6th-8th Grade Duluth Trip

Middle School Students at Southside have the option of participating in Travel Studies through Southside’s History Club. As part of this program, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth graders will head to Duluth for 3 days and 2 nights. We depart at 8am on Tuesday, Oct 8, and return in time for students to ride their regular busses home on Thursday, October 10. 

When we travel, the bus becomes a mobile classroom. As we travel north, they’ll study some of the endless number of ways that Treaties Matter in the present (see http://treatiesmatter.org/exhibit/ if you’re interested in learning a little more). We’ll also study Duluth’s history of resistance to white supremacy, focusing special attention on events surrounding the horrific Duluth Lynchings. 

While in Duluth, we’ll make time for the Karapeles Museum, Duluth Insitute of Arts, a possible visit with Mayor Emily Larson, the American Indian Housing Agency, Snake River Fur Post, and, weather permitting, lots of skipping rocks on Lake Superior.