1. The Real Pirates of the Caribbean
Ms. Carey Social Studies Department Burnaby North Secondary

2. Social Studies at Burnaby North
Use Social Studies inquiry processes and skills to: ask questions; gather, interpret, and analyze ideas; and communicate findings and decisions
Assess the significance of people, places, events, and developments at particular times and places Determine what is significant in an account, narrative, map, and text
Assess the credibility of multiple sources and the adequacy of evidence used to justify conclusions 
Characterize different time periods in history, including periods of progress and decline, and identify key turning points that mark periods of change 
Determine what factors led to particular decisions, actions, and events, and assess their short- and long-term consequences 
Explain different perspectives on past or present people, places, issues, and events, and compare the values, worldviews, and beliefs of human cultures and societies in different times and places 
Make ethical judgments about past events, decisions, and actions, and assess the limitations of drawing direct lessons from the past

3. Let’s Investigate!
In groups of 2-3 people let’s get into our Task Force Teams.
Each team will get a sheet of paper and felts.
How will we determine fact from fiction?
What do we know about Pirates and history of the Caribbean?

4. What do you know about Pirates? In Social Studies we search for fact vs. fiction… so what about pirates is fact and what is fiction?
FACTS
FICTION

5. How much of what we know seems to be from Hollywood. Social Media
How much of what we know seems to be from Hollywood? Social Media? Video Games?
How do we know what historical information is real?
How can we find accurate information about the past and put the pieces of history together? BRAINSTORM…

6. What about Captain Jack Sparrow?
Most people think of Captain Jack Sparrow and the Disney movie “Pirates of the Caribbean” when they think of Pirates. But these movies are not telling the truth about what life was like for real pirates of the Caribbean during the Age of Exploration.
In the Age of Exploration, we saw many explorers, merchants, and pirates sail to the ‘New World’ in hopes of finding treasure and riches. Many of these early explorers faced pirates on the open waters off the coast of the Caribbean. But what Disney and Hollywood doesn’t tell us is what really happened in history….

7. Real Life Pirates of the Caribbean
In your groups, name as many real- life pirates that you know of… 1) 2) 3)

8. BLACKBEARD
Blackbeard’s real name was Edward Teach who was British and born around the year He worked on a British Privateer ship out of Jamaica and as he grew up and got his own ship, the Queen of England (Queen Anne) allowed Edward Teach to rob from French and Spanish enemy ships in the region and keep the goods. He became so good at robbing other ships, he decided to move up…
Edward Teach stole a new and better boat and added cannons and reinforced the sides. His boat could hold 250 men/pirates. The boat’s name was called: Queen Anne’s Revenge

10. Blackbeard… “Edward Teach”
Between 1716 and 1718, Blackbeard and his crew of pirates terrorized sailors on the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea. Now calling himself Blackbeard he became one of the most frightening pirates in the region. He decided to look more menacing and braided his beard and tied the braids with black ribbons. He stuffed burning rope under his hat to make himself look more ferocious and scary. It worked!
Blackbeard’s home base was in North Carolina, USA. Eventually he was caught and as a warning to other pirates his head was cut off and suspended from another ship. His treasure was never found… but they did find his boat last year off of North Carolina! It sank in 1718.

11. Blackbeard’s ship The Queen Anne’s Revenge has been found!
They Found it!
Blackbeard’s ship The Queen Anne’s Revenge has been found!

13. Other Pirates: Henry Morgan (Captain Morgan)
William Kidd (Captain Kidd)
Rock Brasiliano
Barbarossa Brothers
Jean Lafitte
Bartholomew Roberts (“Black Bart”)
Anne Bonny (Female Pirate from Ireland!)
Mary Read (Female Pirate from England!)
Calico Jack Rackham
Francois l’Olonnais
Sir Francis Drake

15. What must life have been like at Sea?

16. Living Conditions? Food? Bathrooms?

17. Did Pirates Really ‘Walk the Plank’? Or is that just Hollywood Again?

18. Nope… Pirates did not walk the plank! Their punishments were much worse!
Marooning on a spit of land/island
Hanging in Chains until you died
Cat-o-Nine Tails Whip
Keel Hauling

19. Marooning
Left on a spit of land or deserted island with a bottle of rum and a pistol with one shot.

20. Hanging in Iron Cages
People would left in these hanging off a cliff near shore ALIVE and you were left there in the blazing sun until you died.

21. Cat-O-Nine Tails Whip: Someone committed a crime and would get 49 lashes to the back.
BUT… all 9 whips were made of leather, tied into knots, had metal balls and hooks attached to the ends…. YIKES!

22. Keel-Hauling

23. So… Not really a Disney Captain Jack Pirate Life huh?
Life was brutal, ruthless, hard and often barbaric as a Pirate in the Caribbean. Without a police or naval force in the area strong enough or fast enough to stop them, Pirates continued to get away with their crimes.
BUT… did pirates ever go away? DO WE STILL HAVE PIRATES TODAY???

25. Ending Question: WHAT REALLY IS A PIRATE?