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CAlliope Theatre Company Study Guide The Lost Treasure of Tortuga

Welcome to The Lost Treasure of Tortuga by Calliope Theatre Company.

Our touring production of The Lost Treasure of Tortuga, an original one hour presentation, has been designed to “Educate, Enlighten & Entertain!”

In this study guide, developed by professional educators and English-language teachers, you find Pre- and Post-Performance Activities and Discussion Topics, as well as teacher and student resources. For students who are learning English we have also included key vocabulary so that your students will get the most out of our performances. This study guide may be reproduced and distributed to students. It can be found on our website https://www.calliopetheatrecompany.pt/the-lost-treasure-of-tortuga

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The Lost Treasure of Tortuga TABLE OF CONTENTS The Vocabulary and Activities that are highlighted in red are the most important in ensuring that your students understand and enjoy The Lost Treasure of Tortuga. If you only have a limited amount of time to prepare your students for the show, we suggest you focus on these Vocabulary Items & Activities.

All of the Activities in our Study Guide may be copied and given to your students. The Answer Key for all of the Activities is on Pages 25 - 27.

THE LOST TREASURE OF TORTUGA – Play Synopsis 4 PIRATE, OR ? 4 WHO’s WHO IN THE PLAY – Captain Bligh 5 WHO’s WHO IN THE PLAY – 6 WHO’s WHO IN THE PLAY – Student Roles 8-12 VOCABULARY 13-14 VOCABULARY ACTIVITY – Adjectives- Antonyms & Synonyms Race 15 VOCABULARY ACTIVITY – Adjectives- Comparative & Superlative 16 VOCABULARY ACTIVITY – Nouns 17 PIRATE FLAG – Art & Imagination Activity 18 THE – Geography & Maths Activity 19 PIRATE STEW – Word Search Activity 20 THEATRE – Discuss & Draw Activity 21 WHO’S WHO IN THE THEATRE – Class Discussion Ideas 22 LIFE IN THE 17th CENTURY – History Activity 23-24 ACTIVITY ANSWERS 25-27 ABOUT THE ARTISTS 28

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Calliope Theatre Company’s Play – Synopsis

High Seas Adventure… Swashbuckling Sword Fights… and, of course, Treasure Chests Full of Gold! What’s not to like?

But Captain Morgan Blah (pronounced Bligh!) has had enough of life. He decides to hire his replacement, but proper pirate captains don’t come cheap! He needs gold… and lots of it! Captain Blah and his crew (your students!) must uncover Tortuga’s secrets to find the famed Lost Treasure! Joined by a mysterious ‘stowaway,’ Captain Blah encounters the island’s weird and wild natives in search of The Lost Treasure of Tortuga!

PIRATE, PRIVATEER, or BUCCANEER?

Terms like Pirate, Buccaneer, and Privateer are often used as synonyms. However, each of these terms has a separate and distinct meaning.

A Pirate is any person who uses the sea to commit theft. Pirates used boats to attack ports or ships. Above all else, pirates were breaking the law.

A Privateer is any individual granted license by their government to attack shipping belonging to an enemy government, usually during a war. raid enemy ships and keep a percentage of the spoils

A Buccaneer was either a Pirate or Privateer operating in the 4 Caribbean during the late 17th and early 18th century. The Lost Treasure of

Tortuga We have taken great liberty with the characterisation of Captain Morgan Blah (pronounced “Bligh”!). Our Captain Blah is based on two real-life sailors, Captain William Bligh and privateer (pirate) William Morgan. Here are brief biographies of each of them.

Captain William Bligh

William Bligh (9 September 1754 - 7 December 1817) was an officer of the British Royal Navy and colonial administrator. He is best known for the famous that occurred against his command aboard HMS Bounty. After the Bounty mutiny he became Governor of New South (Australia), where his stern rule caused another rebellion.

In 1787 Bligh became leader of a small expedition sent to Tahiti to get breadfruit trees. These would be planted in the West Indies as food for the slaves. The Bounty left Tahiti loaded with breadfruit trees and, after only three weeks, his first mate Fletcher Christian led a mutiny (take over) of the ship. Christian wanted to go back to Tahiti. This event is called the Mutiny on the Bounty. Bligh and 18 seamen were put into a small boat, with little food or water, four swords, a sextant, a pocket watch, but no map. Amazingly they were able to get to Batavia (now Jakarta), a distance of 6701 km, in just 47 days! Bligh finally got back to England and later travelled to Australia.

