Were there real pirates? Why do pirates wear patches and gold earrings? How do designers use math to get a boat in the theatre and pirate clothes that fit?

Find out in this Study Guide

For All Patrons About the Story and the Play’s Author/Director 1-2 Going from Page to Stage 2-4 Themes to Discuss & Write About 5-6 Did you know??? 6 Theatre Etiquette 11 Performance Evaluation 12

Especially for K-5 Patrons Land HO! Mapping Skills 7 Three GOLD Teeth MATH 8

For Middle School Patrons Code (writing) 9 Deep Sea Math 10 Information to Grow Students’ Understanding & Appreciation of Sophie and the Pirates a buccaneering story by Gay H. Hammond

A Pirates Life for me?

People are fascinated with pirates. There are and built it up to over 1,000 ships and over LOTS of books and movies about pirates, and 80,000 men who terrorized the South China Sea. you probably know people who have dressed While she didn’t follow the laws of the land, she up like pirates for Halloween -- or maybe it was created strict rules for her ships, and anyone who YOU who donned a sword and ? broke her law was decapitated. (yikes!)

In truth, pirates In the early 1880s, Scotish writer Robert Louis were REAL Stevenson used his imagination to write a bad guys who fictional adventure story about pirates: were violent Island. His book became VERY popular and robbers; they created lots of the ideas about pirates that are didn’t abide not based in truth (like treasure maps, peg legs by the law and and parrots!). took things (boats, jewelry, Read on to find out about , crew mates) from anyone they could overpower. burying treasure, and why pirates wore eye And while we think of pirates during what is patches and earrings. called “the Golden Age of Pirates” mid-1600s- 1700s, pirates have been around as long as boats have been around -- not just in the Carribean but on all the worlds oceans.

You might be surprised to know that, while most pirates were fierce men, some very successful pirates were women. was an Irish lass with flowing red hair who married pirate John Bonny, and was promptly disowned by her respectable family. Her best friend was , an English woman who, unlike Anne who wore dresses, dressed as a man so she could join the British military. When her ship was captured by pirates, they thought she was a man and pressed her to join them ~ so she did!

One of the most feared pirates of all time was 1 Ching Shih, a woman who married into . When her husband died, she took over his fleet Who wrote this piratical story??

Gay H. Hammond is Director of WonderQuest daugher played the role of Sophie when it was and Resident Dramatist of the first performed in 2005. (She is now a Gainesville Theatre Alliance. Repeat professional actor and teacher in WonderQuest patrons Atlanta.) recognize her as the playwright who directed and penned Ms. Hammond has been the script for last year’s working in theatre for Jungle Book and as the lady over 35 years and, in that who gives away a T-shirt to time, has written over 40 some lucky student at each plays, both for young and performance. general audiences. She loves children’s literature (she is Most often, Ms. Hammond really good at reading a story adapts classic stories like The and making different voices for Emperor’s New Clothes or all the characters!) and she loves Charlotte’s Web into stage scripts, to write plays for children. Some but every so often she creates a of her favorite plays include The story that is completely new. When Ms. Briar Patch, Sleeping Beauty, Stone Soup Hammond wrote this play, she wanted a pirate and Alice in Wonderland. She loves to play with adventure, AND she wanted to write a story for words and is also the long-time Wordsmith and her daughter, who was a brave little girl who Emcee for the Hall County Literacy Spelling Bee! liked to get people to play well together. Her

