MONTICELLO — On Tuesday, March 5, Mr. Jenks and Ms. Grote’s Syracuse University Project Advance (SUPA) US History Classes from Monticello High School took a trip down to The Tenement Museum in New York City. They participated in a tour called “100 Years Apart” where they got to see restored Tenement dwellings from 1860 and another one in the same building from 1960. The families who lived in those apartments had their stories told from census records which shed light on the struggles of the time and showed how such information can be used to tell a story. Students are currently learning about immigration at the turn of the century, and this tour brought tangible light to their studies.  

Syracuse University Project Advance (SUPA) is an educational program that provides high school students with the opportunity to take Syracuse University courses in their own schools during the regularly scheduled school day. Monticello High School is pleased to be able to offer several of these courses to its students allowing them to graduate high school with college credit under their belt.