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You Wouldn't Want to Be a Pirate's Prisoner! BOOK HOUSE WWW.SALARIYA.COM You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Pirate’s Prisoner! Teachers’ Information Sheet by Nicky Milsted The book follows the captain of a Spanish treasure galleon on his attempted voyage in 1716 from the Spanish Main back home to Spain. The Spanish Main is the name given to the parts of the Caribbean that make up Spain’s New World Empire. It includes present-day Florida, Texas and Mexico; Central America; the north coast of South America; and islands in the Caribbean Sea including Cuba and Jamaica. The ship is packed with riches, including emeralds, pearls, timber, porcelain, silk, spices and gold. It is sailing in a convoy, known as a fleet, with six other ships to try and stay safe – there’s safety in numbers. However, given its precious cargo, it is very definitely a target for pirates! Pirates are common in the Spanish Main – many used to be privateers (the name given to sailors from England, France and Holland, who had permission from their governments to attack Spanish ships and steal the precious cargo for their nations’ benefit). Privateering has stopped, but many of the old privateers are now pirates – keeping their stolen loot for themselves! The galleon falls behind the rest of the fleet, and is captured by pirates. The captain is taken prisoner. He is tortured by the pirate crew, who are trying to discover the whereabouts and intended route of the other treasure ships. The captain is determined not to give the pirates the information they are after. He is thrown into the hold of the pirates’ ship, and then shackled to the deck. He is flogged and keelhauled (dragged underneath the ship attached to a rope), thrown overboard and used as target practice. He is tortured with fire, and when he finally breaks down and tells the pirate captain where the fleet of treasure ships is heading, he is marooned on a deserted island. It is very clear indeed that You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Pirate’s Prisoner! About pirates and privateering Piracy is the name given to robberies undertaken at sea. Acts of piracy are usually violent in nature. The people who commit acts of piracy are called pirates. Privateering is very similar to piracy – certainly if you were on the receiving end of it! However, pirates act for themselves, whereas privateers were endorsed or backed by their governments, and their acts of robbery were seen as part of a legitimate war between countries. Many privateers went on to become pirates when their government backing was withdrawn and their actions were no longer acts of war but for personal gain. Ships trading between different lands have been targeted by pirates for thousands of years. In fact it is probably the case that ever since people have been taking vessels to sea there have been pirates attacking them. There are even reports of pirate raids occurring in ancient Egypt nearly The Salariya Book Company Ltd © MMXVI You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Pirate’s Prisoner! BOOK HOUSE WWW.SALARIYA.COM 4,000 years ago! Pirates have originated from all countries and peoples – ancient Greek and Roman pirates attacked ships and seized people as slaves. Vikings in particular are famous for their piratical looting across northern Europe and beyond. In some parts of the world in the 21st century pirates are still amongst the biggest threats to ocean-going vessels. International waters off of the coast of Somalia in Africa and parts of the Indian Ocean are particularly dangerous. Piracy in the Caribbean (or the Spanish Main), which is the subject of You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Pirate’s Prisoner!, was at its height from around 1650 to the 1720s. The rise of piracy in this part of the world coincided with the expansion and development of the Empires of several European powers – those belonging to the Dutch, French, English and Spanish. Many European ships were sailing from the Caribbean back to Europe laden with goods and valuables from their Caribbean colonies. Cargoes included gold, timber (from the rainforests of South America), silk and calico fabrics, spices, precious stones such as emeralds, and much more. After 1720, piracy in the Caribbean and across the Atlantic Ocean became much less frequent due to the British Royal Navy actively hunting down and capturing pirate vessels. Pirates who were captured were often hanged for their crimes, and more notorious pirates – such as William “Captain” Kidd and “Calico” Jack Rackham – had their bodies left hanging in specially constructed metal cages (called gibbets) until all that was left of them was their bones! Activity 1: Become a pirate Encourage your pupils to create themselves a pirate character