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.
Teacher Notes
This series can be used to increase pupils' familiarity with a broad range of texts and narratives, including myths, legends and traditional stories and to make connections between these and other stories they are familiar with.
It will also support a broad range of writing objectives.
This series is relevant for teaching English at KS2, in England and Wales and Northern Ireland, and at First and Second Level in Scotland.
7. A fight and the Hispaniola captured. video
Jim slips away at night, sets the Hispaniola adrift and in the morning boards the ship
8. The pirates parley and the black spot. video
Jim returns to the stockade to discover that it is now in the hands of the pirates
9. An empty pit and Ben Gunn's surprise. video
Silver and his crew follow the map inland...but someone has beaten them to the treasure
