Crossroads Middle School Writing Lab Publications Fall 2013 Argh! What ye may not fathom, matey, be that this book ye be holdin’ in yer scurvy paws be a rare treasure indeed. It be a wealth o’ pirate tales stolen directly from the lice- infested blowfish at Crossroads Middle School. The scallywag sea dog 7th graders be once again singin’ their sagas ‘bout legendary battles an’ seasoned buccaneers from bygone times. Therefore, consider yerself lucky that ye stumbled upon these accounts o’ bravery, scuffle, and plunder. Now, sit back with yer favorite salty parrot an’ a mug o’ grog an’ enjoy the regalin’ that be scribbled here. If’n ye don’t, prepare yer pox-faced, mutinous hide to be keelhauled lengthwise off a jolly pirate cutter. Savvy? ~The Treasures Within~ Captain Ty By: Captain Ty “Where’s Me Gold” Howard ………. Page 1 Captain Maggie Joller By: Scurvy Sarah “The Saber” Stefani ………. Page 2 The Stories Begin ………. Page 3 Bloody Scallyway By: Captain Jackson “Jack the Gentleman” Perry ………. Page 4 The Ship Battle of Death By: Dastardly Dizzy Izzy “Shoot My” Bowen ………. Page 6 Jolly Roger of: Captain Nayha “The Venomous Vet” Sengmanyphet ………. Page 10 The Battle of the Crew By: Captain Ty “Where’s Me Gold” Howard ………. Page 11 Why Now By: Commander Wesley “I’ll Make Ye Hole-ly” St. George ………. Page 14 Jolly Roger of: Scurvy Sarah “The Saber” Stefani ………. Page 16 Knight Halk By: Master Gunner “No-Eyed” Johnny ………. Page 17 Vanderpohl Jolly Roger of: Admirable Gabe “The Gab” Stewart ………. Page 19 The Best Pirate Battle of All Time!!! ………. Page 20 By: Capt’n Xhannar “Captagag” Lasley Jack Sparrow the Great By: Piratical Parker “Pumpkin Powder” ………. Page 23 Blake Darkness Will Fall At the Sea ………. Page 27 By: Scurvy Sarah “The Saber” Stefani I’m a Pirate By: Captain Nayha “The Venomous Vet” ………. Page 30 Sengmanyphet Jolly Roger of: Capt’n Xhannar “Captagag” Lasley ………. Page 33 1722 By: Buccaneer Brandon “The Terrible” Tremmel ………. Page 34 The Man of War By: Cap’n Chantz “The Barnacle” Hull ………. Page 36 Jolly Rogers of: Captain Jackson “Jack the Gentleman” Perry and ………. Page 38 Captain Ty “Where’s Me Gold” Howard The Best Pirate Battle of All Time! By: Bosun Garrett “Braided Gorilla” Tarter ………. Page 39 Jolly Roger of: Commandant Jordan “Donut” Sams ………. Page 42 The Tale of the Black Death ………. Page 43 By: Admirable Gabe “The Gab” Stewart The Battle By: Commandant Jordan “Donut” Sams ………. Page 46 Best Pirate Battle in History By: Jovial Jolly Jakob “Plumpy” Meyer ………. Page 49 Jolly Rogers of: Jovial Jolly Jakob “Plumpy” Meyer and ………. Page 52 Piratical Parker “Pumpkin Powder” Blake Captain Ty By: Captain Ty “Where’s Me Gold” Howard I am Captain Ty. I wonder about dying. I hear gun shots. I see ships blowing up. I want booty. I imagine being left alone. I feel mean. I touch the Ocean water. I worry I’ll die in a battle. I cry about losing my crew members. I am angry. I understand if people die. I say, “Give me my booty!” I dream about my crew. I try to kill enemies. I hope to take the treasure. I am very demanding. 1 Captain Maggie Joller By: Scurvy Sarah “The Saber” Stefani I am the captain I wonder where my crew is I hear the singing I see the waves sway I want a taco I imagine my taco I feel tired and hungry I touch the side of the boat I worry that I won’t ever get my taco I cry myself to sleep I am hungry I understand that I can’t have a taco I say oh my dreams of tacos I dream I’m floating and eating a taco I try to tell myself no I hope one day I will get a taco I am hungry 2 The Stories Begin 3 Bloody Scallywag By: Captain Jackson “Jack the Gentleman” Perry “Ahoy the ship is closing in master gunner get your men to the cannons and wait for my command or I’ll whip your backs to the bone.” “Boom the sound of the other ships cannons’ when they fired at our ship. “Ahoy first mate get the crew and throw the boarding hooks before the other ship comes back for another shot.” “Fire the cannon’s boom shiver me timbers we hit those sons of biscuit eaters.” “Men get all your cutlasses and tomahawks and boarding hooks and let’s kill these men