March 6, 2014

“Scholastic Journalism Adventure Camps featuring historic Charleston venues coming to Charleston, South Carolina”

A Backpack Journalist is offering a series of 5-day and overnight camps in Charleston, South Carolina with each beginning in a mobile classroom and instruction on digital photography and writing.  The participants then spend the next 2-3 days in active field trips where they will have access to behind the scenes artifacts, curators, staff experts and experience hands on learning! Following the return to the mobile classroom, each youth will write about their experience and share their photos to create a 9” x 12” portfolio book in color complete with an E book.  Imagine, all youth published and the ages: 12-17. All youth receive a copy of their published works, and the portfolio book will be offered on line via Amazon and A Backpack Journalist on line store.

Historic Charleston, South Carolina venues include:  The Charleston Museum, the oldest in America (1773), Patriot’s Point, USS Yorktown, The Flight Academy, The Coast Guard Station, NOAA Weather Station, plus the coast line and inland waterways, touring in a kayak.  A Backpack Journalist Scholastic Journalism Camps educate and engage youth as they have fun learning, and then captures in print and digital, their experiences.  Our camps include a behind the scenes trip to the Post and Courier, the South’s oldest newspaper, to observe “news” in the making.

An Adventure back in time:  The Charleston Museum – 1773.

June 2-6, 2014 or July 28 – August 1, 2014

Our Homeland: Patriot’s Point, The US Coast Guard Station and the NOAA Weather Station.

June 23-27, 2014   June 30 – July 5^th -SPECIAL JULY 4^th CAMP CELEBRATION    July 21-25, 2014                                             

 Low Country Nature: Naturalist led kayaking trips.

June 16-20, 2014 or July 14-18, 2014

 About A Backpack Journalist:  The core of the “A Backpack Journalist” curriculum helps the youth and adult learners to develop their writing skills while underneath finding  their “voice” and a means to express themselves.  Writing is at the foundation of the curricula.  Photography, Song Writing, Digital Storytelling and Cowboy Poetry complete the curriculum.  The curriculum is offered in an open classroom with a mobile lab-based learning environment.  “Cover the Assignment” is the module that provides the youth with a real world experience, i.e. – reporting from the event or assignment.  The program has been used extensively by the National Guard and US Army Youth Programs during deployment cycles, and today in select schools across the United States.   Please visit the website and the YOUTUBE channel for short movies of youth – the “backpackers” at work.

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