Double Entry Diary (DED) Section 4 February 25, 2010

Section 4:

 Part A:

1. The colonists were independent- minded people with strong ideas. Their life was often harsh; cold, hunger, and disease were constant threats. Despite all the troubles that the colonists faced they prospered, but to make sure that London got their share they controlled the tax.

2. The Navigation Acts were a series of laws that forced the colonists to trade only with England, using English ships and crews. The laws forced them to accept low prices for the goods they produced and therefore, most of the colonists did not like them and some of them even chose to ignore these unfair laws.

3. Like I said in question three the colonists did not approve these laws and they did not agree with them. These laws cause the colonists to get low price for the materials and crops that they were growing.

4. These pirates made friends with the colonists ashore and were known as the freebooters. They were mostly smugglers, supplying untaxed goods to grateful settlers on the coast of America.

5. These pirates were welcomed on American shores and some were even financed by investment groups of businessmen who outfitted the ships and bought letters of marque from dishonest officials. So, the colonists turned to the freebooters because of the high tax prices from England. This bad relationship over taxes would led to the American Revolution in 1776. Before this the freebooters were respectable citizens.

Section B:

1. Through out all the activities that we have done with these books we have done something wit the Buccaneers. The Buccaneers were originally lawless hunters from Hispaniola and were named after the “boucan” barbecues on which they smoked meat. The first pirates started about 4,600 years ago about the same time as the first sailors. The Viking Raiders cruised the north sea, the Atlantic, and the Baltic from the 9^th to the 11^th century. Their ships were light fast; they raided coastal towns and villages. Then they later became peaceful settlers. The Privateers which is another group that we have discussed a great deal throughout the pirate unit, were merchant ships used because the king and queen could not afford navies. King Henry III issued each privateer with a “letter of marque,” a piracy permit. This authorized the captain of the merchant ship to attack the enemy on the king’s behalf. The Corsairs were about during the 16^th century and they had a religious excuse for plunder. The pirates were called “corsairs” after the Latin word cursus, meaning plunder. This fight was mainly between the Christian and the Muslims. During this period the Barbarossa Brothers were some of the most powerful and famous pirates of the Corsairs. The New World pirates- as the 16^th century began, the world grew suddenly bigger. Moving on to the Spanish Main- mainland America- they plundered the wealth of two great Native American peoples, which were: the Incas of Peru and the Aztecs of Mexico. Francis Drake turned pirate after the Spanish raided his merchant chip in the Caribbean. The attack on a Spanish town in 1572 made his reputation.

2. Out of all the pirates I must say that I like Mary Read and Anne Bonny best out of all the different ones I have read about. They wore men’s clothes when they fought alongside the other pirates on “Calico” Jack Rackham’s ship. It is said that their shipmates may have never knew their true identity. When the rest of their crew was arrested they escaped execution by claiming that they were pregnant. I think that the mystery behind them is just fascinating. I, myself, would have loved to have been a pirate they are awesome in my eyes. These two pirates were girls and think about how smart they had to be to keep their identity hidden and to escape execution. I think it was awesome that they disguised themselves as men and fought alongside the other men on a pirate ship, and then when they were found out they said they were pregnant. Sorry had to bring out my women’s right in this one, and it seems that it was a great story.

Double Entry Diary (DED) Section 3 February 24, 2010

Section 3:

 A. Pirate Diary: The Journal of Jake Carpenter

From the Book (words, quotes, passages). Page and Paragraph	What it means to me.
One of our crew who has been there tells me, “It is a paradise, where pirates do as they please without fear of the law.” Page 38 Paragraph 1	What is a pirate’s paradise? I would think it would be as they said, a place where a pirate can do as he or she please without fear of the law. There would probably be rum, and gambling, and fight all the time. I would think it was a care free atmosphere, with a lot of men showing off.
I could not decide who was right. I glimpsed her for just a moment, and then the mist hid the sandbank from view. Page 43 Paragraph 1	The crew is discussing mermaids during this part of the Diary! It says that mermaids are young and beautiful and sit combing their long, blonde hair. This would be a great time to talk to students about body image. There is a great video that dove put out that does a great job at showing how the image you see in magazines is not actually how they really look in real life. I love mermaids! They even say in the Diary that this was a ugly lass. Again a great time for body image.
Gabriel and Pierre struck up a merry tune on the whistle and fiddle and many of the company danced a jig or two around the deck. Page 45 Paragraph 3	I think this would be a great time to talk about cultures. Also, about how pass times have changed over time. For Jake dancing a jig and listening to music was a way to pass the time but for children today video games and watching TV is a pass time. Appalachian has a rich heritage in music and this would something interesting to look into.

