In the year 1704, in an attempt to capture a valuable cargo of silver, Captain Bones Bilgewater’s pirate ship sank—and Bilgewater was never seen again. Three hundred years later, while on a field trip to the New Metropolitan Maritime Museum, pirate aficionado and sixth-grader, Alva Khoury, discovers that he and Bones lack the same virtue: self-control. Just when Alva is about to give up hope that he’ll find the self-control he needs to avoid being sent home from the only field trip he’s ever been interested in, he meets an eccentric museum curator who presents Alva with a gift from Bones Bilgewater himself.
- To provide the entire school with both a common language and set of expectations for student self-control
- To supply students with strategies they can use in situations when self-control is needed
- To model behavior that demonstrates self-control
- To show possible consequences of behavior that exhibits self-control and behavior that does not
- To provide students with incentive for controlling their impulses by making long-term goals seem more attractive
- To present students with strategies they can use to recognize and learn from their mistakes after a lapse in self-control
- To give students methods by which they can encourage self-control in their peers
- To discuss the difference between instant and delayed gratification in language that is useful to the students
- To help students understand that everyone has the capacity for self-control
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Space Requirements: 30x25 feet deep x 10 feet high ceiling
Audience Size: 350
Running Time: 40 minutes
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