Ashley Winters
RE 4030-435
30 January 2007
DRTA for The Not So Jolly Roger
Read the Title.
What do you think this story might be about?
Who do you think Roger is and why might be “not-so-jolly”?
Stop 1: end of page 4
Where were the boys?
What do you think The Book might be?
What do you think they see out on the ocean? How do you know?
Stop 2: end of page 7
Where did The Book take the boys the first time?
Why do they need to find the person in this time period that has the book?
Stop 3: end of page 13
How is Blackbeard described?
Why do you think Blackbeard counted off paces before they buried the treasure?
What happened when the boys fell out of the tree?
Stop 4: end of page 22
What is a cutlass?
How does Sam know that Blackbeard’s real name is Edward Teach?
How did the boys trick Blackbeard?
Stop 5: end of page 32
What do you think it means when one of the pirates says, “Stow the gab!”
What does it mean to “walk the plank”?
Stop 6: end of page 37
Where do you think they might find The Book?
What did Sam think the pirates were doing? Why do you think that?
Stop: end of page 45
Where did the boys want the pirates to take them?
Why did Blackbeard say they would be swinging from a noose if they sailed into NY?
Do you think the pirates will really give the boys part of the buried treasure?
Stop: end of page 51
What did they find when they dug up the buried treasure?
Why might it not be a good idea to trust Blackbeard who according to legends was “one of the nastiest pirates who ever lived”?
At the end of the chapter there was a gun shot and then the wonderful green time-traveling mist swirled up over them… what is happening?
Stop: end of book
Where did the book take the boys this time?
How do you think they felt to be back home?