for their adventures in the world of piracy. They will need to come up with a good pirate name – they could be inspired by real pirates, like Blackbeard, the Barbarossa Brothers or Captain Kidd; or they could opt to make up a name that they think would scare their prisoners and crew such as John “Shark of the Seas” Gunn, Stella “Flaming hair” Fitten, or Jack “Scoundrel” Dundas. If your pupils need inspiration to help them to create their pirate names, you can use the pirate name generator. Once your pupils have chosen their pirate name, ask them to describe and draw themselves as a pirate using the activity sheet. Why not try… pirate speed-dating? In pairs, ask your pupils to interview each other as pirates. Activity 2: Joining the pirate crew There are lots of different roles aboard a pirate ship. The captain is the head of the ship. The captain is a ruthless and frightening man (or woman!) with a knack for getting exactly what he or she wants. The quartermaster is the ship’s second in command and is often responsible for torturing prisoners. The ship’s surgeon is responsible for looking after the crew – he uses a saw (and no anaesthetic!) to amputate wounded limbs. The carpenter maintains and mends the ship’s timbers; he’s good with a saw, so can do surgeons’ work as well! The sailmaker looks after the ship’s sails and other items made from canvas. The navigator is responsible for ensuring the ship © MMXVI The Salariya Book Company Ltd © MMXVI You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Pirate’s Prisoner! BOOK HOUSE WWW.SALARIYA.COM sails a safe course and for helping to track down treasure ships to attack. Coopers make and repair the barrels which store the ship’s food and drink. And ordinary seamen do all the other essential tasks aboard the ship: cleaning the decks, manning pumps, hauling the sails up and down, and much more. Challenge your pupils to write a job advert for one of the roles in the pirate crew, or to produce a poster to encourage people to join the crew. Extension activity: There have been too many applications to join the pirate crew. Appoint a panel of pupils as members of the crew, including the pirate captain, and ask them to conduct job interviews of the potential crew members. You could ask the candidates to prepare a CV or complete a job application form; the panel should decide on the questions to ask the candidates. What characteristics are they looking for in their pirate crew? Activity 3: Treasure cargoes Treasure cargoes from the 17th and 18th centuries included exotic goods and foods that would not have been available in Europe. Prized materials included gold, emeralds and pearls, porcelain, silk and spices. Your pupils can use the activity sheet to explain which items they would choose to include in their treasure cargoes. Imagined monetary values and weights have been given to a range of different objects (using modern-day currency and measures) on the activity sheets. There are some maths questions using these figures that challenge your pupils to work out the total value and weight of different cargoes. For example, if a chest of pearls weighs 5kg and is worth £500, and a chest of gold weighs 10kg and is worth £1500, what would the value and weight be of three chests of pearls and two chests of gold? (Answer: 35kg and £4500) Extension activity: using the treasure cargo facts, can your pupils come up with some maths challenges of their own to try out on their classmates? Activity 4: A song for the pirates Pirates spent a long time on board their ships looking for treasure-carrying galleons to attack. What better way to pass the time than a bit of a pirate sing-song to keep the pirate crew entertained and ready for the fight of boarding and capturing a galleon? Challenge your pupils to come up with some words (and a tune) for a pirate song. Why not try… creating a large pirate ship out of cardboard that can be used as scenery, and performing some of your pirate songs in a school assembly? © MMXVI The Salariya Book Company Ltd © MMXVI You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Pirate’s Prisoner! BOOK HOUSE WWW.SALARIYA.COM Activity 5: Torture, pirate style! The piratical methods of torture described in You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Pirate’s Prisoner! are barbaric. They included: ● Being thrown in the hold; the hold is the inside of the ship, where cargo is stored. The hold was dark, stale, smelly, wet and full of rats. A prisoner in the hold would lose all sense of time and be hungry and tired. It was a form of mental torture. ● Being shackled to the deck; clamped to the deck in heavy leg irons called bilboes, a prisoner shackled to the deck would be exposed to the wind, rain, freezing cold of night time and blistering sunshine.
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