Pirates and Patriots: Welcome!
The Pirates’ Code: Codex
“... the code is more what you'd call guidelines than actual rules.”
“The Code is the Law”
Captain Teague
Pirates of the Caribbean:
At World’s End
“I’ve a few things to say about keeping an innocent man locked up…”
Dr. Peter Blood
Captain Blood by Raphael Sabatini
“What do you propose to do with me?”
Dona St. Colomb
“I must consult my book of rules.”
Jean Benoit Aubery
Frenchman’s Creek by Daphne DuMaurierPirates and Patriots:
An American Tradition.
Pirate films in a college composition classroom
Captain Blood with Errol Flynn
Frenchman's Creek with Joan Fontaine
Pirates of the Caribbean
The texts include:
Common Sense and documents of the American Revolution,
The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.
Focus: the concept of a standard of behavior: a pirate’s code.
Liberty against the Law.
This freedom and independence on a pirate's ship drifted to shore, and the pirates brought a sense of equality to the landed communities, a sense of independence that contributed to the development of independence here in America, and around the world.
Ways of integrating art into the class particularly illustrations of Brandywine School of Art, Chadds Ford, PA
Howard Pyle N.C. Wyeth Andrew Wyeth James Wyeth
The influence of the German Expressionist movement The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and director Michael Curtiz including The Adventures of Robin Hood, Casablanca, and White Christmas.
Writing sketches:
Describing the senses: sight, sound, taste, touch, and hearing
Describing what is depicted in the art
Noting techniques the artist may be using
Writing a response to a piece of art
Formal Researched Writing
Exposition
Compare/Contrast
Classification
Argument/Persuasion
6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon
Liberty Against the Law: Pirates
The Brandywine School of Art: Illustrators
Howard Pyle, N.C. Wyeth, James Wyeth
Captain Blood
Frenchman’s Creek
Captain Ron
Pirates of the Caribbean: Just Another Bad Day at Work
http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres16.html
COMING ATTRACTIONS: PIRATES AND PATRIOTS LINKS:
THE GRAMMAR OF PIRATES
PIRATE GRAMMAR
LINK TO THE PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN SCREENPLAY
THE GRAMMAR OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
REVOLUTIONARY GRAMMAR
THE DECAY OF ENGLISH
THE RESURGANCE OF FORMAL GRAMMAR
THE USE OF “AMONGST” ESPECIALLY IN RADICAL WRITING
BY ANARCHISTS, ETC.
THE HUMOR OF GRAMMAR
PEOPLE ENJOY SPEAKING “BAD” OR “INCORRECT” GRAMMAR ON PURPOSE
The use of ain’t.
Deliberate use of incorrect past participle, ie Jill in the Young and the Restless, said “I thunk about it” and then laughed.
The Rolling Stones deliberate use of double negative, “I Can’t Get No Satisfaction.”
THE CODE OF PIRATES
THE CODE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
THE LANGUAGE OF OPPRESSION
THE LANGUAGE OF FREEDOM AND LIBERTY
LINKS TO FORMAL LOGIC
Works Cited
Kurtzman, Daniel. “George Bush Channels George Orwell. Can a Sitting President Be Charged with Plagiarism?” tompaine.com 26 Aug. 2002. 4 Nov. 2003
Alternet. http://www.alternet.org/story/13714/
One Nation: Patriots and Pirates Portrayed by N. C. Wyeth and James Wyeth. Written and directed by Stephen Labovsky. Farnsworth Art Museum and Brandywine Films. 2000.
Paine, Thomas. Common Sense. First published 1776. Ed. Isaac Kramnick. London: Penguin Books, 1976.
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Written by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio. Dir. Gore Verbinski. With Johnny Depp, Keira Knightly, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush. 2003. http://home.online.no/~bhundlan/scripts/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean_First-Draft.txt
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. Written by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio. Dir. Gore Verbinski. With Johnny Depp, Keira Knightly, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush. 2006.
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. Written by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio. Dir.Gore Verbinski. With Johnny Depp, Keira Knightly, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush. 2007.
“Reflections of a Friend: BMMS Grade 7 Reflections on the December 2, 1994 Visit by Human Rights Hero, Iqbal Masih of Pakistan.” Broad Meadow Middle School. 16 Nov. 2005 http://www.digitalrag.com/iqbal/broadmdw/visit/visit.html
The National Archives. “Online Exhibits.” http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/index.htmlThe National Archives. “The Magna Carta. ”http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/magna_carta/The National Archives. “The Magna Carta and Its American Legacy.”
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/magna_carta/legacy.html
Walter, Jess. Land of the Blind. New York: Regan Books, 2003.
AllPosters.com.http://www.allposters.com/gallery.asp?aid=2025717430&c=c&search=61773&GCID =s15100x001&KEYWORD=Wyeth+art
