...from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
- Abraham Lincoln, November 19, 1863, Gettysburg Pennsylvania
Significant in Meadowbrook's Seventh Grade curriculum is The Civil War, and with it the elements of leadership, responsibility, and citizenship. The key turning point in the war was the Battle of Gettysburg, a three-day encounter that realized more casualties than any other battle, before or since, on American soil.
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Led by our Headmaster, Stephen Hinds, a Civil War aficionado and expert, and Meadowbrook's 7th Grade history teacher Jon Boger, our Seventh Grade students are granted an unparalleled educational experience outside the classroom and on the battlefield of Gettysburg. Students witness firsthand the battle strategy behind the Union securing Little Round Top; walk the path of the Confederate's 15,000-man assault of Pickett's Charge; and stand on the spot where President Lincoln recited the Gettysburg Address...with students provided the opportunity to recite it aloud in front of their peers.
Before returning home from Gettysburg, the class then visits Washington, DC. This second part of the journey is about citizenship — what makes American citizenship special and unique. As these students will focus on the meaning of global citizenship in Eighth Grade, they first learn and experience what it means to be an American citizen. To that end, students experience the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the Jefferson Memorial, the Washington Monument, the World War II, Vietnam, and Korean War Memorials, and the Lincoln Memorial.
