NEBC Happenings
A few weeks ago, faculty of the Edward Brooke Charter School in Mattapan reached out to New England Base Camp to do a survival field trip capstone to finish out what they had been learning in school.
In ELA, students have read Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, To Build a Fire by Jack London, excerpts from Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George and are about to begin Lord of the Fies by William Golding. They have studied motifs specific to the survival fiction genre, analyzed the use of literary devices, and studied Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
The school was able to fundraise money to be able to complete the trip to New England Base Camp for some hands-on practice of various survival skills, such as lighting fires with flint and steel, purifying and drinking stream water, chopping wood with hatchets, building shelters with materials found in the woods, and of course, archery and axe throwing. The students were engaged in all these activities and couldn't have been more excited to play!
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