Grade Level: 5-8

Salty Talk: Sailor’s Sayings in Today’s English Language

The Real Thing: Ship’s Biscuit

Learn the Ropes!

All Hands Shorten Sail Ahoy!

Boatswain’s Pipe

Reefing Topsails, 1832

Working Music: Sea Chanties & Call-and-Response Poetry

Block & Tackle from USS Constitution

Reading Symbols

Poetry and Songwriting: Broadside Poem

Medal for the Victory at the Battle of Lake Erie

Paintings of USS Constitution

Meet Jesse Williams: Returning Home Victorious Means Prize Money!

USS Constitution as a National Symbol

Columbia teaching John Bull his new lesson (Political Cartoon)

Build a Simple Sextant

A Boxing Match or Another Bloody Nose for John Bull (Political Cartoon)

Speaking Trumpet and Sailor’s Speak

Pardon Mawney Whipple’s Sword

Pardon Mawney Whipple’s Lock of Hair

Pardon Mawney Whipple’s Hat

Make Your Own: An Officer’s Hat (like Whipple’s)

Could You Be A Midshipman?

Sailor Story: Jesse Williams

Sailor’s Story: William Cooper

Sailor’s Story: William Sharp Bush

Sailor’s Story: Thomas Chew

Sailor’s Story: Sarah Clear

Sailor’s Story: Pardon Mawney Whipple

Sailor’s Story: Dorothea Cooper