THINK, PAIR, SHARE What topic/event will be looking at? What do you know about it?

Titanic LO: To be able to understand the events of the Titanic. To practice our retrieval skills.

The story of the Titanic Watch a documentary of the Titanic: 6lQ 6lQ Split your page into four boxes: facts, myths, opinions, questions Make notes as we watch the documentary. What 3 key facts can you feedback? Can we answer each other’s questions?

Reading the story We will read the ‘Sinking of the Titanic’ as a class. In pairs, write down 3 inferences about: -Benefits of the Titanic ship -Problems about the Titanic -Opinions of the disaster.

Quote selecting You will work in groups of 3 to match up the quotes to the inferences about the Titanic. Roles- one runner, 2 investigators (stay by the sheet) The runner will have to select a quote and bring it back to the group to decide which inference it matches. There is one quote that does not match any! You must also create your own inference and find a quote from the article that matches.

Answers InferenceQuote The Titanic brought people of different statuses together. ‘Her passengers were a mixture of the world's wealthiest basking in the elegance of first class accommodations and immigrants packed into steerage’ The Titanic was not well equipped for a disaster. ‘She carried only 20 lifeboats - enough to provide accommodation for only half her 2,200 passengers and crew’.accommodation Passengers on the Titanic were desperate to survive. ‘As the forward portion of the ship sank deeper, passengers scrambled to the stern’. Passengers on the Titanic were helpless and in panic. "We could see groups of the almost fifteen hundred people still aboard, clinging in clusters or bunches, like swarming bees; only to fall in masses, pairs or singly, as the great after part of the ship’. Others?

Plenary: Individually write down: 5 facts about the Titanic with 5 matching quotes 2 inferences about the Titanic 1 overall feeling about the Titanic disaster.