treasure island Flashcards
What is a thesis statement?
The main points/road map of your essay; your claim/argument in one sentence.✨♥︎✨♥︎✨
How do you support your thesis with “text evidence”?✨
Use quotes from the text to support & prove your claim/argument
What is an outline and why are they helpful?🩷
The skeleton and structure of your essay
They help you organize your thoughts
Explain the “hamburger” structure of a 5 paragraph essay.✨
Top bun: intro paragraph
Ingredients: body paragraphs- 3 main points
Bottom bun: conclusion/summary paragraph♥︎
Billy Bones:♥︎
An old sailor; a pirate. “The Captain” who receives the Black Spot then dies a drunkard
What is peer editing? 🩷Why is it important?
Sharing our rough drafts with a classmate. They might see things you don’t see about how to make your essay stronger!
Doctor Livesey:🌸
Local physician and district magistrate; he is a minor narrator in Chapters 16–18.
John Trelawney:
A country squire; a wealthy man who finances the trip to Treasure Island.
Long John Silver:
A Bristol tavern-keeper; ship’s cook; another pirate.
Mr. Arrow:✨✨✨
The first mate who goes missing- most likely he fell overboard from being drunk
Ben Gunn :🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷
The “man of the island,” who has been marooned there three years before; a reformed pirate who just wants a ride home and some cheese!♥︎
Captain Alexander Smollett:
The captain of the Hispaniola, the ship Trelawney has bought.🌸
Jim Hawkins:
Twelve- or thirteen-year-old boy, an innkeeper’s son. He is the novel’s main character 🩷
Where is Jim hiding when he hears about the plan to take over the ship?
The apple barrel
Israel Hands-🩷
a pirate, the gunman, Jim kills him in a fight aboard the Hispaniola accidentally
