My Side of the Mountain Book Study

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Recommended for: Primary Years (K-3rd), Intermediate Years (4th-8th)

This book study was originally designed for our October 2024 Book Club Pick My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George. Now available as a standalone study, you can download and use in your homeschool or as book study with a group. Create lasting connections through this rich story while you study themes such as science, nature, geography, history, and language arts. Each download includes:

My Side of the Mountain Book Study with weekly lesson plans, recipes, and more
My Side of the Mountain Book Report Template
My Side of the Mountain Extension Book List
Multimedia Reference Materials links
Book Club Meet-up Guide

Overview of My Side of the Mountain

My Side of the Mountain is an adventure story that begins when 12-year-old Sam Gribley decides to leave his family and their small, cramped New York City apartment to seek a quieter life and explore the world. Told from the first person through journal entries, notes, and drawings, Sam embarks on a journey in the Catskill Mountains, relying on his own survival skills to make it on his own. Along the way, Sam learns how to build fires, forage for food, and catch fish as he seeks independence in the woods. Prepared with only a few items like a pen knife, an ax, and the clothes on his back, Sam quickly learns that surviving in nature involves more than he has read about in books.

Themes covered in this study

Hemlock trees
Blizzards
New York and the Catskill Mountains
United States geography
Survival skills
Tree and foliage identification
Falcons
History of salt
Fire
Forest animals - raccoon, deer, skunk, weasel, rabbit
Daniel Boone
Winter birds
Barometers
Vitamins

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Digital Download Details

This file is a digital download and will be delivered electronically to the email address you use to check out. For best results, we recommend you print using Adobe Acrobat Reader, a free application.

Refund Policy

Due to the nature of digital downloads, we cannot offer refunds on any digital products. All digital download sales are final.

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Each book contains four weekly lesson plans to be used as a menu so parents can choose which activities to do each day.

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Fantastic!

This is so thoughtfully written to engage our kiddos with the book in creative and fun ways. Thank you!

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R., it’s not really fair that you trash all the work these people spent doing this guide because it offended you. Perhaps try and not take things personally and use what works for you and ignore what doesn’t. We can’t go about life feeling offended by history (no matter how awful) or other people’s views.

Love!

My kids and I are almost through this book/study and we have loved them SO much. The book is so rich and hilarious and provides so many opportunities for deep dives, and the book study was so thoughtfully created and truly brings the book to life. I’ve already bought two more studies since and I hope they keep coming!

A positive first book club experience!

We have enjoyed our first book club purchase! We are reading independently and completing the activities then will be joining cousins at the end for a "book club" party! We really like the supplemental videos and activities provided to enhance the read aloud experience.

Love this !

I was so excited to purchase this book club curriculum!, it’s exactly what we have been looking for!