Meet some of the CREATIVE people who took this pirate story from page to stage! If you have never been to a play, you may now 12 years ago. He know that, unlike a movie, you will be seeing lives in New York real people, called actors, act out the characters City now, working of Sophie and various pirates right in front of with costumes on your -- and they are listening for your different theatre response! and film projects, and he came back In addition to the actors’ ability to “pretend” to Gainesville to they are different people, part of what helps us design for Sophie go “into the story” and imagine we are there too (and see his parents is the costume design (character’s clothes), and and brothers). the scenic design which creates a setting to help us understand the action in the story. William began by reading the WonderQuest is happy to welcome back two script and talking alumni as our costume and scenic designers with director Gay whose great imaginations and artistry are helping Hammond about to make Sophie and the Pirates a LIVE play. key things she would like to see in Costume Designer William Mellette grew up in the costume design. Hall County and went to Riverbend Elementary Ms. Hammond told and North Hall High School, eventually studying him she would like Lots of Victorian girls liked with GTA/WonderQuest during his college to play to be set in to do outdoor things -- they 2 years. He graduated from Brenau University Victorian times didn’t just serve tea! (mid-to-late 1800s) – but she left the details to William his imagination. researched what pirates from From there, William began researching what different parts little girls, adults and pirates looked like in that of the world time period. He made a collection of research looked like and pictures and began making plans for what character should where what, how their hair created sketches should be styled, what kind of hats they might of the costumes wear, etc., and what little oddities or special he wanted to touches might be part of different character’s make for the costume that tells us something about them. crew of the Dainty Betsy. Once they agreed on the design, William began to sketch the characters so the WonderQuest elves could sew the costumes…. Just kidding! Williams’ sketches are being used by our team of stitchers (men and women who can sew) to make the costumes.

William traveled to Atlanta to select the right fabrics – pieces with color and pattern that are right for the time period and that help give the characters their personalities. He also has to make sure costumes will work well with the set -- Gray costumes would be invisible on a gray ship! William will have to measure every person in the play to make costume pieces for each person – and some actors may have several costumes because they play several characters. He will also suggest make-up ideas for the characters he is helping to create.

William’s first Pirate show was a stunt show at a theme park. For this show all of the actors had to be to be very physical with their acting and stunts, much like gymnastics. The actors playing the pirates had to be able to jump, climb, do flips and sword fight safely. Make-up is part of costuming artistry, and might include pretend scars, mustaches and beards. A lot of thought went into choosing the right clothing to allow stunts to be performed safely One costume designer created a movie pirate that 3 and that would still look like pirates. completely changed the way people think of pirates -- do you know the character? Scenic Designer Nick Hilliard graduated in 2016 a more interesting play if, instead of having – not so long ago. He went to school at the everyone come and go through one door, Chestnut Mountain Elementary and graduated maybe some people come through a door, some from Johnson High School before studying climb up the side of the ship and maybe others with GTA/WonderQuest and graduating from surprise us by swinging in from the ships rigging! the University of North Georgia. He works in Atlanta as a scenic artist, doing sculpture and Nick created scale drawings for the set, with painting for movie and TV productions that are specific measurements to make sure the set being filmed here in Georgia. would fit on the stage, and a team of GTA/ WonderQuest students built the ship over the After reading the script, Nick developed some summer. The show’s Technical Director used ideas for the set, which for this play is a pirate Nick’s scale drawings and her math skills to figure ship, and then discussed his ideas with Ms. out exactly how much wood and paint would be Hammond. Some of the things scenic designers needed. have to think about are, how to create different locations that take place in the play, and how Nick researched methods of painting that make the characters will enter and exit the stage. It’s wood look old, and since he is a gifted scenic painter as well as a designer, he did much of the set painting, making it look like an old ship that has been on the sea for years. You can see from Nick’s model that the set, a ship called the Dainty Betsy, looks like it’s being tossed by the sea, and even seems to be coming off the stage and into the audience! (Don’t be surprised if you can hear seagulls when you come to the theatre – we have a sound designer too!)

Pirates told tall tales boast about bravery and to pass the boring time on ship -- and if ships had trouble from rough seas, the pirates sometimes blamed it on mysterious monsters -- so Nick created some sea monsters for our set!

