1. What Are we Learning Today?
To learn about famous pirates
To think about life in the past
To write a report based on facts

2. What I am Looking For Good thinking – lots of good ideas Good research
Good writing

3. Captain Blackbeard
‘Blackbeard’ was his nickname – his real name was probably Edward Teach
He lived about three hundred years ago
He is the most famous real pirate
He was very strong and very fierce
He was married fourteen times

4. Captain Blackbeard
He was cruel to his own men – he once shot one of his best friends, Israel Hands, in the knee just for fun!
He wore plaits in his hair so it looked like snakes were crawling on him. He twisted smoking rope into his beard to make him look even more scary.

5. Captain Blackbeard
He carried three pairs of pistols and a belt of daggers and cutlasses
The reward for catching him was once £100
Lieutenant Maynard caught up with Blackbeard and they had a big battle
Blackbeard was shot five times and cut by a sword twenty times, before Maynard chopped his head off and tied it to his ship

6. Sir Henry Morgan Henry Morgan came from Wales
He was a pirate before Blackbeard
He started off attacking the Spanish for King Charles II – and King Charles was very pleased with what he did!
Morgan was a good soldier but a hopeless sailor – he kept wrecking his ships. One ship ran aground and sank, another blew up.

7. Black Bart Black Bart’s real name was Bartholomew Roberts
He was a pirate at about the same time as Blackbeard
He came from Wales
He was religious and wouldn’t fight on a Sunday
He stole from 400 ships
He was a pirate for less than three years – only a little bit longer than Blackbeard

8. Calico Jack
Calico Jack had this nickname because of what his shirts were made from! He was famous for wearing very fancy clothes and being very handsome. His real name was Jack Rackham
He is famous for having two famous girl pirates on his ship
When the navy caught up with him, Calico Jack gave up without a fight and was hung. Anne Bonny thought he was a big wuss!

9. Anne Bonny Anne Bonny was Calico Jack’s girlfriend
She left Ireland when she was a little girl
She ran away from home to be a pirate
Mary and Anne were very brave when they were caught and fought on when others gave up
No-one knows what happened to her. When Calico Jack, Anne and her friend Mary were caught, Anne was put in prison and vanished from history….

10. Mary Read Mary grew up pretending to be a boy
She was working as a manservant when she ran away to be a soldier in the French army
She was captured by pirates with a woman pirate, Anne Bonny. They became friends and Mary decided to join them
Mary died in prison