and send them strait to Davey Jones’ Locker.” “Shoot the cannon’s fire!” Boom—the cannons sounded. “We hit them again! They went around us catch them or I’ll skin one of your backs with my whip and then put it in my sandwich. Throw the boarding hooks and get on the scallywags’ ship. Shoot them; they are trying to cut the ropes!” boom, boom--- the cannons went when we hit them,” walk across the rope and fight them to the death.” “Hay eddy get your brass knuckles and show those little people how to rally fight like a man.” “Ok caption Jackson I’ll crush those scallywag in the scull.” “I go down to the cannon room and right when I get down there a cannon hits my ship and I see some of my men get shards of splinters in them, and one of the splinters go right past my head and hits the guy behind me avast where is my surgeon” “Right here sir! Take these men to your cabin and take care of them. Yes sir! “ “Then I see the captain of the other ship and I quickly walk across the boarding hooks to him and I thrust my sword into his hart and then I take my hand and grab his heart and put his heart up to my mouth and eat it and I say that is for my men you killed. Then I jumped to my ship, and told my first mate to go around the ship and fire the cannons but we were too late the other ship fired and I then saw the wood of our ship brake and go into splinters.” We then fired our cannons the cannons blew into one of the men and the guts of that pirate made a horrible bloody mess.” 4 Then we saw out in the distance there were more ships “avast there are more enemy ship let’s take them down fire the cannons” boom went our cannons when we hit the mass of the other ship the trail of our cannons left holes in the other ship. The ship sank” ahoy we took down one ship let’s do the same to all of the other ships. “Then all the ships went around us and fired there cannons and at the same time we shot our cannons and the cannons hit us and we hit them the terror of the cannons around us made holes in our ship but we did not sink we shot a hole in one of the ships and it sank. But wail we were so busy looking at the ship that was sinking we did not notice that one of the other ships men got on our ship and they shot at us but missed and we then we un shethed our cutlasses and thrusted at them then they did the same they got there cutlasses out and thrusted at us.” “ I then got my gun while my men and the other pirates fought to the death and shot and I hit one guy in the head and after I did that the first mate of the other ship jumped at me with his cutlass and I then swung at him knocking him to the ground and I quickly got my gun and shot at him I missed he then hit my cutlass and gun out of my hand and he then thrusted his cutlass at me I then kicked at him, knocking his cutlass out of his hand and I then could reach my gun I only had one shot so I use it I shot him in the head and his brains were all over the place I then said “ “I love me some brains.” I got his gun out of his pocket and then shot more pirates but there was no more bullets left and then I got a cannon, aim at one of the pirates and shoot and I got lucky and shot two pirates. Then I shoot more of them with the cannons and then there was guts all over the place and I made my men lick it and I made them say they like it. But the battle was not over there was one more big ship left. “The ship was trying to go around us to shoot us. But it went the opposite direction and we fired our cannons first and we hit them, the other ships caption yelled at us.” you won’t get away with this you scallywag!” Then we yelled back. “Yes we will!” I yelled. “Then I yelled again to fire the cannons boom—went our cannons when we made a hole in the other ship.” 5 The Ship Battle of Death By: Dastardly Dizzy Izzy “Shoot My” Bowen As I went to bed the next morning me ship be frozen and we came among a big black old rusty ship upon us. “I’ve never seen this kind of ship before,” said captain Russian princess. “Son of a biscuit eater” said me 1st mate. “It’s time for war!” screamed me captain Russian princess.