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Pirates of North Carolina

A Web Quest for 8th and 4th Graders "Pirates of North Carolina"

Ashley Ciriano: ilovefrgz5290@hotmail.com

Introduction

You are in the eighth or fourth grade and your social studies teacher has assigned you a project on pirates. Not just any pirates, but the pirates of North Carolina. Get ready to hoist the sails and batten down the hatches because you are getting ready to live the life of piracy!

The Task

During this voyage you will be learning all about how pirates lived while out at sea. While out at sea you will need to make a diary of your daily life. You will need to keep track of your diary for two weeks.

The Process

You will need to include three of these four things in each entry in your diary (use different ones each time):

	the things you eat
	the punishments you encounter
	the things you steal from other ships
	the chores you are assigned on the ship

Make sure that you write at least one entry in your diary a day.

***Remember to do at least four paragraphs (five sentences per paragraph) a day, using size 12 or 14 font***

Evaluation

Beginning
1

Developing
2
Accomplished
3
Exemplary
4

Score

Journal Entries

You completed 3 or less full pages (four paragraphs a page). You completed 3-4 full pages (four paragraphs a page). You completed 5-6 full pages (four paragraphs a page). You completed seven full pages (four paragraphs a page). great job!!

Spelling/Grammar

You have fifteen or more spelling or grammatical errors throughout your whole journal. You have between ten and fourteen spelling or grammatical errors throughout your whole journal. You have between five and nine spelling and grammatical errors throughout your whole journal. You have four or less spelling and grammatical errors throughout your whole journal. Great job!!

Journal Topics
You included only one topic in each entry and used the same topic in every entry. You talked about 2 of the topics in each entry, but only included 3 different topics throughout the whole week. You included 3 topics each day, but did not include all five of the topics throughout the week. You included three or more topics in every entry, and used all five topics at least once. Great job!!

Conclusion

When you have come back from your long journey you will have lived the life of a true North Carolinian Pirate! You have learned all about how pirates live, what they eat, and how they are punished. I hope you set sail with us again sometime and we hope you had fun!

Credits & References

Here are some references to help you learn all about pirates. This will help you with the journal entrees!

* "Pirates of the Carolinas", by Terrance Zepke.

* "Pirates of the Southern Coast", by Sandra MacLean Clunies and Bruce Roberts.

* "Blackbeard, Eighteenth-Century Pirate of the Spanish Main and Carolina Coast", by Aileen Weintraub

* http://www.geocities.com/allbelcher/states/nc/pirates.html

http://tinpan.fortunecity.com/lennon/897

This web quest was made possible through a "Teaching with Technology" grant received by Maria Gomez and Mrs. Barbara Blair from North Carolina Association of Educational Communication and Technology and a grant from the National Catholic Education Association.

last updated on March 12, 2004. Based on a template from The Web Quest Page