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Subject: Celebrate Talk Like a Pirate Day - Friday, September 19th
Celebrate Talk Like a Pirate Day - Friday, September 19th
Does your school celebrate Talk Like a Pirate Day? Here are some links to pirate
resources to add some educational heft to a fun activity:
Watch one of the webcasts from the day long symposium on Pirates and Corsairs of
the Americas in History and Literature. Find the list at
http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/webcasts.html Explore the book The Buccaneers of America from the Exploring the Early Americas
collection
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/earlyamericas/buccaneers/html/. Also
share maps documenting early treasure ships and the treasures they found and the
work that was done to stop pirates in the Americas at
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Read Gerald Gawalt’s Essay on the Barbary Pirates at
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/jefferson_papers/mtjprece.html Play some pirate related sheet music. The Music for the Nation collection
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/smhtml/smhome.html has the Pirates March and the
Pirates Cave March. Or listen to the song Down Around the Coast of La Barbaree
from the California Gold Collection.
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Watch an Edison Film of Police Arresting Pirates
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