Cheapskate+Pirates

=Questions= Write a paragraph or so that states your question, explains why you chose that question, and what other questions you considered but decided against. Where did the pirates come from? the pirates came from the pirates came from the Barbary coast or North Africa Tripoli Tunis morocco Algiers etc........ Were there any famous pirates that we know of? Jean Lafitte many other were not mentioned. Lafitte was famous for pillaging and smuggling goods with his brother Pierre or Dominique. Did any pirates join the Navy? yes a number of pirates joined the army including jean Lafitte. Lafitte joined the navy so he could receive a pardon from the u.s. after the war he went back to his old ways and died in 1823 trying to capture a Spanish vessel. others joined for the same reason.Dr.young and us history.com. The question is where did the pirates come from and we got the Barbary coast and they went to America to help the Navy and the next question that came next in the process which is were there any famous pirates that we know of and it only said Jean Lafitte and many more and our group was wondering why it didn't say the other names of the pirates working for Jean Lafitte and. Did any pirates join the Navy? yes a number of pirates joined the army including jean Lafitte. Lafitte joined the navy so he could receive a pardon from the u.s. after the war he went back to his old ways and died in 1823 trying to capture a Spanish vessel.

=Gathering and Evaluating Evidence= Start by explaining where you began and what that turned up. Share the struggles you faced in this stage

we began by asking the question where did the pirates come from during our dilemma. then once we answered that we asked if there were any famous pirates so we searched online and came to a web site that stated that the most famous pirate was jean Lafitte and his brothers. after that we couldn't find anything so we tweaked our question to did any pirates join the navy and that's how we came to what were at now. we struggled when trying to find our answers. we had to search through a couple hundred web sites be for we found our answers. Then share with us the documents used. Describe how you considered source, context, corroboration, etc. What questions and answers came and went in this stage? Where did the pirates come from?, were there any famous pirates that we know of today? and Did any pirates join the Navy?

Evaluation... Document's source (who was the author, why was it written, who was it for???), context (what was the document's time and place and how did that make a difference?), close read (how did the author use language to portray a tone, an attitude, and express more than just the words he said?).

=Interpretation= What did you find? How do you feel about your conclusion? Was your conclusion surprising We found that a number of pirates joined to help the U.S. in the war and most of them stayed on after the war.and the most famous pirates and most powerful at the time was Jean Lafitte. I feel our conclusion is well thought out and written. Our group found some very surprising facts about pirates and the U.S. during our assignment.Some of the things we found was the famous pirate that helped us was Juan Lafitte