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Concept/History
The Titanic was one of the largest passenger cruise ship at its time in 1912. It was captained by Edward John Smith. It left England on April 10, 1912 and docked in France and Ireland before setting sail for New York. There were many immigrants on the ship from Ireland who were leaving for New York. She was powered by coal furnaces that were stocked at full heat during the voyage. There were reports of icebergs from other ships including the Caronia and the Baltic. The captain was pressured by Bruce Ismay, the chairman of the White Star Ship Lines to sail full speed ahead despite all the warnings to slow down. The ship struck an iceberg a few hours before April 15, 1912. She was hit on the side of the ship and she started to fill up with water. During this time, women and children are put into life rafts. The bottom of the interior of the ship filled up fast and tipped the boat vertically. It sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912 at 2:30am. (Information gathered from the following websites: http://www.titanicstory.com/timeline.htm and http://www.pbs.org/lostliners/titanic.html )
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Context:
Our class has just gone over Ireland and immigration. We have talked about when and how Irish immigrants came over to Western Europe and America. We went over the textile mills of the New England. This Titanic web quest is the finally of the Ireland immigration unit. It’s as tragedy that deserves to be talked about and that pertains to the unit.
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Goals:
The goals of this web quest are to focus on perspective and bias. Each student has different roles that are very extreme to each other. They must use each role to examine how they would have felt on the ship during a tragedy. Strong and descriptive adjectives will be focused on to make their journal authentic.
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MLR:
Social Studies
E. History
1) Explain that history includes the study of past human experience based on available evidence from a variety of sources.
2) Identify various major historical eras, major enduring themes, turning points, events, consequences, persons, and timeframes, in the history of the community, Maine, and the United States.
Rationale: Students will find articles online about the sinking of the Titanic and will recreate a first person tale of these events. Students will use different online resources to gather information to make this accurate to each student’s role.
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