Nick Hilliard’s 3D Model of the set shows the Dainty Betsy riding the sea right out into the audience space! 4 Ideas to DISCUSS & WRITE about BEFORE the play

Teachers: You can combine your language Pirates obeyed a code of honor, sometimes with arts studies with preparation for the play by other pirates but mostly with their crewmates discussing and having your students write about to keep order on some of these themes and setting of Sophie and ship. The codes the Pirates. AND, while our thoughts about determined how pirate speech are largely drawn from Robert to divy up the Louis Stevenson’s “” characters loot, how bad and Disney (so not accurate), Sept. 19 is behavior was International Talk Like a Pirate Day, so you can to be punished, have fun with that! and such. Pirates didn’t care much for anyone else’s rules, so they What is a sense of adventure? Sophie is an were about as likely to listen to their prisoner’s avid reader of pirate stories yearns to do new request for justice as you might be if an ant things, so when she is kidnapped by pirates, she protested as you were about to step on it. Is doesn’t respond with fear but is actually excited there a code of honor in your classroom? If so, about it! Have you ever traveled some place why? How do codes, or laws, help the people very different than north Georgia? Would it be in your town to get along? exciting or scary (or both) to scuba dive and see beautiful fish or travel to the moon? You can PLAN to have adventures and prepare – in part While walking the plank and burying treasure are by doing well in school! more fantasy than fact, pirates DID have parrots as pets. On long Kindergarten 1st Grade 2nd Grade trips, which were ELAKR2, ELAKR6 ELA1W1,ELA1LSV1 ELA2W1, ELA2R2 boring and uncom- 3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade fortable, a compan- 5 ELA3W1,ELA3LSV1 ELA4W2, ELA4LSV1 ELA5SV1, ELA5W4 ion animal was a welcome friend. The assignments on this page address the core area Georgia Performance Standards listed There were cats to catch the rats that were Did you know? always on board, but • Pirates rarely ever . They did parrots are colorful, not expect to live very long, considering intelligent and funny, the business they were in, so planning and for a pirate wanting to come back later was not part of their to show off in port, a parrot would do nicely. They thinking. Pirates wanted pleasure right could be purchased with loot now, so they usually took any treasure they in the exotic places where the got to a pirate-friendly port and spent it all birds live naturally, and they as quickly as they could. don’t eat much. PLUS, parrots • Pirates did not make their victims walk could be taught to talk—always the plank. Pirates’ preferred means of entertaining—and they fetched a punishment was keel-hauling, which meant good price in the bird markets, tying their victims to a rope and dragging though it might be tricky for a them under the ship, which caused injury pirate to sell anything, especially an or drowning. attention-grabbing parrot. The port • Pirates are not characters from “the days of cities where a parrot yore” -- there are still pirates around today, might be sold were particularly in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. much smaller in those Worldwide losses from piracy are estimated days, and pirates were often at between $13-$16 billion dollars per year. well-known criminals who would Modern pirates, like those of centuries ago, have a hard time avoiding kidnap, injure and murder their victims so capture. Do you have a pet they can steal ships and cargo. or a favorite animal? Discuss • Some pirates wore eye patches because they or write about finding an animal friend lost an eye to a swordfight! It has been and how you could sneak by crew mates suggested that many wore eye patches so to smuggle your friend aboard! they could flip it up and instantly be able to see well below deck, but that’s not proven (though MythBusters did explore the idea!). • was a firece pirate, but more In general, the more ruthless a pirate focused on getting loot than killing people. was, the more respect other pirates had He worked to for him. Blackbeard, one of the most make himself famous pirates, is known to have cut off look scary people’s fingers to get their diamond (costuming!), to rings. He had a short time of pirate make people so glory though: He stole his ship, which frightened that was originally a French slaveship, in the they’d surrender fall of 1717, and less than a year later, it without a fight. sank off the coast of North Carolina and Before a battle, he was killed. There are many stories he dressed all in where the bad guys don’t survive -- can you black, strapped name some? How would you write a “moral of several pistols to his chest and put slow- the story,” or lesson, for Blackbeard? burning fuses in his hair and beard. In fact, of all the accounts of Blackbeard’s raids, he threatened a lot of people but he never In summary, there’s nothing wrong with actually killed anybody prior to his final, talking like a pirate, or dressing up as one for fatal battle with the British Royal Navy. Halloween. Just keep in mind that you’re talking • Pirates wore earrings because it was a little more like a Hollywood pirate than a real one, bit of gold that they wouldn’t spend – and that real pirates were horrible people you sort of like a piggy bank – that was saved wouldn’t want to come near, and not just to pay for burial expenses (a coffin and 6 because they hardly ever took baths. maybe passage back to England). Land HO! Mapping Skills for Young Scalliwags!

