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Hiya! Are you visiting from Homeschool Freebie of the Day? Nice to meet you! Why not tune in to my feed, or take a peek at my Tumblr, or check out the Idea Box for more interesting lessons and songs? Don't forget to visit the Book Arts Bash and see how homeschoolers and homeschooling parents can get their work read by NYC agents and editors, NYT best-selling authors, and others you hear about in Publisher's Weekly. Don't miss it! Now... on to your regularly scheduled Treasure Island Unit Study:

It's here! The Treasure Island unit study you've been staying up nights longing for! Ready to download and use in your homeschool family, your co-op, or even your regular old classroom! Get out your eye patch and saw off your leg -- it's time to launch the Hispaniola and go search for Captain Flint's lost cache of Spanish gold! Since the book itself is so full of pirates being skewered and shot in their pursuit of financial gain, I'm giving away the lessons for free. Free is the new ARRRRRGHHHH!

This printable 35-page PDF includes twelve lessons to take you and your student through Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. You'll learn ancillary skills like boxing the compass, reading signal flags, and telling time with ship's bells. Write your own pirate story, make an oilskin treasure map, and learn the songs from the novel. Six vocabulary worksheets, one for each section of the book, introduce nautical terms like hawser and capstan along with regular old words like incongruous and dexterity. Click the cover page to get the PDF. No charge.



This seminar was written for use in our homeschooling co-op and classroom-tested on a group of eight 6-9 year old boys. They approved of it, especially the knot-tying, the skits, and the shouting "Yo Ho HO."

Download the entire class now as a PDF! Treasure Island Seminar Or, you can visit the page I created for the parents to download materials as they were coming out, week by week. There you will find individual pages and worksheets. Note: The old versions have been updated and are now new and improved, so if you download the individual pages, you are not getting the latest version! I recommend downloading the full thing.

My pirate class building ships:




And our pirate party at the grand finale, provided by Shez aka Ben's mum:



Enjoy! Send me pictures! Long John Silver awaits!

Hiya! Are you visiting from Homeschool Freebie of the Day? Nice to meet you! Why not tune in to my feed, or take a peek at my Tumblr, or check out the Idea Box for more interesting lessons and songs? I'd love to hear from you!

Update: If you're trying to download the PDF and you get a message like, "This file is corrupted and can't be fixed," it may be that you do not have the latest version of Acrobat Reader. You can download that from this web site for free.

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9 Responses to “Treasure Island Homeschool Seminar: Literary Lesson Plans and Nautical Worksheets”

  1. # Anonymous Anonymous

    Remarkable creativity, intelligence, and also, generosity in evidence here.  

  2. # Blogger Mrs. C

    This is great!! We tried to read it last year and it was too hard for our boys. We ought to try again sometime this year! I've bookmarked this for "later," so please don't delete your post! :]  

  3. # Blogger Makita

    Awesome! Thank you so much! You are a gem!  

  4. # Anonymous Michelle

    We haven't read Treasure Island, yet.
    Thanks for making this available.
    I found you at The Erskine Family
    HomeschoolFreebieOfTheDay.com

    Thanks Again,
    Michelle  

  5. # Anonymous Anonymous

    tried t open this filee ffrom freebie of the day and kept rreading 'this file is damaged and cannot be repaired" so came to the site and same thing happened on loading a PDF filee here... tried to load the older lesson plans but would not access lesson 4 nor 11 nor 12..... not certain where to from here, but lookeed to be an interesting resource

    pamela  

  6. # Blogger Lostcheerio

    Hi Pamela! Welcome to the blog. :) If you like, I can try sending you an email with the PDF attached. I also don't mind sending you the Publisher file. Let me know your email address and I'll send it along.

    Mine is: jackets at rpsd dot com  

  7. # Anonymous Tor

    This is pure awesome. Thank you for making this resource available! My 7 year old has read Treasure Island Twice, and I've read it to her once. It's one of her favorite books. Now we're going to go through it again, but with your resource guide. Very exciting!

    I just started a blog myself (www.torcountry.com), which will include homeschool stuff in the mix, and your work on this inspires me to do something similar. Thank you!  

  8. # Blogger Undercover Angel

    I wanted to download this so badly. We will be starting to read Treasure Island in October and this study guide looked perfect for our family. However, when I tried to download it from freebieoftheday I also got errors that the file was damaged and the file wouldn't open. Additionally, when I tried to download it from here the same thing happened. I don't know if it's allowed or not, but if there is anyway someone could email it to me I would be eternally grateful.  

  9. # Blogger Tracie

    wow! Thank you so much for putting all of this together and posting it! My son picked up Treasure Island at our library's used book sale on Friday and read the whole book that same day. He's totally in love with it. It will be so much fun to add this to our homeschool day! (I tried to download it from Homeschool Freebie of the Day on Friday but I kept getting errors)

    Thanks again!  

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