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By Bob Otto / Staff Photographer

YUCAIPA - Will Wood looks the part and acts the part. He's a living, breathing model of Sir Francis Drake of the Renaissance Period from about 1460 to 1600. The seventh grade students taking part in the Renaissance Faire at Park View Middle School on Thursday were mesmerized by his performance.

"He is great," said seventh grade history teacher Becki Miller, who has coordinated the faire for the past five of the 10 years the school has held the event. "Our next Renaissance unit will be the age of exploration. Sir Francis Drake will be in our unit so when we (study) him they will know about him."

The seventh graders dressed in the attire of kings and queens, princes and princesses, knights and peasants. They moved about to several workshops testing their skill at wheat weaving and face painting. They played a game of Nine Men's Morris and learned about Renaissance weapons and horses.

The 4-H Pass Pioneers American Hoofbeat Drill Team demonstrated jousting as kids watched, wishing they were gallant knights aboard the steeds.

"We're trying to teach them about a knight's life from birth to death, and about Renaissance horses," said Drill Team Leader, Jenny Anderson. "A knight's horse was very expensive and worth about as much as a private jet plane is today."