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A Teaching Unit for Treasure Island by Joan Bigelow
Welcome, Introduction, Treasure Island Map, Piratical Research,
Web Sites, Bibliography, Ship Parts, Hispaniola, Jolly Roger,
Map Game, Project, Puppet Show, Vocabulary, Parent Letter, Teacher
Synopsis, Bibliographical Guide http://www.dreamcatchers.net/treasure/
Related topics
Pirates, Pieces of Eight, and Pacific Nights by Anthony
F. Franco
"a multidimensional unit designed for middle school English
and Social Studies classes on the Golden Age of piracy during
the early Eighteenth Century and the lure of treasure which beckoned
seamen and landlubbers alike. The vehicle for exploration of these
themes is the work of Robert Louis Stevenson through such classics
as "Treasure Island," "Kidnapped," "The
Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and "A Childs
Garden of Verses." http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1981/2/81.02.02.x.html
(Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute; )
About the author
Robert Louis Stevenson was born to Thomas and
Margaret Isabella Balfour Stevenson in Edinburgh on 13 November
1850. From the beginning he was sickly. Through much of his childhood
he was attended by his faithful nurse, Alison Cunningham, known
as Cummy in the family circle. She told him morbid stories about
the Covenanters (the Scots Presbyterian martyrs), read aloud to
him Victorian penny-serial novels, Bible stories, and the Psalms,
and drilled the catechism into him, all with his parents' approval.
Thomas Stevenson was quite a storyteller himself, and his wife doted
on their only child, sitting in admiration while her precocious
son expounded on religious dogma. Stevenson inevitably reacted to
the morbidity of his religious education and to the stiffness of
his family's middle-class values, but that rebellion would come
only after he entered Edinburgh University. More...
(Andreas Teuber; )