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The Lost Treasure of Tortuga HENRY MORGAN The Buccaneer King Despite the fact that some of his actions were brutal, Henry Morgan was not a pirate. The Welshman was a magnificent buccaneer, certainly the most famous one. Described as a remarkable leader and a fearsome conqueror, Morgan had a couple of legendary battles and his unique tactics brought him fame and wealth. As a youngster, Henry was an ambitious and very lively person who dreamt of being a sailor. Wanting to gain wealth and fame, he joined England’s navy to serve as a buccaneer. Finally, in 1662, he became a captain of a small privateering vessel and his many successful raids

made him very wealthy.

In 1669, Morgan was planning a large-scale attack on the Spanish port of Cartagena to gain a tremendous amount of treasure. But things did not go as planned. Many of his crew ended up drunk on rum, and they accidentally lit a fuse that ignited explosives on his ship, the Oxford, causing the ship to blow up and sink.

Over the years to come, Morgan returned to the site of the Oxford’s sinking three times, and was stopped each time by some unfortunate incident. He was never able to recover the treasure from the sunken ship. Captain Morgan Shipwreck Possibly Discovered! LiveScience, 2011 (edited)

Divers have found part of a shipwreck that could possibly belong to one of Captain Morgan's lost ships.

The divers found a 52-foot-long (15.8 meters) by 22- foot-wide (6.7 m) chunk of a ship's wooden hull. The ship's name isn't on the hull, but the archeologists gathered clues about the hull and are building their case that it was once part of the legendary buccaneer’s fleet.

The hull appears to have been built in the 17th century, when Morgan would have been sailing. It was found near the recent discovery of cannons believed from Captain Morgan's ships. The dive team also found chests filled with unknown booty and artifacts that will help identify the ship as one of Morgan's. 6

The Lost Treasure of Tortuga ACTIVITY #1 - Write a News article Have students write a news article about the discovery of a famous pirate ship. Who were the marine archaeologists? What did the divers discover? What modern technology did they use? Was their treasure? How much of the ship remained after hundreds of years.

Here’s a look at 5 famous Pirate Ships.

1. - Captained by Scottish sailor , the 287-ton, three-mast Adventure Galley and its crew hunted down pirates and enemy French ships to steal their treasure and goods. The Adventure Galley was outfitted with 34 guns, and 23 oars for maneuvering the ship in calm winds. Pirate hunting, it turned out, wasn't easy. Captain Kidd abandoned the Adventure Galley, which had developed a rotten hull, off the coast in 1698. 2. Queen Anne's Revenge - English pirate Edward “” Teach captured a French slave ship, in 1717. Slave ships made good pirate ships because they were built for speed. The Queen Anne's Revenge was one of the most powerful ships in American waters. Blackbeard eventually ran the ship ashore and many historians believe he wrecked the ship deliberately to kill off some of his crew and increase his share of the fortune. The ship was discovered in 1997 and marine archaeologists have been bringing up treasure from its remains ever since. 3. - In May 1694, while stationed aboard the ship, Charles II, Henry Avery plotted a mutiny that would launch his new and short-lived career as a pirate. Following the successful takeover, Avery, renamed the ship the Fancy and set out with his newly liberated crew to seek a fortune. The Fancy, which boasted nearly 50 guns and a crew of 150, terrorized ships in the and later the Bahamas. 4. Whydah - The Whydah was captured by pirates led by Samuel "Black Sam" Bellamy. It is• believed to have been carrying treasure from more than 50 ships when it sank in a storm off the coast of Cape Cod in 1717. Professional treasure hunter discovered the ship in 1984 and has since recovered more than 100,000 artifacts from the site. 5. Royal Fortune(s) - , a Welsh pirate in the Caribbean, first named his ship The Good Fortune and later changed the name to The Royal Fortune. But the ship never lived up to its “fortunate” or lucky name. Roberts died when The Royal Fortune sank, in 1722, in an attack by a British warship.

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The Lost Treasure of Tortuga Who Are You? Your students will be asked on stage to portray a number of historical characters!

