Showcase 2026 · permanent archive

Student projects

The final projects from the Navigating Piracy Showcase at Collins Middle School — the digital ones, story maps built in Map Studio, and the physical ones, posters and writing pieces photographed and transcribed. All of it committed here so it outlasts the classroom.

Students are credited by first name only — as written on the work, or as provided by the class facilitator. Handwritten pieces are transcribed with the student's wording, spelling, and punctuation preserved.

Story maps

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Posters & writing

“Hello my name is John King”

Writing piece · By Erick · Told as John King, the boy pirate · transcribed from the original

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John King: The Boy Pirate

Poster · By Erick · Information panels, a portrait, and a hand-drawn map of the Bonetta's voyage

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Barry Clifford and Southack’s chart

Poster · The 1984 discovery of the Whydah and the 1717 chart that found her, with Southack's note copied out by hand

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Letters from Sam Bellamy to Maria Hallett

Writing piece · By June · Three letters in Bellamy's voice, April 24–26, 1717 — the last written the night of the storm

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The Story of Albus Sharktooth

Writing piece · By Kelly and Jasmely · An invented pirate's whole life, told first-person — forced aboard at thirteen, shipwrecked at 23, home with the Pocumtuck to age 92

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John King, the youngest known pirate

Illustrated fact sheet · By Kelly and Jasmely · A pencil drawing of the boy pirate with researched notes

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Breaking News: John King

Newspaper front page · The boy pirate's death reported as a bulletin, with the Manchess painting pasted in

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Breaking News: John King and the Savage report

Newspaper front page · The Bonetta commander's real testimony, hand-lettered in marker — "he would kill him self if he was a restraid"

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Breaking News: Philip Ashton returns

Newspaper front page · By Destiny · The Marblehead fisherman kidnapped by Ned Low, datelined 1725 — the year he really walked home

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Letters between John King and John Julian

Writing piece · The Whydah's two youngest crew members as pen pals — folded like real mail, signed in character

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So no one may forget: Paulsgrave Williams

Writing piece · The pirate who got away clean — "He waited two weeks for a man he didn't know was already dead"

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