Charting Your Course
This curriculum is intended to prepare
Sparks participants for their travel experience through New England.
Students will visit important historical and cultural sites in Newport
RI, New Bedford MA, Martha’s Vineyard, Plymouth, Boston, and
along the Freedom Trail to the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts.
Charting Your Course encourages students
to think about how important choices or decisions – whether
made by individuals, groups of people, or an entire nation –
often set a direction that can have far-reaching impact. We learn
about early settlers setting off across a treacherous ocean to seek
religious freedom. We meet the historic whalers and modern day fisherman
who set sail from coastal New England to reap the bounty of the
seas. We walk in the footsteps of Revolutionary War heros and abolitionist
leaders as they chart a new course for American freedom.
Selected Pre-Trip Lessons & Activities
- Charting MY Course
- Mapping Our Route
- The People of Plymouth
- The Many Religions of Newport
- The American Revolution: A Storyteller’s
History
- Colonial Games: Nine Men’s Morrice &
Nine Pins
- Old-Fashioned Silhouettes
- 19th Century Whaling
- The Two Sides of Norman Rockwell
- Where is My Fork?
- Packing the Bags!
- Travel Photography
- Rules & Responsibilities of the Road
Trip Itinerary Highlights
- The Elms, Touro Synagogue, &
the Cliff Walk, Newport RI
- The New Bedford Whaling Museum,
New Bedford, MA
- Tour of Oaks Bluff and an afternoon
at the beach, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
- Plimouth Plantation, Plymouth,
MA
- City sightseeing, the Freedom
Trail, the Black Heritage Trail, Museum of Science, Harvard University,
Boston MA
- Minuteman National Historical
Park, Lexington & Concord MA
- Louisa MayAlcott's Home, Concord, MA
- Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield
MA
- Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge
MA
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