The students of International Leadership of Texas Charter School District returned from the trip heard round the world this week after an extensive 12-day tour of our nation’s history. The students’ history and government lessons came to life in this unique opportunity allowed to the eighth graders of this charterschool district. The trip spanned the length of two weeks and covered much of New England.
Beginning May 16 the students departed for Memphis, Tennessee to experience the power of the National Civil Rights Museum. The U.S History eighth Grade Road Scholars Trip traveled to see Thomas Jefferson’s estate, Monticello, walk the very grounds of Washington’s Mount Vernon and see the beginnings of the first settlers in Jamestown, Yorktown and Williamsburg. The group of 235 students saw the great battlegrounds of Valley Forge and Gettysburg and the very place where the Declaration of Independence was signed.