The poster, panel by panel
Handwritten text is transcribed with the student's wording, spelling, and punctuation preserved; letter case is normalized for legibility.
Title (marker, across the top)
John King: The Boy Pirate
Information panel 1 (pencil, top left)
John King: The Boy Pirate-Information:
- Passenger on merchant sloop Bonetta with his mother (Jamaica-Antigua)
- Bellamy captured the Bonetta Nov 9, 1716: looted her for 15 days
- King demanded to join the pirates, threatened to kill himself if restrained, threatened his mother
Portrait (colored pencil, top right)
John King as Erick drew him: a boy in a black tricorn hat with a skull-and-crossbones emblem, a red-and-blue striped shirt with a knotted red neckerchief, blue trousers — and yellow-and-black sneakers.
Information panel 2 (pencil, bottom left)
John King-information
- Died in the Whydah wrek, age at most 11
- Remains identified 2006: 11-in fibula in a shoe and silk stocking
Map (pencil and colored pencil, bottom right)
A hand-drawn route map of the voyage the pirates interrupted: Jamaica and Antigua in green, Hispaniola sketched faintly in pencil (labeled Haiti / Dominican Republic), and a route line traced through the Caribbean Sea. The labels, at their dots:
- Jamaica — "Where Bonetta came from"
- Caribbean Sea — "Where Bellamy captured the Bonetta Nov 9, 1716; looted her for 15 days"
- Antigua — "Where the Bonetta was supposed to go"