 

B. What if You Met a Pirate?

From the Book (words, quotes, passages). Page and Paragraph	What it means to me.
Pirates were scalawags and scoundrels but, mostly, they were sailors. They were clever planners, too. They chose fast, nimble ships that could swoop quickly down on merchant vessels and get away from men o’ war trying to catch them. Page 12 Paragraph 1	I love the pictures in this section on the book. They do an excellent job at showing how the ships back then really worked and how they did it well. I also liked how they said that pirates were mostly sailors. What are sailors? You could ask students what sailors are today. What kind of jobs could be classified as being a sailor? How are they different then those jobs of a pirate and are they easier today?
Ships Leak- Everyone of them, especially old wooden ones. A part of every pirate’s day was spent pumping water out of the bilge, the deepest part of the hull. Page 14 Paragraph caption at the bottom	It is important to remember that all the jobs pirates were responsible for were not fun, but instead, very hard work. Having to pump water out of the deepest part of the ship does not sound like fun. Also, the saying “Nothing good comes easy,” would be good to talk about during this section of the book. The ships did leak! I think that this information would scare me if I were on a ship!

 

New Words for Dictionary

Scalawags

Scoundrels

Nimble

Buntlines

Bilge

Double Entry Diary (DED) Section 2 February 19, 2010

Section 2:

 A. Pirate Diary: The Journal of Jake Carpenter

From the Book (words, quotes, passages). Page and Paragraph	What it means to me.
The cloud quickly hid the deck from view, but aloft I could see that the pirates (for so they proved to be) had hauled down their Dutch flag, and hoisted a black flag with an hourglass and crossed swords on it. Page 22, paragraph 2	Through research we know that pirates used a decoy flag as a form of surprise attack on their victims. I was excited to be able to pick out factual information from the text.
Already the wound has maggots and unless his leg cut off below the knee, he will surely die. All agreed that Adam would make the best surgeon, because he is handy with a saw. Page 27, paragraph 2	Gross! You could discuss with children the medical advances since this time and how this would have been very unsanitary. This was done without anesthesia. It would be good to ask kids if they had ever had an surgery and compare how different it would have been back then.
The fish was swimming quickly at our ship and I feared it would eat us in one single gulp. Page 35, paragraph 4	It is funny how the unknown scares us. Jake was scared of the whale because he dint know what it was or if it might hurt him. This would be a good time to ask kids if they had ever been in a situation like this.

 

B. What if You Met a Pirate?

From the Book (words, quotes, passages). Page and Paragraph	What it means to me.
Surely he’d have a parrot on his shoulder, swearing and shrieking “Pieces of eight!” Page 2, paragraph 1	I love the entire section that this is from. I love the colorful and descriptive use of language that is seen in the paragraph. I am not sure what pieces of eight are? I remember hearing it from a movie I watched about pirates but I am not sure what it means.
Some pirates died from drowning or in accidents. Most died form disease, especially in the tropics. Pirates who died in battle were rare, but not as rare as old pirates. Page 4, paragraph 4	This amazed me. Pirates have the crazy, daring, and hard life but yet most of them died of old age. This could be considered a misconception and I think this would be an important piece of information to mention to students. I found this to be very interesting!

Double Entry Diary (DED) Section 1 February 19, 2010

 Section 1:

 A. Pirate Diary: The Journal of Jake Carpenter

From the Book (words, quotes, passages). Page and Paragraph	What it means to me.
“Fie, man!” he snorted. “Do you think we are going to sea in a tailor’s shop?” Page 7, paragraph 1	This would have embarrassed me if I were Jake. This had to make him feel uneasy as to what the trip had in store. What does fie mean?
He explained that they must be kept damp, or the boards shrink apart, letting in the sea. Page 10, paragraph 5	I had no idea that they had to do this on ships back in the day. Do ships still have to do this? I would think not because you don’t see this process going on, on boats. I think maybe a treated lumber or a sealer would take care of this problem.
I guessed who he was, for as soon as he hissed “Away aloft!” in a voice the sailors hurried up the rigging as if the devil himself had given the order. Page 11, paragraph 2	I love the eerie use of words the author’s uses to describe the captain. He didn’t just speak his words he hissed them. He spoke in such a way that the sailors hurried their work. This man put fear into his crew, and the author said he made it seen as though the devil himself had given the order. Wow! Maybe he was the meanest pirate ever to live?

 

B.What if You Met a Pirate?

