***For best results, play the following while exploring Prezi: Exciting Pirate Music!
Treasure Island: Pirates!
I am very excited about my text satellite!
Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson, is one of my favorite novels.
That is not the only reason that I selected it, though! It is a story of adventure, growing up, and - best of all - pirates! I believe that it has the potential to be a very engaging novel in the classroom, particularly for male students.
I decided to focus my text satellite on an interdisciplinary study of piracy. In addition to Treasure Island, I chose the broadway script of "Peter Pan and Wendy" as further reading material. Student understanding of the Hollywood pirate will be challenged through a critical article ("Romantic Hero or Bloodthirsty Robber"), current movie and theatre video clips and exerpts from Exquemelin's 18th-century pirate tales.
Students will expand their knowledge of pirate history with historical information from the Elizabethan Era site, historical documents, and documentaries. Students will use this knowlege to compare and contrast images of pirates from throughout the past few centuries and analyze poetry.
Finally, they will explore modern day piracy with excerpts from Terror on the Seas, current event articles, and current documents.
A soundtrack will be utilizied to engage student interest but also to deepen their study of piracy through an analysis of the music and its lyrics.
Note: The attached link to my text satellite does not allow for the following videos to play:
Sarah, one word for this: Brilliant! What a fantastic idea. I never considered teaching about Pirates before, but you've pulled it off in such thoughtful and charming ways. Things I loved: The connections to history--the Buccaneers of America, the Pirate's Code, and women pirates! Neat! I also enjoyed the connection to "real" pirates and the issue of piracy today. This helped to balance the discussion as a whole--Pirates aren't just "popular culture." I loved the orchestration and choreography of your prezi as well. I was entertained by the soundtrack. Things that made me laugh: The "Rosetta Stone" clip was hilarious. I thoroughly enjoyed this. What I'll steal: The idea! I wonder what a class or a unit on pirates might look like :) I hope you get to try this out sometime.
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