CALICO JACK Captain Rackham would certainly be forgotten quickly, if not for the two women who sailed with him. Anne and Mary were more than “just woman pirates” because for the 18th century they broke society's strict rules and escaped traditional restrictions placed on women.

After his trial, the names of Calico Jack Rackham, Anne Bonney and , spread quickly throughout Europe and the Americas and they became legends, although in reality as pirates they were just a minor nuisance. Calico Jack and his crew were found guilty of the crime of . Anne and Mary were pardoned when it was discovered that they were both pregnant. Calico Jack was hanged with the rest of his crew.

ANNE BONNEY “I refuse to be bought and sold like cattle!” Anne Bonney did not disguise herself as a man as is often claimed. She took part in combat alongside the men on the ship and the accounts describe her as a competent “swordsman” who gained the respect of her fellow pirates. Although Bonney is one of the best-known pirates in history, she never commanded a ship of her own. Her fame derives from the fact that she was a rarity: a female pirate.

After Rackham and his crew were sentenced to be hanged, Bonney's last words to the imprisoned Calico Jack were that she was "sorry to see him there, but if he had fought like a Man, he need not have been hang'd like a Dog."

Evidence provided by her descendants suggests she was released from jail and returned to South Carolina, where she gave birth to Rackham's second child. In 1721 she re-married and later had eight children. She died in South Carolina, a respectable woman, at the age of eighty and was buried in 1782. BLACKBEAR

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The Lost Treasure of Tortuga Who Are You? Your students will be asked on stage to portray a number of historical characters!

Amelia Earhart Amelia Earhart was a famous female pilot. As a child she loved sports and liked to wear trousers rather than dresses. Amelia saw her first airplane at the age of eleven and later took flying lessons.

She became the first woman to fly solo across the and later became the first person to fly solo over both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

Amelia and her co-pilot took off in 1937 for a flight around the world. Her last radio transmission was received while she was over the Pacific Ocean. She was never heard from again. What actually happened to her has remained a mystery which people are still fascinated with today. CALAMITY JANE Calamity Jane was an explorer, guide and famous cowgirl in America’s “Wild West”. While she has been the subject of many books, movies, and even a character in the game, Fortnite, little is known about her real life. This is partly due to the fact that she was known as a “yarn spinner” and often told exaggerated tales of her life.

Born in 1852, as Martha Jane Cannary, she loved the outdoors and began riding horses at an early age. She would later grow up to look and act like a man, and shoot like a cowboy.

In 1870, she joined General George Custer as a scout in Wyoming, wearing the uniform of a soldier and later worked as a Pony Express rider delivering mail over the roughest trails in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

Although known as a reckless and daring rider and one of the best shots in the West, one of the less known facts of Calamity Jane’s life was the fact that she worked as a nurse when there was an outbreak of smallpox. Many others were too afraid to go anywhere near the sick and dying, yet Jane rolled up her sleeves and helped take care of them. 9

The Lost Treasure of Tortuga Who Are You? SACAGAWEA (1788 –1812?) Sacagawea was a Native American from the Shoshone Indian tribe. She was a major part of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804- 1806) to the Pacific Coast.

Sacagawea and her husband were hired to guide Lewis & Clark westward. Just before the expedition began, Sacagawea gave birth to a son. She carried the baby on her back during the entire journey.

Sacagawea proved very important to Lewis and Clark as she spoke two Native American languages.

Sacagawea had an incredible ability to track, and she had keen instincts about the land. Once they actually made it to the Pacific, Sacagawea pleaded for Lewis and Clark to let her go with a few of the men to see a whale that was washed up on the beach. Since she had played such a big role in their journey to the ocean, they decided to let her go with them.

Sacagawea is thought to have died of fever in 1812, although some accounts say she lived to be 100.

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The Lost Treasure of Tortuga Who Are You? Ferdinand Magellan (1480 –1521) Magellan was a Portuguese sea explorer who led an expedition to circumnavigate the globe.

Magellan was born near Porto. His parents died when he was ten, and at twelve Magellan became a page to King John II at the royal court in Lisbon. At the age of 20, Magellan went to sea and sailed to India, the East Indies and the Spice Islands.

