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Educational worksheet for students to identify proper nouns in a story about a pirate adventure.

Worksheet titled "Common and Proper Nouns" with a story about Jim Hawkins and Billy Bones, featuring a small illustration of a pirate and a treasure map.

Worksheet titled "Common and Proper Nouns" with a story about Jim Hawkins and Billy Bones, featuring a small illustration of a pirate and a treasure map.

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Problem:


The task is to identify and circle all the proper nouns in the given story. Proper nouns are specific names of people, places, or things, and they are always capitalized.

Solution:



#### Step 1: Understand what proper nouns are
Proper nouns are specific names for:
- People (e.g., Jim Hawkins, Billy Bones)
- Places (e.g., Admiral Benbow Inn, Treasure Island)
- Specific objects or entities (e.g., Silver, Ben Gunn)

#### Step 2: Analyze the text and identify proper nouns
We will go through the story sentence by sentence and highlight all the proper nouns.

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Story Text:

> Jim Hawkins lived with his mother at the Admiral Benbow Inn on the coast of England. One evening, an old sailor named Billy Bones arrived at the inn.
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> Jim decided to get a ship and a crew, and go search for Treasure Island. The crew's cook was a large man with one leg named Long John Silver. Silver was a charismatic sailor, and everyone liked him.
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> The ship sailed out of the port, and traveled for many days. Soon Treasure Island appeared on the horizon. Everything seemed to be going well, until suddenly a mutiny occurred aboard the ship. The mutiny was led by none other than Long John Silver. It turned out the crew members were actually pirates.
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> The pirates took Jim to Treasure Island. Jim managed to escape. As he ran through the jungle, he met a man named Ben Gunn, who had been stranded on Treasure Island for many years.
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> Meanwhile Silver and his crew arrived at the location of the treasure, but the treasure was missing. Ben Gunn had moved the treasure, and far away from the pirates, he showed it to Jim.
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> Together they loaded the treasure onto the ship and sailed away, leaving the pirates stranded on Treasure Island.

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#### Identified Proper Nouns:
1. Jim Hawkins
2. Admiral Benbow Inn
3. England
4. Billy Bones
5. Treasure Island
6. Long John Silver
7. Silver
8. Ben Gunn

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#### Final Answer:
The proper nouns in the story are:
- Jim Hawkins
- Admiral Benbow Inn
- England
- Billy Bones
- Treasure Island
- Long John Silver
- Silver
- Ben Gunn

These should be circled in the text as per the instructions.

Final Answer: \boxed{Jim Hawkins, Admiral Benbow Inn, England, Billy Bones, Treasure Island, Long John Silver, Silver, Ben Gunn}
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