From the Book (words, quotes, passages). Page and Paragraph	What it means to me.
Being a pirate was, in some ways, better than most jobs. Between 1500 and 1750, a pirate or privateer ship was the only real democracy: The entire crew voted on important questions. Page 6, paragraph 3	Since our country does have a democracy as its form of government I thought this was an important part of the information to pull out. This I think would be important to point out to students. We have something in common with the pirates.
Pirates didn’t make long voyages like the Royal Navy. Their trips were short, often only a few days. Pirate’s dint want to match their little boats’ guns with the navy’s big guns, so they counted on surprise, a lot of men, and boarding the prize in a yelling, furious rush. Page 10, paragraph 3	I have always thought of pirates as the big bad outlaws. Nobody could touch them and they had these huge ships with big guns. This portion of the reading proves this to be incorrect. They were scared or had at least one enemy, the Navy.

What if You Met a Pirate? and more… February 18, 2010

The children’s book Pirate Diary the Journey of Jake Carpenter was very interesting. I enjoyed reading this book and found it to very informative. Jack lived in the village Holyoak, NC and was about to take the trip of a lifetime. I think I would have just settled and went to medical school. The first ship he went on was the Sally Anne but that fell through and he soon found himself on the Grayhound and under the command of Captain Nick. I have to say there were a few words that I didn’t know (fie man- disgusted or annoyed). There were a few facts that I didn’t know before reading the book. Such as your have to keep the boards wet so that they don’t shrink up and move apart. The first destination point for Jack and the crew is Sullivan’s Island. Jack makes friends with a boy that works in the kitchen (smart move). They continue to remain friends until the end of the book. The Grayhound is soon bound for Martinique and there are several term used in this part of the book that could be used as supporting lessons such as: Latitude, longitude, and almanac. On page 22 the diary introduces the pirates and goes into some characteristics of them. This book also talks about the Pirate leader Henry Jennings. There was a great deal of things in this diary that I enjoyed and I can see how students would enjoy it also.

What if You Met a Pirate was also a good read but I didn’t like it as much as I did the Pirate Diary book. Let me just say, that I loved to introduction of this book. “He’d be swinging a cutlass and clutching a dagger. He’d have pistols hanging all over him. He’d have a wooden leg and an eye patch.” It goes on further to describe a pirate and it is just awesome. This text is a lot of question and answer type writings. It has bold headings such as: How Would you Know a Real Pirate? Then the book goes into depth about what that is. This would be easy to break up into several days or into sections for students because of the different headings and grouping of the writing. We see the Buccaneers once again in this book! I loved the pirate words that were at the end of this book, I think this would be very helpful to students.

The double entry diary is an excellent tool to use with these books. I like expressed earlier these books a divided up (dates, and headings) and so this makes for easy journal entries. This activity will ask kids to write about specific things such as quotes, pictures, or facts. The article goes in to detail of how to set this up. You will write three entries for section one and you continue to do this for other sections as well. This activity shows how what kids have seen in the Pirate Diary book can be enhanced by the What if You Met a Pirate. The non-fiction book goes into greater depth about the life of a pirate and this activity will help us utilize this information.

Life February 15, 2010

 Make it life

Life is every where
It is in you now and forever it shall stay
Life is the wind blowing sideways
Life is the winter and the summer
I am Life You are Life We are Life
I love Life and Life loves me
Life and I play beneath the midnight sun
Life and I play beneath the morning moon
Life brings me soup when I am ill
Life kisses me good night and greets me with a smile
Life is sad and it is lonely
Life is evil and Life is blunt
Life is a true friend and never lies
I am Life You are Life We are Life

By: Jasmine Shipp

Writing Informational Persona Poetry: Transforming Ideas through Instructional Scaffolding, I Poetry-Persona Poetry, and Writing the I poem. February 15, 2010

This was a great experience for me. I enjoyed writing the I poem! I found the PowerPoint to be very descriptive and very detailed about the form, purpose, and uses of I poetry. I had no idea that there was a type of poetry that a teacher could use to reinforce research materials. Students can transform language and ideas and incorporate factual information into their poems. After learning the form and the actual layout of the poem this was a fairly simple task. This I poetry gives students a chance to write with emotion, vivid imagery and use precise word choice. This activity also gives students a chance to developed ownership over their poems and the information that they have been researching.

Through the use of poetry students develop a deeper understanding about their topics of study. I am all about making curriculum fun and exciting! I think this idea of persona poetry can make dull information or realistic material fun and exciting. I enjoyed this site best off the I poetry page ( http://katieblackburn.wordpress.com/ribbit-exhibit/) The title of the poem is I am a Frog, and I just think it is too cute. There was a great deal of links on this page, but they are all very helpful. They will be links that I will want to add to my page. Also, in the PowerPoint and on the I poetry page there is numerous examples of student work and a skeleton outline of how to write an I poem. I found the last slide in the PowerPoint to be a great conclusion: “Students understand and remember ideas better when they have to transform those ideas from one form to another. Apparently it is in this transforming process that author’s ideas become reader’s ideas, rendering them more memorable” (Pearson & Fielding, 1991, p. 847).

