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1 The Highlights of Homeschooling History Literature Unit Study Daniel Boone Created by Teresa Ives Lilly Sold by

2 INTRODUCTION This history/literature study guide is created to use in three week sessions. Each unit contains a historical story, a daily journal question and one other daily activity. These activities are: Bible Verse Activities Vocabulary Skills Interpretation Skills Sequencing Poetry Skills Drawing Craft Activity Map Skills Comprehension Skills Cause and Effect Skills Encyclopedia Skills Creative Writing Science Activity Report Writing We suggest the student read the story in it s completion before beginning the study guide. One skill area a day will allow the unit to be completed in three weeks. Your children can learn History and Literature skills at the same time. Look ahead, because you may need to collect some items for the Science or Art projects.

3 Daniels Memories It was the year Daniel Boone, in his buckskin jacket, stood watching his family get into the canoe he had built. It would take them to Missouri. What a sad day it was, leaving Kentucky, the land that Daniel had helped tame. We ll have a good home in Missouri now, His wife, Rebecca, told him. The Spanish Government had asked Daniel to come to Missouri and help open the land for settlers like he had done earlier in his life, in Kentucky. I ll meet you there, Daniel told his family. He wasn t going with them to Missouri. He planned on walking. They all waved good-by. They were use to their father being away for long times. He had always been a wanderer and a frontiersman. Daniel watched them go. He remembered his two sons that were missing from the family: Israel and James. Both had been killed by Indians during their life in Kentucky. Even with the loss of his sons, Daniel loved Kentucky and hated to have to leave. As Daniel walked he reflected on his life. As a child, Daniel loved the wilderness. He had Indian friends. They taught him to hunt, trap, skin and fix meat. His father was a blacksmith and taught Daniel to work with metal so Daniel could fix his own traps in the wilderness.

4 When he was older he married Rebecca and they had many children. Daniel wasn t home much because he liked to go out into the wilderness and hunt. It was during one trip that he discovered Kentucky. He fell in love with it right away. Daniel was hired by the government to open a path to the area of Kentucky for settlers to follow. Daniel moved his family to Kentucky in The pathway that he cleared was called The Wilderness Road. The land they settled in was given to them by the Cherokee Indians. His family and other settlers built a fort in what is called Boonesborough, Kentucky. Other Indian tribes did not want to share the land with the white men. Therefore, the fort was attacked from time to time. Daniel remembered all the Indian battles he had fought in. During the year of 1776, his own daughter, Jemima, had been taken captive by Indians in Kentucky. She was wise enough to leave a trail for her father to follow and Daniel had rescued her. At that time the Colonies on the Eastern boarder of America were having problems with the English. The Colonists wrote the Declaration of Independence in This was a letter they sent to King George III. It told him that they wanted freedom from England. King George sent soldiers to the Colonies to make the Colonists behave. The fighting that followed was called, The American Revolutionary War. This war didn t seem to effect the Boone family at first. They were busy building their log cabin homes. Eventually, the British did try to push their way into the wilderness. Daniel even had to lead the people at the fort in Boonesborough to victory against the British.

5 Daniel recalled how a Shawnee brave captured him in The Indian took Daniel to Ohio. The chief liked Daniel. The Indians seemed friendly although they were planning to attack Daniel s home fort. Daniel escaped and went back to Boonesborough. His family left the fort for protection. Daniel stayed and fought the Indians when they came. The attack lasted nine days. They almost succeeded in getting into the fort by digging a tunnel. God had other plans though. He sent rain that caved in the tunnel. The Indians gave up and left, then peace came to the fort. I ll never forget my life in Kentucky, Daniel thought. I owned so much land until lawyers came and said the land wasn t mine. I m 64 years old now. I can t fight it. I ll have my own land in Missouri. Daniel walked all the way to Missouri. As expected, he scouted and cleared trails for more settlers. He owned land for a time there too. He spent much of his later life in the wilderness hunting. He sometimes lived with his daughter Jemima. Daniel lived to be 86 years old. Daniel loved the wilderness and respected the survival skills the Indians taught him. Because of his hunger for adventure, the United States of America took a huge step through the doors he opened into the west. Daniel Boone will always live on as one of the greatest legends of our nation.

6 Daily Journal Questions Here are journal questions for each day. Write the answers on another paper or in a journal book. 1. Would you like to go on a canoe or a speed boat and why? 2. Would you have liked to have gone hunting in the wilderness? Why? 3. Do you think you would have liked to have been a settler of a new territory? Why? 4. Do you want to own your own land when you get older? 5. Do you see yourself as a trailblazer or a follower? Why? 6. Did you ever have to move? Where from? Tell about it. 7. Do you believe that owning your own land is a strong enough reason to leave your home country? 8. Would you rather travel in the North, South, East or Western United States and why? 9. Did you ever play cowboys and Indians? Is this really a good game for children? 10. What would you do if you were kidnapped? 11. What is the most exciting form of transportation you have ever ridden? Why? 12. Daniel spent a lot of time out in the wilderness. Was this a very good way to have a strong family? 13. Do you think the settlers of Boonesborough were Christians? 14. What do you think was the most important thing about opening the Wilderness Trail? 15. Why do you think it is important for people to have legal ownership of their land?

7 Bible Verse Activity Daniel s daughter remembered the things her father taught her, so when she was captured she was able to leave a trail for him to follow. Parents should teach their children how to follow Christ the same way. How does the Bible teach us this concept? Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is older he will not turn from it. Proverbs 22:6 Copy the Bible verse here in your best handwriting. Find other verses in the Bible that agree with this concept. Write them here.

8 Vocabulary fort track hunt buckskin wilderness canoe scout British chief lawyer survive legend Write each word and it s definition:

9 Word Search R E Y W A L H T M S B U C K S K I N U K B O E Q N E C R R C R D M B O H V M I A I B N N I I U D A R T E A E V S C O U T I C F E G T R O F J S S E N R E D L I W H H U N T Y L I K H K K Y K B L Y N Q G BRITISH BUCKSKIN CANOE CHIEF FORT HUNT LAWYER LEGEND SCOUT SURVIVE TRACK WILDERNESS

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