Eventually, Magellan fell into disfavour with King Manuel I of Portugal so he offered his services to the court of . With his Portuguese cartographical (map making) knowledge, Magellan pointed out that a passage could exist from South America to the Pacific Ocean. The King of Spain approved Magellan's plan and in 1519, Magellan obtained five ships and set sail.

On November 20, Magellan crossed the equator and in December he sighted Brazil. He then sailed south along South America's east coast. The ships reached Rio de la Plata, but because of bad weather, the journey did not resume for 8 months. In August, 1520 his four ships began the arduous trip through the 373-mile long passage that Magellan named Estreito (Canal) de Todos los Santos or All Saints' Channel. Today this strait is called the Strait of Magellan. Magellan also named the ocean the Mar Pacifico (Pacific Ocean) because of its apparent stillness.

Unfortunately, Magellan died in the Philippines, but one of his ships circumnavigated the globe 16 months after the explorer's death.

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The Lost Treasure of Tortuga Who Are You? (1451 – 1506)

Christopher Columbus was a famous explorer, but he found something he wasn't looking for. In 1492, Columbus sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in search of India. What he found was something far different. He found the .

Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa in 1451. His family did not have a lot of money, so with very little education, Columbus went to sea. He sailed around the Mediterranean and as far north as England and Ireland.

When he was 25, he was shipwrecked and found his way ashore to Portugal. In Portugal he met the woman who would be his wife, but sadly, she died soon after their son, Diego, was born. After that, Columbus took his son to Spain.

During his travels, Columbus had heard sailors' reports of land to the west of the and Azores Islands, west of Portugal. He wanted to know more and studied maps and books on geography. These books and maps suggested, based on stories of Marco Polo and others who travelled to Asia, that the Far East wasn't all that far away. Columbus was convinced that Japan was only 3,000 miles west of Portugal and 3,000 miles was a distance that ships could travel in those days.

Columbus decided that if he sailed far enough west, he would eventually travel around the world and reach the East. Columbus knew of Portugal’s great reputation for exploration so he asked Portugal's King John II for money and ships for his voyage. King John refused, so Columbus went to Spain. At first, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella also refused. It took seven years before Columbus could convince them to finance his journey.

In 1492, Columbus set sail with three ships, The Nina, The Pinta and The Santa Maria. The voyage across the Atlantic Ocean was long and frightening and many of the sailors on his ships threatened mutiny. Columbus promised his crew on October 10 that if they did not see land in the next three days, they would turn back. On October 12, they saw land. They landed at San Salvador, in the Bahamas. They met friendly natives there and then sailed on to and to .

Columbus arrived back in Lisbon, Portugal, in March 1493. He met with Portugal's King John, then 12 travelled to Barcelona, Spain, to meet with King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. Each time, Columbus made the claim that he had reached islands very near Asia. He showed gold, artifacts, and even natives that he had brought back with him. Spain's king and queen were so pleased that they gave him money and ships for three more voyages The Lost Treasure of Tortuga Vocabulary The following is a list of some of the vocabulary from the play which teachers may choose to pre-teach before the performance. VERBS To eat To drink To hide To sail To fetch (to get) To steal To try To swim To behave To destroy To crush To eat To offer To keep To hurry To take control To hug To kiss To marry To embrace To hide To faint To dance To capture To search To seek To find To release To warn To protect To be sorry To go mad (crazy) To scare To lie To trick To disguise To read (a map) To trust To spend To leave To hate To decide To laugh To abandon ship

NOUNS Sea Storm Telescope Stowaway Sack Path Island Bamboo Cage Rock Castle Creatures Monster Sea Monster Gorilla Husband Sister Bananas Sack Secret Map Treasure Treasure Hunt Clue Sail Captain First Mate Crew Lady Tortuga Troll Embrace Children Teacher Explorers Rovers Thief Cage Warning Joke Pun

EXPRESSIONS All the rage (to be very popular) Show some enthusiasm! (Show you’re Excited!) To give up (to quit)

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The Lost Treasure of Tortuga Vocabulary

ADJECTIVES Dark Terrible Horrible Crazy Shrunken Small Nasty Evil Terrifying Scary Useless Hairy Ugly Tall Bad Smelly Murderous Awful Mad Tired Bored Brainless Ugly Dangerous Dark Unfair Rich Wonderful Exciting Feared Fresh Clean Unfair Confusing Lost Handsome Hidden Behind Close Rude Final Hungry Thirsty Safe Boring Dull Small Expensive

