INTRODUCTION
Wear a pirate hat and head scarf. Pin a stuffed parrot to your shoulder and address your group as “Ahoy me hearties! Arrr! Listen up, ‘tis the captain talking.”
Wear a pirate hat and head scarf. Pin a stuffed parrot to your shoulder and address your group as “Ahoy me hearties! Arrr! Listen up, ‘tis the captain talking.”
POEM
A Ballad of John Silver (excerpt)
By John Masefield
We were schooner-rigged and rakish, with a long an’ lissome hull,
And we flew the pretty colors of the crossbones and the skull;
We'd a big black Jolly Roger flapping grimly at the fore,
And we sailed the Spanish Water in the happy days of yore.
We'd a long brass gun amidships, like a well-conducted ship,
We had each a brace of pistols and a cutlass at the hip;
It's a point which tells against us, and a fact to be deplored,
But we chased the goodly merchantmen and laid their ships aboard.
Ah! The pigtailed, quidding pirates and the pretty pranks we played,
All have since been put a stop-to by the naughty Board of Trade;
The schooners and the merry crews are laid away to rest,
A little south the sunset in the Islands of the Blest.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Hague, Michael. 2001. THE BOOK OF PIRATES. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 0876141432
EXTENSION
Pass out copies of common pirate sayings found at http://www.yarr.org.uk/talk/ and have the students try them out while enjoying a cup of apple juice “grog.”
A Ballad of John Silver (excerpt)
By John Masefield
We were schooner-rigged and rakish, with a long an’ lissome hull,
And we flew the pretty colors of the crossbones and the skull;
We'd a big black Jolly Roger flapping grimly at the fore,
And we sailed the Spanish Water in the happy days of yore.
We'd a long brass gun amidships, like a well-conducted ship,
We had each a brace of pistols and a cutlass at the hip;
It's a point which tells against us, and a fact to be deplored,
But we chased the goodly merchantmen and laid their ships aboard.
Ah! The pigtailed, quidding pirates and the pretty pranks we played,
All have since been put a stop-to by the naughty Board of Trade;
The schooners and the merry crews are laid away to rest,
A little south the sunset in the Islands of the Blest.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Hague, Michael. 2001. THE BOOK OF PIRATES. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 0876141432
EXTENSION
Pass out copies of common pirate sayings found at http://www.yarr.org.uk/talk/ and have the students try them out while enjoying a cup of apple juice “grog.”
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