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The document provides a biography of the famous pirate Blackbeard. It describes how he was born in England as Edward Teach and learned to sail. He later joined a pirate crew and became their leader, changing his name to Blackbeard. As Blackbeard, he terrorized ships in the Caribbean and was considered one of the most feared pirates until he was killed in battle.

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The document provides a biography of the famous pirate Blackbeard. It describes how he was born in England as Edward Teach and learned to sail. He later joined a pirate crew and became their leader, changing his name to Blackbeard. As Blackbeard, he terrorized ships in the Caribbean and was considered one of the most feared pirates until he was killed in battle.

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Learning A–Z level K Multi-level H K N

Blackbeard
the Pirate
Grade 2 Word Count 578
Lexile 590L Nonfiction • Biography

Refer to the Focus Question on page 2 of this title to guide


discussion and support additional learning connected to the text.

Blackbeard the Pirate tells the true story of the famous


pirate who terrorized the seas for years. Born in the
late 1600s, he learned to sail at an early age. Once he
began robbing ships, Blackbeard became one of the
most feared pirates on the sea until he was killed in
battle. Blackbeard’s true story is the inspiration behind
many of the colorful pirates in today’s books and movies.
Photographs, illustrations, and maps support the text.
Book and lesson also available at Levels H and N.

Photo Credits:
Page 3: © Moviestore collection Ltd/Alamy; page 6 (top): © Superstock; pages 6 (bottom), 7, 9 (bottom): © iStockphoto.com/Peter Zelei;
page 12: © Robert Willett/The News & Observer/AP Images; page 13: The Capture of the Pirate Blackbeard, 1718Ferris, Jean Leon Gerome/
Private Collection/The Bridgeman Art Library

For more great books visit Written by Kate Follett • Illustrated by John Walker
www.learninga-z.com
© Learning A–Z, all rights reserved.
Focus Question
Blackbeard Who was Blackbeard, and why is he

the Pirate
considered the most famous pirate of all?

Words to Know
attacked pirate
captured sail
crew treasure

Written by Kate Follett


Illustrated by John Walker
This is one of the pirate ships recreated for the Disney movie Pirates of the Movie and cartoon pirates may look funny, but real pirates like Blackbeard
Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl. (right) were colorful characters, too.

Table of Contents The Man Behind the Stories


The Man Behind the Stories . . . . . 4 Picture a pirate in your mind . Do
Becoming Blackbeard . . . . . . . . . . . 5 you think of a cartoon pirate with
a beard, an eye patch, and a parrot?
Blackbeard Ruled the Sea . . . . . . . 8
Blackbeard’s Last Fight . . . . . . . . 12 Three hundred years ago, real
pirates did sail the seas . One pirate
Blackbeard Sailed Into History . . 15
had a name that scared everyone .
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 He was known as Blackbeard .
Blackbeard the Pirate • Level K 3 4
Becoming Blackbeard The leader of the pirate crew put
Teach in charge of a pirate ship .
Blackbeard’s real name was Edward
They attacked so many other ships
Teach . He was born in England about
that everyone was afraid of them .
1680 . When he was old enough,
Teach learned to sail a ship .

England was at war . Teach joined the


crew of a ship that attacked enemy
ships to help the English navy . Soon,
he decided it would be better to join
a pirate crew, instead!
North Carolina
NORTH
South Carolina
AMERICA
Georgia
ATLANTIC
OCEAN
Florida
GULF OF Area where most Why did sailors become pirates?
MEXICO pirate attacks
happened In those days, sailors worked very hard but made very
little money. When a country was at war, any ship might
be hired to attack and steal enemy ships. It was dangerous
West Indies work. The hired sailors were paid a small reward for the
CARIBBEAN ships or treasure they took.
CENTRAL SEA
PACIFIC Pirates could attack any ship—even one from their
OCEAN
AMERICA
own country! Pirates could keep all the ships and treasure
Trading ships sailing through the Caribbean Sea were easy targets for themselves!
for pirates.

Blackbeard the Pirate • Level K 5 6


One day, Teach and his pirate crew Blackbeard Ruled the Sea
captured a large, fast, French ship . Blackbeard scared everyone who
The pirate leader gave the ship to saw him . He was a huge man with
Teach as a reward . Teach added a thick, braided, black beard . He
more cannons to make it a very stuck burning fuses in it . This
dangerous ship . Then he gave made his beard look as if it was
his ship a new name—the Queen on fire .
Anne’s Revenge.