KEY Path Mountains Palm Forest

Town Capital City 2 miles

1. Color the river BLUE. What town is closest to the mouth of the river? 2. What side of the island has dangerous swimming and why? 3. Color the palm forests GREEN. How many are there? ______Circle the forest farthest north. 4. What direction are the mountains from Parrot Town? 5. What direction did the pirates begin walking to bury their treasure? 6. Why couldn’t they walk straight to the treasure burying spot? 7. How far is it from the capital city to ship? 8. What direction is the treasure from Clam Beach? 9. Draw the symbol for the pirate’s path, the mountains and the Palm Forest on the Key. 10. Where should the pirates go to meet the ship on the north side of the island? 7 11. What direction would a parrot fly to go straight from the treasure to the ship? 12. Who likes to swim at Clam Beach? Three GOLD Teeth: PIRATE MATH!

Write an equation for each riddle and solve it if you can! (Draw pictures to help you!) 1. Three sharks are swimming under the plank -- then 4 more join them. How many sharks are swimming?

2. I have 2 feet of rope and you have 8 feet. How many more feet do you have than me?

3. The captain ate 3 oranges and the first mate ate 6 oranges. How many oranges did they eat together? Did they eat a dozen?

4. A parrot has 9 green feathers and some red feathers. Alltogether she has 23 feathers. How many feathers are red?

5. Like most adults, Captain grew up and had 32 nice white teeth. But he didn’t brush and had to get 4 teeth pulled and 3 teeth replaced with gold. How many real teeth does he have left?

6. There were 24 gold coins and 67 jewels in the treausre chest. How much treasure was in the chest? If 3 pirates divide the loot equally, how much will each get?

7. A monkey jumped from ship to ship, stealing socks from pirates. He got 34 black socks and 26 blue socks, but threw overboard half of the blue ones because they had holes in the toes. How many socks are left?

8. The cook made 8 pints of soup for the crew. If each mug holds 4/5 of a pint of soup, then how many pirates will get some soup?

9. Pirates filling their water barrels at a stream can collect 750 gallons every 9 minutes. How long will it take to get 1250 gallons?

Kindergarten 1st Grade 2nd Grade MKN2c, MKG1a, MKG2a M1N3d, M1G1c M2N2a, M2N1c 3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade 8 M3N2c, M3N4d M4N6b, M4M2b M5N3c, M5N4c The assignments on this page address the core area Georgia Performance Standards listed The Since pirates by definition did not obey the laws of the land or naval regulations, pirate captains and their crews developed a Pirate Code of Conduct that enabled them to work together without fearing constant and cheating. Even pirate ships exercised democracy, and pirate captains were elected and could lose their position for abuse of their authority.

One very successful pirate captain was , also known as “Black Bart, who agreed with his crew to the following Code of Conduct in 1721. Certainly, keeping this Code was a part of what made Black Bart and his crew successful.

Rewrite these Articles of Pirates Code as briefly as possible in modern English. Then write WHY you think they would have made this rule.

