A WebQuest to Remember Introduction Look around the room. What do you see? I see a group of students who may or may not want to be in class right now. Perhaps when you look around you see friends, teammates, or neighbors. If your parents walked in they would see their perfect little angels. Why does every person see something different? It is called perspective and each one of us has it. Our perspective is based on our own individual experience, which may bias the way we see and interact with the world we live in. How does all of this relate to you?

You and a classmate have been commissioned to create a virtual museum exhibit based on the novel A Night to Remember. You must use your knowledge of the book in conjunction with reputable information you find online to create a multi-media exhibit that you will present to your classmates. You will find out later what you must include and suggestions on where to find it. Remember, be creative but true to history. Think about what your patrons will see and learn when they view your exhibit. Good luck!

Task You will be creating a multi-media museum exhibit about the book we just read: A Night to Remember. Your goal is to take on the perspective of a person living when the Titanic sank. You will be developing an exhibit that tells people who don't know anything about the disaster exactly what happened. There will be two people in your group creating one exhibit. Choose 1 of the following: A Third Class Passenger Survivor Exhibitor Liberal Exhibitor Conservative Exhibitor Financial Backer Exhibitor A Victim's Family Member Exhibitor

The final product will be displayed for the class in a PowerPoint presentation that you will create as a group. You must use your creativity, knowledge of the Titanic, understanding of the novel and ability to find credible research online to create your PowerPoint exhibit. Please see Process to find out what you should include in you exhibit. Good luck!

Process This project is an exercise in exploring perspective. A Night to Remember is a nonfiction novel about the sinking of the RMS Titanic. How would you fictionalize an account of the events of April 14, 1912? Would your point of view change if you were involved in politics, if you were financially involved, or if you were a family member of a victim or survivor? These are different perspectives. You will develop a creative exhibit, based on facts, working from the frame of mind of these people. You must be creative but concrete in your facts. Here we go...perspective

The 5 perspectives are very different The third class passenger survivor's perspective will provide the viewer with information that they are infrequently allowed access to after a disaster. Very often, in order to prevent the general public from knowing the bad and the ugly of a situation, a survivor's perspective is subtly omitted from published reports. It will be this group member's job to expose the ugly truths of what they experienced. This person may want to include information about their living quarters as well as the way they were treated during the rescue effort. This exhibit should reflect the bias third class passengers experienced because of their socioeconomic status and how that bias effected their experience. Choose your images, sounds, videos and poetry wisely as to make your exhibit as effective and interesting as possible. Use quotes from A Night to Remember to strengthen your argument. bias The liberal exhibitor will be responsible for providing the public with a factual account of the sinking of the Titanic from a liberal person's perspective. This person would have been alive and in their late twenties when the Titanic sank. The liberal exhibitor has a strong opinion about the event. Why it happened, what could have been done differently, who is to blame? These are questions the liberal exhibitor will have to consider. Choose your images, sounds, videos and poetry wisely as to make your exhibit as effective and interesting as possible. Use quotes from A Night to Remember to strengthen your exhibit.liberal

The conservative exhibitor will be responsible for creating an exhibit that presents information about the sinking of the Titanic from a conservative perspective. This person would have been in their late twenties when the Titanic sank and, like the liberal exhibitor, has a strong opinion about what happened that fateful day. The conservative exhibitor will have their own ideas about who is to blame, what should have been done differently and how to move forward. Choose your images, sounds, videos and poetry wisely as to make your exhibit as effective and interesting as possible. Use quotes from A Night to Remember to strengthen your exhibit.conservative The financial backer has a very unique perspective. We know from the novel that White Star Lines was responsible for the construction of the Titanic. How would somebody, responsible for building the doomed ship feel after is sank? Remorseful? Responsible? Indifferent? Were the people behind the construction of the Titanic held accountable for what happened? How would somebody from this perspective explain the events of April 14, 1912 to someone who knew very little about the sinking of the Titanic? These are questions you should consider as you move forward in the construction of your exhibit. Choose your images, sounds, videos and poetry wisely as to make you exhibit as effective and interesting as possible. Use quotes from A Night to Remember to strengthen your exhibit.White Star Lines

The victim's family member has a very unique perspective. You can find many accounts from survivors that will detail their memories of what happened that night and might give you an idea of what your family member experienced. Finding reactions from victims' families may be more difficult, but if you can find credible information or develop a historically based exhibit from your own creativity, feel free. Choose your images, sounds, videos and poetry wisely as to make your exhibit as effective and interesting as possible. Use quotes from A Night to Remember to strengthen your exhibit.survivors Use information from the novel to augment your exhibit. How many people died, how many survived? How many warnings did the Titanic receive? Who came to their rescue? If you can't find this information in the novel, you will use the internet to find credible information for your exhibit. Some links will be more useful than others. Websites that explain the reaction to the sinking of the Titanic will be helpful as would letters, articles and maps. You may also want to read articles written about the Titanic, its construction, layout and the sinking itself. Some resources are more credible than others you will find. For example, the Titanic Historical Society or the BBC will be more reliable than Wikipedia, which is never a source.links reaction letters articles Titanic Historical Society BBC

This will be a multi-media exhibit. To ensure that your exhibit will be interesting to viewers, you will be expected to include the following in each exhibit: Two imagesimages One sound file One poem poem Two relevant quotes from A Night to Remember

Your exhibit can be made up of several slides but must be clearly labeled as belonging to a specific exhibitor (point of view). How will you organize your exhibit? What information will you need to include that makes your perspective evident? How will you keep the viewers engaged while still conveying information? These are the questions your group must think about while developing your exhibit. Please feel free to include more than the bare minimum and include more images, sound files, videos, quotes and poetry or anything else you think will help enhance your exhibit.

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Perspective the interrelation in which a subject or its parts are mentally viewed ; also : point of viewpoint of view Back

Point of View a position or perspective from which something is considered or evaluated Back

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