frederick Douglass’s slave
narrative. Study Elie
Wiesel’s Holocaust memoir
Night (in grade 10) and
read the rhetoric of Lincoln
Civil War and
Reconstruction –
Opposing viewpoints on
the war between the
states. Douglass was the
leading civil rights
spokesmen in the postwar South.
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