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KS2 English - Treasure Island: Episode 6

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6. The stockade and the pirates attack

The pirates are advancing on a wooden stockade where the Squire and the others have taken shelter.

Jim races down the hillside and bangs on the door of the stockade and he's admitted just before the pirates arrive, guns blazing. It turns out the stockade was built by Captain Flint at the time of burying the treasure hoard.

The Squire and the others have been able to make use of the guns stored there and the initial pirate attack is repelled.

Later Long John Silver arrives at the stockade, holding a flag of truce. He is admitted to the stockade and the others listen to his terms: Silver wants the treasure and he means to have it; if they will give him the treasure map he will spare their lives. But Silver is expelled from the stockade, his terms rejected.

Immediately the pirates launch another attack and at the end of the battle crew members on both sides have been killed and Captain Smollett has been badly wounded.

Resources

Guidance, worksheets and follow-up activities for use in school and at home (pdf)

Resource Pack

A quick guide to the characters in Treasure Island.

Meet the characters

Number the images on the PDF to place the events of the story in the correct order.

Sequencing activity

Download / print worksheet: complete the 'Wanted' poster for Long John Silver (pdf)

Resource Sheet 6

Download / print illustrations for follow-up activities (pdf)

Resource Sheet - Illustrations

More from this series

The Squire, Doctor and Captain escape the Hispaniola... under attack from the pirates.

5. Escape to the island and Ben Gunn

Jim slips away at night, sets the Hispaniola adrift and in the morning boards the ship.

7. A fight and the Hispaniola captured

Jim returns to the stockade to discover that it is now in the hands of the pirates

8. The pirates parley and the black spot