Article Mix Up! February 11, 2010

So, I found out that I compared the wrong thing. We were suppose to compare this article Fisher, D., Frey, N. & Lapp, D. (2008) Shared readings: Modeling comprehension, vocabulary, text structures and text features. The Reading Teacher, 61(7), 548-556 with the web site and the number two questions of Not So Jolly Roger Activities. This makes much more sense and was a little bit easier than the last one. I believe just as the article points out that vocabulary text structure and the other concepts are the key to teaching the material. I also read the other article Frye, E. (2009). Integrating instructional-level social studies trade books for struggling readers in upper elementary grades. Illinois Reading Council Journal, 37(4), 3-13 and it was to be compared to the IRI assessment. In the assessment we are to flash a word on the screen and if the child gets it correct move on and if they don’t do an un-timed presentation of the word to see if the child gets it correct. This article as I explained in my former post is all about presenting material to low achieving students. We are going to be assessing a low achieving student in the assessment so I found this article very helpful. It is so important to find the appropriate material for a low achieving student and as the article said it might be harder to find books that low achieving children would need. When we do our assessment it will important to take into consideration where and what level of reading they are on. They are our little works in progress! Again back on the post about the Not so Jolly Roger activity and the other article I believe text structure, text features, vocabulary, and comprehension skills are big issues to be considered when starting an activity or a unit. Another thing that I thought about was the internet workshop, and how important it is to have kid friendly websites. This will also be very important for those children who are on a below average reading level because they will need precise instructions and materials. Both of the articles were great!! Sorry for the mix up.

Pirates, Pirates, and more Pirates! February 11, 2010

We were asked to think about several different things while writing this reflection. The second step of number 2 in The Not so Jolly Roger packet and the article Modeling comprehension, vocabulary, text structures and text features were to be compared and analyzed while think about these concepts: text structure, text features, vocabulary, and comprehension skills. I completed step two in The Not so Jolly Roger activities before I read the article. The article did a very good job of wrapping up this activity. I had never thought about what the concepts such as certain vocabulary and text structure could mean for a student especially a low level student. It explains how finding the correct material for each student is a very difficult process. It is even harder to find material that is on a lower level for a low achieving student. You want the material to challenge the reader without bringing them to the frustration level. The web site that we used () was a great kid friendly web site. It was easy to understand and the questions did a very good job of navigating students through the page. The text structure was very well planned and was presented in a sequential manner that child would easily understand. It was also interesting and I think children could stay entertained long enough to finish the activity; especially when the web site talks about the weapons and the description of Blackbeard. There is some vocabulary on the website that may be difficult for lower level achieving children do not understand. This made me think about the multi-text unit and when we make our internet workshop. We will need to look at these factors when creating this site and how these concepts will affect the child’s learning. The DRC is an excellent way to check a child’s comprehension skills. If they understand what they are reading and looking at then the chart will show that. This is also a great tool for lower level children to use when researching information because it gives them a format to go by. Noticing differences in children can be difficult but can be done it is just a matter of digging for information and knowing your resources.

The Not-So-Jolly Roger February 10, 2010

I was very impressed with the children’s book The Not-So-Jolly Roger. I was unaware that this short novel was by the same author as The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, Jon Scieszka until class today. After this was brought to my attention I noticed the similarities in the writing melody and in the illustrations. This story was hard to place in a certain genre. I found it to be historical fiction because there are some true facts in the novel, but on the other hand there really is not a lot. This book is sort of riding both sides of the fence. Scieszka does and excellent job of describing the pirates to us. We first see the pirates on page eleven. The author tells us that they were ugliest and nastiest looking guys ever. Then it goes on the explain on page twelve and thirteen that Blackbeard had a monstrous black beard, with four pigtails, braided and tied with ribbons on the ends that fell down his chest. I loved the descriptions! I also did not know that his real name was Edward Teach. The language in this novel flows and moves in such a way that children will love to read this, I loved reading this. Another fact that I learned was that the name of his ship was Queen Anne’s Revenge. I also became aware that he was a member of a pirate group called “Brethren –of-the- Coast.” This is also known as the Buccaneers which I learned in class today. Another fact that we highlighted in class today was that Blackbeard liked for his prisoners or enemies to walk the plank as a form of punishment. This is a great novel to use with children on a pirate unit. This would be an upper third grade reading level book, but I think would work as a read aloud in a lower grade. I enjoyed this read and would love to use it someday in a classroom.