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Passengers of the Titanic: Traveling on an Ill-Fated Ship
Titanics passengers came from various places and walks of life, but all found themselves together on an ill fated ship. From luxurious staterooms to third class berths, experience what life was like aboard historys most famous ocean liner.
48 pages, Library Binding
First published July 1, 2014
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September 18, 2020
Informational and heartbreaking.
June 26, 2015
1. Twin Text: Your Life as a Cabin Attendant on the Titanic by Jessica Gunderson; Copyright 2012
2. The reason I choose Your Life as a Cabin Attendant is because it is a historical fiction picture book about one character on the Titanic. In the main text- Passengers of the Titanic- the author gives information about all of the different classes (upper, middle, lower), the different privileges and people in each class, and how each class experienced the sinking. The main text also gives many specific stories or snippets of individuals who were on the Titanic, giving the reader real-life stories. The twin text compliments this very well because the reader is "playing the role of Mary Thomas in our play 'Life on Titanic" (Gunderson, 2012, p. 3). The "director" of the play gives information about the Titanic throughout Mary's experience on the ship. In summary, Mary is a paid servant and gets to serve people in all classes. Therefore, the main idea of the book is to inform the reader on the class system, how each class was different, and what it might have been like for each group. In other words I chose these books together because Passengers of the Titanic gives real life facts, information, and stories of all class systems, and in Your Life as a cabin attend on the Titanic the reader puts themselves in the place of one passenger on the ship. Through this one character, the reader still experiences the different passengers, but gets to imagine the emotions that one character might have felt throughout the book.
3. Text Structure: Combined- Chronological sequence, Descriptive, Cause-Effect (for some chapters)
4. The instructional strategy I would use to teach these books would be a Venn Diagram. However instead of using two circles, I would use three circles, and students would compare the different class systems. During and after the reading of the main text, we would fill out the venn diagram together. Then after completing the chart, I would read aloud Your Life as a Cabin Attendant on the Titanic and ask students to think about how Mary viewed each class. We would add any additional information to our venn diagram from Mary's perspective.
Another activity I would do while teaching with these books would be giving a character profile card to each student before reading. On this card it would say their name, age, class, and background, as if they were a passenger on the Titanic. I would portion the profiles so that there is an accurate proportion of middle, upper, and lower class. Some students would have names of people mentioned in both books. During the reading of each book, student would periodically find out if their character die or survive based on when the book mentions their character. By the end of the unit each student would find out if they survived or died. After this, we would then have students who had characters in each class provide the emotions they had during the process. If you were upper class were you happy at the beginning? If you didn't survive, how did you feel after? How did you feel when you were learning about another class? Students would have discussion on the experience they had being their character, and we would fill in their comments and feelings in the Venn Diagram.
2. The reason I choose Your Life as a Cabin Attendant is because it is a historical fiction picture book about one character on the Titanic. In the main text- Passengers of the Titanic- the author gives information about all of the different classes (upper, middle, lower), the different privileges and people in each class, and how each class experienced the sinking. The main text also gives many specific stories or snippets of individuals who were on the Titanic, giving the reader real-life stories. The twin text compliments this very well because the reader is "playing the role of Mary Thomas in our play 'Life on Titanic" (Gunderson, 2012, p. 3). The "director" of the play gives information about the Titanic throughout Mary's experience on the ship. In summary, Mary is a paid servant and gets to serve people in all classes. Therefore, the main idea of the book is to inform the reader on the class system, how each class was different, and what it might have been like for each group. In other words I chose these books together because Passengers of the Titanic gives real life facts, information, and stories of all class systems, and in Your Life as a cabin attend on the Titanic the reader puts themselves in the place of one passenger on the ship. Through this one character, the reader still experiences the different passengers, but gets to imagine the emotions that one character might have felt throughout the book.
3. Text Structure: Combined- Chronological sequence, Descriptive, Cause-Effect (for some chapters)
4. The instructional strategy I would use to teach these books would be a Venn Diagram. However instead of using two circles, I would use three circles, and students would compare the different class systems. During and after the reading of the main text, we would fill out the venn diagram together. Then after completing the chart, I would read aloud Your Life as a Cabin Attendant on the Titanic and ask students to think about how Mary viewed each class. We would add any additional information to our venn diagram from Mary's perspective.
Another activity I would do while teaching with these books would be giving a character profile card to each student before reading. On this card it would say their name, age, class, and background, as if they were a passenger on the Titanic. I would portion the profiles so that there is an accurate proportion of middle, upper, and lower class. Some students would have names of people mentioned in both books. During the reading of each book, student would periodically find out if their character die or survive based on when the book mentions their character. By the end of the unit each student would find out if they survived or died. After this, we would then have students who had characters in each class provide the emotions they had during the process. If you were upper class were you happy at the beginning? If you didn't survive, how did you feel after? How did you feel when you were learning about another class? Students would have discussion on the experience they had being their character, and we would fill in their comments and feelings in the Venn Diagram.
December 15, 2014
This was the best of the set. Great book for kids on the passengers of the RMS Titanic. Since a child, I have been fascinated with this ship and it's untimely demise. This series of books (Crew, Building, Passengers, Search)is perfect for not only children but ever curious adults.
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