Superlatives Scariest Craziest Most Feared

PIRATE PHRASES Aye, Aye, Captain! Shiver my timbers! Rattle my rafters! Blow my bellows! Avast Me Mateys! The Seven Seas Thar she blows! Land Ahoy! Hoist the mizzen! Landlubber! Scurvey Dog! Saltwater swine! Man Over-Board! Booty Dubloons Pieces of Eight

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ACTIVITY # 2 – Vocabulary- AdJECTIVES Below are adjectives from the vocabulary list. Allow students 2-5 minutes to write as many words as possible.

RACE #1 – ANTONYMS - Ask students to think of as many words as they can that mean the opposite of the word below.

RACE #2 – SYNONYMS - Ask students to think of as many words as they can that mean the same as of the word below.

1.) Hungry 2.) Dark 3.) Clean 4.) Exciting 5.) Fresh 6.) Handsome 7.) Boring 8.) Horrible 9.) Expensive 10.) Evil 11.) Scary 12.) Small 15

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ACTIVITY # 3 – Vocabulary- Comparative & Superlative AdJECTIVES

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ACTIVITY # 4 – Vocabulary – NOUNS

Ask students to select the nouns from the list and put them into the correct related categories below. (The maximum number of words per category is indicated in brackets.)

NOUNS

Sea Husband Gorilla Explorers Captain Telescope Sail Lady Crew Cage Thief Sea Monster Castle Tortuga Storm Island Sister Water Sack Rovers Secret Troll Stowaway Joke First Mate

People (10) Places (4) Objects/Things (10) ______Creatures/Animals (3) ______

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Blackbeard’s Flag Calico Jack’s Flag

Pirates sailed under flags called “Jolly Rogers.” The name “” either comes from the French term “Joli Rouge” meaning “pretty red” or from an old English expression for the Devil, “Old Roger.”

If a pirate flag was all red, it meant “no quarter given” and that there would be no survivors after the attack. So in many ways it was better to see the black “Jolly Roger” flag on an approaching pirate ship because it meant that you might survive either to be kidnapped to work on the pirate ship, held for ransom or sold into .

Each Pirate had their own flag and usually they were designed by the pirate himself. They were designed to strike terror in their victims. For example, the Pirate Emmanuel Wayne had an hour glass on his flag to show his victims that their “time was running out.”

Common Symbols on a Pirate Flag Hour glass Skull Dagger Bleeding hearts Crossed Bones Skeletons Sword

ACTIVITY # 5 – MAKE YOUR OWN PIRATE FLAG!

Ask students to design their own flag that includes symbols of who they are and also symbols that show what they want people to think of them.

For an example, if a student loves to listen to music, they could put headphones on the skull or if they love to play guitar, their “Jolly Roger” could have crossed guitars instead of crossed bones.

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ACTIVITY # 6 – Geography & Maths Sailing the Caribbean

Captain Blah and Blackbeard are in a race around the Caribbean. Captain Blah’s ship, The Oxford, could sail 15 knots (27 kms per hour). Blackbeard’s ship was much larger and heavier and could only sail about 9 knots (17 km per hour.)

Blackbeard sailed from the Bahamas to (790 kms), then to (1920 kms) then back to the Dominican Republic (1350 kms).

Captain Blah sailed from the Bahamas to Aruba (1593kms), then to the Cayman Islands (1375kms) and then to the Dominican Republic (1097kms)

How many kilometres did each travel and how long did it take them (days or hours)? Who won the race?

Captain Blah - ______or ______Kilometres Hours Days

Blackbeard - ______or ______Kilometres Hours Days

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ACTIVITY # 7 – PIRATE STEW – Find the following words in the puzzle below. TROLL TORTUGA TREASURE MAP CAPTAIN TEACHER CAGE GORILLA CASTLE PIRATE SEA MONSTER TELESCOPE

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THEATRE

~ Theatre features live on-stage actors. They have spent many weeks rehearsing for the performance.

~ The audience is a very important part of the performance. The success of the play often depends on the audience and their enthusiasm and participation.