1. Every man has a vote in affairs of moment; has equal title to the fresh provisions, or strong liquors, and may use them at pleasure, unless a scarcity makes it necessary, for the good of all, to vote a retrenchment. 2. If any man would defraud the company to the value of a dollar in plate, jewels, or money, is their punishment. If the robbery is only betwixt one another, crew are to content themselves with slitting the ears and nose of him that is guilty, and set him on shore, not in an uninhabited place, but somewhere, where he is sure to encounter hardships. 3. No person to game at cards or dice for money. 4. Lights and candles to be put out at eight o’clock at night: if any of the crew, after that hour still remains inclined for drinking, they are to do it on the open deck. 5. Every man shall keep their piece, pistols, and clean and fit for service. 6. No boy or woman to be allowed on ship. If any man is found seducing any of the latter sex, and carries her to sea, disguised, he is to suffer death. 7. To desert the ship or your station in battle, is punished with death or marooning. 8. No striking one another on board, but every man’s quarrels to be ended on shore, at sword and pistol. (The quarter-master of the ship, when the parties will not come to any reconciliation, accompanies them on shore with what assistance he thinks proper, and turns the disputant back to back, at so many paces distance; at the word of command, they turn and fire immediately, (or else the piece is knocked out of their hands). If both miss, they come to their , and then he is declared the victor who draws the first blood.) 9. No man shall talk of breaking up their way of living, till each has shared one thousand pounds. If in order to this, any man should lose a limb, or become a cripple in their service, he is to have eight hundred dollars out of the public stock, and for lesser hurts, proportionately. 10. The Captain and shall receive two shares of a prize: the master, boatswain, and gunner shall have one share and a half, and other 6th Grade 7th Grade 8th Grade officers one and quarter. ELA6R1A, ELA6RC3, ELA7LSV2; ELA7R1, ELACC8L2, ELACC8L3 11. The musicians to have rest on the ELA6W4 ELARC3 Sabbath Day, but the other six days and The assignments on this page address the core area Georgia Performance Standards above nights, none without special favour. How deep can you go? Write equations to answer questinos -- some have multiple steps. 1. After being robbed by pirates, Admiral Lanier’s son wants to buy an amazing ship but it cost $4650 and he doesn’t have a job, and the only job he can find will pay him $5.00 an hour and he can only work 20 hours a week. How many weeks will he need to work before he can buy the ship? 2. Scarface wants to go straight from piracy and become a stuntman for the movies. He finds a great stuntman school online and he applies and gets accepted. The only problem is that the school is in California and he doesn’t have a car or money for a plane ticket. It will cost him $2,000 to buy a car that gets 30 miles per gallon. The trip is 1200 miles and gas in $4.00 gallon. It is $2,500 for the plane ticket. Which one would be cheaper for him? 3. Scurvy has 11 parrots. 4 have red feathers and the rest have blue feathers. He gives Minnow 3 of his parrots. We know Scurvey has 5 parrots left with blue feathers. What color are Minnow’s parrots? 4. Natty Kid wants to build a pirate clubhouse 30 ft by 40 ft. with walls 9 ft. high. How many square feet of plywood will Natty Kid need to cover the walls? 5. Natty is figuring out the best way to fit the pirate clubhouse on his property. He wants to build a rect- angular-shaped house with a floor area of 1200 sq. ft. One possible set of dimensions for the length and width is 30 ft. by 40 ft. What are two other possible sets of dimensions that could be used for the clubhouse length and width? 6. Seaweed Susie caught six cod fish that weighed 3.5 pounds each. Sassafras caught four crabs that weighed 2.4 pounds each. How many more pounds of fish did Susie catch? 7. Sweet Pea and Pod came ashore and stole horses to go visit their Grandma. They rode for 28.3 miles and stopped to rest before riding for 17.5 more miles. They took a trail that ended at a cliff, so had to retrace 4.75 miles to a crossroads where they could choose a better trail. After returning to the crossroads, they rode 15.6 more miles to Grandma’s house. How many miles did Sweet Pea and Pod ride on the way to Grandma’s house? 8. In Captain Ahab’s fleet, three tenths of the ships were painted blue and one fourth of them were painted green. Half of the remaining ships were painted red and half were painted yellow. If 36 ships are blue, how many are there of each of the other colors. 9. The pirates ordered several pizzas for the weekend. When the first evening was over, the following amounts of pizza were left over: 1/4 of the pepperoni pizza, 1/2 of the cheese pizza, 3/4 of the mush- room pizza and 1/4 of the supreme pizza. The next morning, each pirate ate the equivalent of 1/4 of a pizza for breakfast. If that finished the pizza, how many boys were there?