The Queen Anne’s Revenge and Teach


soon became very famous . No ship
wanted to see the fast ship and
its black pirate flag chasing them .
Edward Teach was now Blackbeard,
the pirate .

The Golden Age of Piracy


During the 1700s, European countries set up new towns
in the Caribbean and North and South America.
English, French, Dutch, and Spanish cargo ships sailed
back and forth. They were easy targets for pirates.

Blackbeard the Pirate • Level K 7 8


Sailing a large ship close to the land
is hard to do . The water isn’t very
deep .

One day, Blackbeard and all of his


men were sailing home with their
treasure. Blackbeard sailed the
Queen Anne’s Revenge too close
Blackbeard’s black flag showed a skeleton stabbing a heart and holding an
hourglass. The hourglass showed that the victim only had a short time to
to the land . His ship got stuck in
give up or Blackbeard would attack. the sand near a town on the coast
Blackbeard soon had four fast called Beaufort .
ships and a crew of over 350 men .
Blackbeard told his men to move
One time, his four ships sailed to
the treasure onto the other ships .
Charleston, South Carolina . They
He dropped off many of his men
robbed every ship sailing in or out
on a nearby island .
of Charleston .
Then, Blackbeard sailed away,
Pirate’s Life for Me? taking the loot with him . Had he
How did Blackbeard get such a big crew? Pirates often
shared treasure with their crews. Most sailors got little pay. wrecked his ship on purpose so
If a pirate attacked their ship, sailors often chose to join the
pirates! Some enslaved people joined the pirates as a way
he could keep the treasure for
to escape slavery. himself?

Blackbeard the Pirate • Level K 9 10


Virginia The
Northern
Outer Banks
Islands
Bath
North Carolina
Beaufort
The Southern
Outer Banks
Islands
South Carolina

The wreck of the Queen Anne’s Revenge was found near the Beaufort Inlet,
Charleston off the coast of North Carolina, in 1996.
ATLANTIC
OCEAN
Blackbeard’s Last Fight
Georgia
For a time, it seemed that Blackbeard
had stopped being a pirate . He
got married and bought a house .
North Carolina People stopped worrying about him .

Bath Blackbeard soon went back to his


Florida Cape
Beaufort Hatteras old life, though . He went to sea
Beaufort Ocracoke
This map shows where the wreck Inlet Island in his last ship, the Adventure.
of Blackbeard’s ship was found Wreck of the
near Beaufort Inlet off Queen Anne’s Blackbeard began attacking other
the coast of North Carolina. Revenge
ships again .
Blackbeard the Pirate • Level K 11 12
The governor of Virginia was tired The two ships fought, firing their
of Blackbeard’s attacks . He sent a cannons for many hours . In the
fighting ship called the Ranger to heavy smoke from the cannon
find and capture Blackbeard . One fight, the Ranger’s crew hid . They
morning, the crew of the Ranger made it seem as though they had
saw the Adventure near the island been killed .
of Ocracoke .
Blackbeard thought
he had won, so
he climbed onto
the Ranger. The
Ranger’s crew
jumped out from
their hiding places
and the fight began again .

Blackbeard fought hard, but the


Ranger had too many men . He was
shot five times before he finally
died . The Ranger’s crew threw
Blackbeard’s last battle at Ocracoke became famous. Writers and poets Blackbeard’s body into the sea .
made Blackbeard’s life and death into a colorful tale.

Blackbeard the Pirate • Level K 13 14


Glossary
attacked (v.) page 5
acted aggressively against an opponent,
often with weapons in a battle; acted
harmfully toward

captured (v.) page 7


caught or took control of by force

crew (n.) page 5


a group of people who work together,
especially those who operate a vehicle
or machine

pirate (n.) page 4


a person who attacks and robs ships
Blackbeard Sailed Into History
at sea
Blackbeard’s true story may be
sail (v.) page 4
behind the colorful pirates in
to travel across water in a boat or ship
many books and movies . The
next time you hear a pirate story, treasure (n.) page 10
remember one real pirate in history: something that is very special or
Blackbeard! valuable

Blackbeard the Pirate • Level K 15 16

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