Travel back in time in this award winning program to the seafaring world of Richard Henry Dana Jr.’s Two Years Before the Mast. Students sign aboard as greenhands for a two year “voyage” from Boston to Alta California in the 1830s. While immersed in early California history and working with a variety of dynamic historical characters, students gain skills in cooperative learning, teamwork, and communication as they hoist cargo, row long-boats, raise sails, stand night watch, swab the decks, and sing chanteys.

4th:HSS 1.1, 1.2, 2.2, 2.4, 2.5; AS CST 1, 2; RE 1, 2; HI 1, 2; LA LR 3.0; SF 3.1; NA 3.2, 3.3
5th: HSS 8.5; AS CST 3, 4; RE 3, 4; HI 3, 4; LA LR 3.4; SF 3.1; NA 3.2, 3.3