~ It is easy to identify with live actors. You can see how they use their bodies and voices to convey different emotions.

~ Actors wear clothing and make-up to help create the characters they play.

~ There is much more to most live performances than actors. Special scenery, effects, lighting, music, costumes, and of course, the audience add to the total experience.

ACTIVITY #8 – Discuss & DRAW!

1.) What was your favourite part of the play? Who was your favourite

character and why?

2.) What is the difference between TV and a live play? Which do you like better and why?

3.) Draw a picture of a favourite scene or character.

4.) Design a programme cover for the play using the title, and an illustration inspired by the play.

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Who’s Who at the Theatre

The Writer researches and then writes the dialogue of the play.

The Director reads the script and then interprets the story, using the talents of Actors, Designers and Technicians.

The Set Designer works with the Director to determine the different “looks” that will be used in each scene to tell the story.

The Costume Designer works with the Director to determine the costumes (clothing) that each performer will wear that will help to tell more about each character in the story.

The Actors work with the Director to tell the story through their voices, their faces, and their body movements.

ACTIVITY #9 – Class Discussions

1.) Pretend that you are the Writer of The Lost Treasure of Tortuga. What other ideas would you have added to the play?

2.) Think about ACTIVITYwhat the actors #11 did – Discuss on stage, &where Write! they were standing,

how they moved and how they said their lines. How did the Director use these things to tell the story?

3.) What would you need to know to create costumes for a play (clothing 22 of the era, colors, sewing, etc.)? Why is the right costume important to the character in the play?

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ACTIVITY # 10 – HISTORY FAMILY LIFE IN THE 1600s Life in the 17th century if you were an ordinary person was far from warm, loving and caring.

A typical household usually included the family as well as lodgers and hired hands. Women gave birth to between 8-10 children. Infant and child mortality was high. One of every three infants died before the age of one. Another third died before adulthood.

For adults, the average life span was shorter. In addition, many women died in child birth and the plague killed thousands. Many kids grew up without parents.

Children left the home to work full -time as shepherds, cowherds or apprentices at age of 7 or 8. All were gone by age of 15. Daughters remained at home until married.

"Good mothering is an invention of modernization." Very young children were untended and alone for much of the day. There are many accounts of children burning to death because they were left alone by the fire. There are even reports of un-watched children being eaten by barnyard pigs.

Parents were reluctant to form strong emotional bonds with a child who was probably going to die. If a child wandered away, he or she was soon forgotten by their parents.

It was crowded! Most families lived in one-room houses. Families shared their one-room houses with livestock and poultry! The one- room was very small. At night, beds were laid on the floor and all the adults and children crowded together for warmth.

Everyone was crawling with lice. A bath was a rare event. Everyone stank. If someone was sick with something, everyone got it.

Marriages were economic arrangements -for money, land, and labour. Emotional attachments were of no importance to parents who arranged the marriages.

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ACTIVITY # 10 – HISTORY WHAT DID THEY EARN?

Wages were low for the average 17th century person. The typical daily wage for a labourer was about 8 pence (cents) per day.

Most labouring people rarely ate meat. When they did it was usually mutton. A quarter of mutton was two shillings (24 cents.) A "fat pig" was one shilling, four pence (16 cents.) WANT TO GO TO SEA?

Impressment, known as, "the Press", was the forcing of men to serve in a navy during wartime. Any man between the ages of 18 to 45 could be forced to sea. And in many cases they were simply kidnapped off the streets and never heard from again.

Many “impressed” sailors were happy to join a pirate crew...if the pirates allowed them to live

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

1.) In the 1600s, why would someone be happy to become a pirate? How would their life be better? How would it be worse?

2.) Ask students to compare their family life with family life in the 17th century. How are they different? What would they like and dislike about living in the 17th century.

3.) We all sometimes dream about living in a different time and place. Ask students to choose a time and place they think they would have liked to live. Then ask students to research that era on the internet. What did they find that might make them change their mind.

