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My Side of the Mountain Book Study

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Recommended for: Intermediate Years (4th-8th)

Create lasting connections through this rich story while you study themes such as science, nature, geography, history, and language arts. This four-week book study is a digital download you can use in your homeschool or as book study with a group. 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 by Jean Craighead George 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
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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See a Sample Lesson Plan

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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Customer Reviews

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Casey Gaines
Book Study

These book studies are phenomenal! I love how much detail there is and the extra activities and resources are so helpful. My kids are always excited when we start and it's been a joy watching them fall in love with reading.

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Brianna Wilkerson
Fun, comprehensive and simple!

Just started Kindergarten with my 5 year old and preschool with my 3 year old and we love doing family book clubs and reading chapter books together with dad in the evenings! I wanted to choose books that we all would enjoy and have follow up activities if they wanted to dive deeper! Treehouse book studies have been the solution! Some weeks we just read the book, some weeks we go deeper with the recommended videos, activities and books. As my kids get older we will add more of the bonus activities in (and reread the books!), but right now, we are having fun reading longer books as a family and loving literature together! Can’t recommend these studies enough.

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Lindsay
Intermediate collection one

This is the first year using this and I’m so excited to start. A Homeschool mom shared it with me and she just loves it.

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Stephanie Sage
Timeless Classics

My family has been using Treehouse Schoolhouse book studies for a year now and will continue using them. As a parent, I look for these timeless classics. They are a perfect addition to our homeschool book club! Caddie Woodlawn is heartwarming tale very similar to the Little House series.

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Ashlee
Great addition to our homeschool this year!

Our whole family is enjoying this novel. The accompanying activities are lots of fun for the kids. It would be a little easier for me to plan if things were broken down by chapter instead of week and if the additional resources list were part of the weekly breakdown, but overall would still recommend!

—For researching sycamores, there’s a quick video from the University of Kentucky’s Tree of the Week series that works well. My kids loved the fun facts section included in that video.