Eleventh Grade Travel

New York City Trip

The eleventh graders complete their blocks in History through Music with a week of museums, music and theatre. Accompanied by school directors and the ninth graders, they negotiate ‘The City’ by subway, sample ethnic cuisine, visit galleries, and attend concerts. The academic focus of the trip is music: the students see an opera, take a backstage tour of the Met, attend a rehearsal of the New York Philharmonic and discuss the music and orchestral history with the musicians. Evenings are filled with Broadway plays. Afterward, students are asked to articulate their reactions to the theatre they’ve seen; through their participation in these discussions, eleventh graders continue to refine their critical thinking skills.