Yet unbelievably, many survivors of the Titanic did just that in this page-turning nonfiction account of the sinking of the Titanic. That is why I cannot imagine being submerged in 28 degree water for HOURS and surviving with no limbs amputated from exposure. Temperature was in the 50's and my teeth were chattering and blue withinĪ short amount of time. Imagine a big block of ice being dropped onto your chest. Whooee, I was so unprepared for air whooshing out of my lungs when I hit the water. But I found out I didn't when I decided to

Scholastic Info. (There’s a special teacher price of $4.49 for the paperback version.I grew up in the Land of 10,000 Frozen Lakes.882 1/2 Amazing Answers to Your Questions about the Titanic.

Suggested Supplemental Texts to Increase Student Understanding/ Engagement: I use this as I’m teaching the book to plan questions and create reading assignments for students. This guide includes challenging vocabulary named and defined, a summary of each page of the book, important inferences students need to glean from the text, and content students may confuse or misunderstand. If you are using the 2014 paperback, you can still utilize this reading guide, simply noting chapter breaks. This reading guide was prepared from the 2012 hardcover edition of the book. This greatly contributed to student engagement (and helped my visual learners). Once you get students past the historical context in the first few chapters, it’s an extremely engaging book for readers. To help students better understand much of the domain specific vocabulary in the first few chapters, I pulled a few books that include diagrams and photos from the production of the ship. The book includes a seamless balance of narratives from passengers and historical information about the ship. This is particularly useful when teaching Common Core Informational Texts standards. The book is 304 pages/ 1040 Lexile Level and includes an abundance of primary sources from the era of the ship’s sinking. It was published in 2012 originally and a new edition came out in 2014. I chose the book because it is a work of narrative non-fiction. Last year, I read Titanic: Voices from the Disaster by Deborah Hopkinson with my 7th Grade Book Club.

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