Treasure Island

• Create a Treasure Chest

• Using construction paper and a manila folder, create a flat treasure chest that can open. Decorate the outside to make it look like a treasure chest and write the title and author of the novel somewhere on it.

• We will add “treasure” to the chest as we read. To begin, you can go ahead and begin to create the following items:

• A flip chart for the following characters:

– Jim Hawkins

– Billy Bones

– Long John Silver

– Dr. Livesey

– Ben Gunn

– Squire Trelawney

– Captain Smollett

• Include in this flip chart a physical description for each, a list of personality traits for each, a quote that shows each character’s personality, and an important/significant action taken by each. You will NOT finish this chart until the end.

• A treasure map with 23 points. You will write a brief summary of each chapter on the map as we go so that we may “travel” through the book. Try to create backgrounds on the map that relate to what happens in the story. For example, if there is a huge storm in one chapter, the same area of the map might indicate a hurricane. Note: This is not necessarily a map of where the characters are in the novel, but is instead a map of the events in the novel.

• Pirate Vocabulary – on “coins” or “jewels,” write pirate terms/phrases and what they mean (or words that are strongly associated with pirates) as we come to them in the book. In Chapters 1 and 2, two words that you might write down are “seadog” and “cutlass.”

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• Be creative! There is not one specific way to create all of these items or to keep them in the treasure chests. You will continue to add to it throughout the reading of Treasure Island, so bring it each day.

Chapters 5 and 6 Add this assignment to your treasure chest:

Answer the following questions in complete sentences.

When you finish, someone who reads your answers should not be able to ask questions like “why?” or

“how?” or “what about this?”

1. Why do you think Jim trusts Dr. Livesey with the oilskin bag over the officer?

2. Why are the Squire and the doctor so excited about the map? Do you think they plan to return any treasure found to its rightful owners, or keep it all? With either case, how are they different from pirates?

3. What do you think would have happened if Pew had not been trampled by the horses? Would Jim have revealed himself; would Pew have played innocent; etc?

After answering the questions:

• Add vocabulary to your “jewels”

• Add points to your “treasure map”

• Add information to your character flippies

• Get with your small group and work on your books and assignments. You should get an assignment done today! (you should not necessarily have one already done)

After Reading Chapter 7

After Reading Chapter 8

Chapters 7-8 After reading Chapter

7– Make a prediction as to what might

happen because one of the crew members is Long John Silver. Use the illustrations

and depictions of Silver shown to help

you with your prediction.

After reading Chapter 8 – make a new prediction as to what might happen

because one of the crew members is Long John Silver. Use the information that you

receive in Chapter 8 to make your predictions. In other words, how might

Jim feel about Silver? Did your predictions change?

Chapters 9 and 10

• Add to your character flippies for Long John Silver and Jim.

– On Jim’s – How does learning about LJS’s plan most likely change his outlook on the trip? How is his character going to have to change?

– On Long John Silver’s – Why might he be described as a cunning character? Explain.

Chapters 11 and 12

• Write a diary entry from Jim’s perspective. Include the events of the night and the current time. Include his thoughts and feelings. Make the entry look like it is from an old diary. Place this in your treasure chest.

• Update your character flippies, pirate vocabulary, and treasure map!

Chapters 13 and 14

• Create a comic strip that shows either

– Jim’s first adventures off the ship (up to when he meets Ben Gunn)

– Ben Gunn’s story (up to this point)

• Add to your pirate vocabulary, treasure maps, and character flippies!

Chapters 15 and 16 • What is the effect of reading this part of the story

from someone else’s point of view? (Chapter 15)

• Choose one of the following characters and write the scene from his point of view (a page):

– Israel Hands

– The Squire

– Abraham Gray

• Add to your pirate vocabulary, character flippies, and treasure map.

Chapter 18 (25 & 26) Answer the following questions in complete sentences. Place

these in your treasure chest.

1. How does the condition of the ship reflect the crew’s mutiny? What does it say about their attitudes towards rules, regulations, and authority?

2. Why does Jim bring Hands his brandy?

3. Why does Hands so willingly obey Jim’s command to regard him as Captain? Why does he switch back to calling him Jim at the end of these chapters?

4. At the end of Chapter 25, how does Stevenson foreshadow another danger for Jim?

5. How does Jim’s pride disarm him twice?

6. How is Stevenson able to let the reader know that Jim has been stabbed and Hands has been shot without specifically saying so?

When you finish with the questions, do these items in this order:

• Add to your character flippies, vocabulary, and plot “treasure” map

• Read in your small group reading book

• If you are with the rest of your group and can talk, discuss what you read

• Complete the assignment for the day

• Work on old assignments that you never completed

• Either some more with your small group, or read an individually chosen book until the end of the period.

DO NOT LOSE THE SMALL GROUP BOOKS!!! RETURN THEM TO MRS. FIFIELD OR MS. LIVELY A.S.A.P.!

Chapter 18 (25 & 26) Answer the following questions in complete sentences. Place

these in your treasure chest.

1. How does the condition of the ship reflect the crew’s mutiny? What does it say about their attitudes towards rules, regulations, and authority?

2. Why does Jim bring Hands his brandy?

3. Why does Hands so willingly obey Jim’s command to regard him as Captain? Why does he switch back to calling him Jim at the end of these chapters?

4. At the end of Chapter 25, how does Stevenson foreshadow another danger for Jim?

5. How does Jim’s pride disarm him twice?

6. How is Stevenson able to let the reader know that Jim has been stabbed and Hands has been shot without specifically saying so?

When you finish with the questions, do these items in this order:

• Add to your character flippies, vocabulary, and plot “treasure” map

• Read in your small group reading book

• If you are with the rest of your group and can talk, discuss what you read

• Complete the assignment for the day

• Work on old assignments that you never completed

• Either some more with your small group, or read an individually chosen book until the end of the period.

DO NOT LOSE THE SMALL GROUP BOOKS!!! RETURN THEM TO MRS. FIFIELD OR MS. LIVELY A.S.A.P.!

Chapter 19

• Write a journal entry or “captain’s log” for Long John Silver, since we last saw him and up to this point. What happened while Jim was on his own? How would LJS describe it in his own words?

Chapters 20-21 (30-32) Answer the following questions in complete sentences, using

evidence from the text. Place these in your treasure chests. When finished, work on your maps, charts, and vocabulary,

then work in your small group.

1. Why are the buccaneers so wasteful?

2. How does Jim feel about Silver? Does he trust him? Why or why not?

3. How are the pirates equipped? What is the condition of their equipment? What does this say about their preparation?

4. When the men recognize Ben Gunn’s voice, why aren’t they afraid anymore?

5. How are Silver’s men affected by both their surroundings and the sounds they hear? Why aren’t the facts of the situation more powerful than what they hear?

Chapters 22-23

• Choose one of the following activities to complete:

– Cast the movie of Treasure Island. Explain what actor would play each role and why you chose that actor (the characters on your flippy charts).

– Create a print advertisement for the novel using the most compelling image from the novel (think about movie posters). Include a tag line and brief summary.