8. Green=30, 27 each red and yellow, 9. 7 pirates 7 9. yellow, and red each 27 Green=30, 8.

6th Grade 7th Grade 8th Grade total, miles 66:15 7. lbs, 11.4 6. 24x50, or 20x60 MCC6.RP.3c, MCC6.NS.1 MCC7.RP.3, MCC7.EE.2 MCC8.SP.4 5. ft., sq. 1160 4. blue, 2 and red 1 3. car, for $2k

Work on this page address the core area Georgia Performance Standards above. + gas for $160 Drive; 2. weeks, 46.5 1. Answers: Dear Teachers~

We know some of your students have NEVER been to a live performance, so discovering the difference between this and a movie is part of the learning experience. Please discuss the items on this page with your students so they will know what to expect and what is expected of THEM. Thank you!

Theatre Etiquette… Theatre is a partnership between the actors on stage and the members of the audience. It is a two-sided com- munication process. An actor’s goal is to give pleasure to his or her audience. A responsive audience reciprocates the cast’s energy, which in turn encourages the actors to give even more back to that audience. The better the audience, the better that performance will be! Each performance is unique — like snowflakes, no two are ever the same. Each performance’s life lasts only in the memories of its participants. Many young people have never attended a live theatre performance and may have questions as to how they should conduct themselves. Listed below are answers to the most common questions asked by new audience members.

How is a live performance different from a movie? The work is LIVE. The action that you see is happening right now, with people just like you. You should treat the performers the way that you would want to be treated if you were on the stage with a lot of people watching you. Wouldn’t you want them to listen and to pay attention? To laugh when you were funny, and applaud when they like what you were doing? Also, in our beautiful theatre space, no gum, drinks or food are allowed!

Do I have to stay in my seat and be as quiet as possible? Not necessarily. You shouldn’t have personal conversations during the play, but you do not have to be completely quiet. If something funny is happening on stage, then you should laugh. If the char- acters ask you a question, then you should answer!

When should I clap my hands? In a live play, you should ALWAYS applaud whenever the show is especially spectacular or enter- taining, even in the middle of the play — remember that applause is the way that you show the actors you like what they are doing! Also, you should applaud when the play is over, and when the actors take their bow. Most of all, HAVE FUN!

11 Sophie and the Pirates Production Evaluation

Your input is extremely valuable to us, helping us to shape future shows and to attract and retain funding. Please take the time with your class to answer the following questions after the production and return it to WonderQuest via mail or email. Thank you for your support and participation in our theatre!

Optional) SCHOOL ______GRADE LEVEL ______

1. What character(s) did you or your students like the most (or the least) in the play? Why?

2. What about the play seemed the most memorable? (Costumes? Set? A specific event? Or some element of the story?)

3. What aspect about coming to the theatre do you think is the most valuable to the students? What would you change about this experience for the next time?

4. Please rate the following aspects of this production (5=excellent, 4=good, 3=adequate, 2=unexciting, 1=poor) _____ Production Values (quality of the visual elements of the play; set, costumes, lights) _____ Performances by the Actors (overall believability/suitability for their roles, interest level) _____ Choice of Play (suitability to students, educational value, fun, challenging, etc.)

5. How would you rank the usefulness of the on-line Performance Study Guide (see scale above)? _____ What aspect of it did you find most useful or interesting for your class?

6. Please list any suggestions you may have for plays or types of plays that support your curriculum and that WonderQuest should consider? (i.e., Classics, Fairy Tales, Social Issues, Other Cultures, etc.)

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