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The Lost Treasure of Tortuga ANSWERS ACTIVITY # 2 – Vocabulary-Adjectives – Antonyms & Synonyms Possible Answers

Adjective Antonym Synonym Hungry Full Starving Dark Light Obscure, Gloomy, Dim Clean Dirty Spotless Exciting Boring Thrilling Fresh Stale, Old Clean Handsome Ugly Good-looking, Attractive Boring Exciting Dull, Uninteresting Horrible Wonderful Terrible, Awful Expensive Inexpensive, Cheap Costly, High-priced Evil Good, Kind Wicked, Nasty Scary Safe, Calming Frightening, Creepy Small Big, Large Little, Tiny

ACTIVITY # 3 – Vocabulary-AdJECTIVES – Comparatives & Superlatives ANSWERS: ADJECTIVE COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIVE Old Older Oldest Young Younger Youngest High Higher Highest Low Lower Lowest Happy Happier Happiest Short Adjectives Sad Sadder Saddest Cold Colder Coldest Hot Hotter Hottest Tall Taller Tallest Short Shorter Shortest Fast Faster Fastest Slow Slower Slowest

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The Lost Treasure of Tortuga ANSWERS ACTIVITY # 3 – Vocabulary-AdJECTIVES – Comparatives & Superlatives

ANSWERS:

ADJECTIVE COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIVE Exciting More Exciting Most Exciting Boring More Boring Most Boring Popular More Popular Most Popular Long Adjectives Difficult More Difficult Most Difficult Enjoyable More Enjoyable Most Enjoyable Dangerous More Dangerous Most Dangerous Beautiful More Beautiful Most Beautiful Interesting More Interesting Most Interesting Comfortable More Comfortable Most Comfortable

ADJECTIVE COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIVE Bad Worse Worst Irregular Adjectives Little Less Least Many (or Much) More Most Far Farther Farthest

ACTIVITY #4 – Vocabulary - Nouns ANSWERS: PEOPLE PLACES CREATURES and ANIMALS OBJECTS/THINGS Sister Sea Gorilla Telescope Lady Island Sea Monster Sail Crew Castle Troll Cage Husband Tortuga Storm Stowaway Water Captain Treasure First Mate Sack Thief Map Explorers Secret Rovers Joke

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ACTIVITY # 6 – Geography & Maths ANSWERS: Captain Blah - 4,065 kms - 150.55 hours or 6.27 days Blackbeard – 4,060 kms - 238.82 hours or 9.95 days

ACTIVITY # 7 – Pirate Stew ANSWERS:

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The Lost Treasure of Tortuga About the Artists

Stori Maree (Trixie the Troll) Stori is excited to be making her Calliope Theatre Company debut this coming season! She has a background in musical theatre and concert choir, appearing in regional productions of Fiddler on the Roof and Oklahoma!, and was a freestyle level 4 figure skater. At O’More College of Design, she completed her BFA in Interior Design, with additional concentrations in scenic design, and garment and pattern construction. Stori performed with The Gallatin Players while she continued her education at NYU. A Vinyasa yoga instructor, she moved Portugal in 2017, specializing in making Vinyasa accessible to beginners.

Meg Thurin (Lady Mary Joseph, First Mate Joseph Mary, Trudi the Troll) graduated from John Cabot University with a Bachelor of Arts and received her postgraduate degree from the Istituto Arte Artiginato e Restauro, Rome, Italy. Since moving to Portugal in 2009, Meg has worked with Avalon Theatre Company, participated in various voice-over projects and has performed in a TV sitcom pilot filmed in Lisbon. Most recently, Meg became the featured voice for iClio's - JiTT Travel app guides for many major cities in Europe. Meg is Artistic Director as well as a co-founder of Calliope Theatre Company. She looks forward to seeing the

teachers and students that she met during her 5 years with Avalon Theatre Company

Matthew Lloyd (Captain Morgan Blah) In his work with The Ferndown Drama Group, Huntington Drama Group, Chesil Theatre and the Royal Navy Theatre Association, Matthew has acted in a variety of full-length works including pantomimes and dramatic plays such as Wind in the Willows (Toad) and Pygmalion. Matthew has directed such works as The Anniversary and Steel Magnolias and has served as Stage Manager for a variety of theatre companies. Matthew has an MBA from Cranfield School of Management. After his 17 years in the British Royal Navy (including time spent with NATO, Portugal), Matthew

moved permanently to Cascais. Matthew is a co-founder of Calliope Theatre Company.

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