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2007 Texas Reading Club Manual
Then let the teens make a personal Jolly Roger flag. Display the Jolly Rogers around the
library when the project is complete.
Variation
Make a Jolly Roger that represents your library. Have the teens contribute ideas that
would make your library flag unique.
Get Pirattitude Costume Contest
Have a pirate fashion show and invite the teens to dress as their own ideas of what pirates
should look like. Have the participants and audience vote on the best costume and award
ribbons or prizes.
Modern Piracy
Have teens do a search on the Internet for the word "piracy" to discover how many
different ways the word is used today. Start a discussion about how the pirates of the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries compare with those of today.
Talk Like a Pirate Crossword Puzzle and Word Match Game
Copy and distribute the “Talk Like a Pirate” crossword puzzle provided at the end of this
chapter, or develop a crossword puzzle using pirate slang from The Pirate’s Realm web
site at www.thepiratesreal m.com/pirate%20talk.html or another website. A website for
creating puzzles is the Crossword Puzzle Game at
www.crosswordpuzzlegames.com/create.html. Or, create a word-match game using the
pirate words and definitions below.
Pirate Slang
Abaft - Toward the back end or stern of the ship
Ahoy! - Hello!
Arrrgh! - A basic pirate utterance that sometimes means, “Yes, I agree.”
Avast! - Stop and pay attention!
Aye! - Yes, I agree!
Aye aye! - I'll get right to it!
Bilge rat - An insult, or a rat that lives in the lowest place in the ship
Black jack - Large leather drinking cup coated with tar
Cackle fruit - Chicken eggs
Duffle - Everything a sailor owns and the nickname for the bag that holds the possessions
Grog - Mix of water and rum
Hogshead - Large barrel or casket
Holystone - Bars of sandstone used to scrub the decks
Hornpipe - A musical instrument often found on pirate ships
Hornswaggle - To cheat or defraud
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