1. Welcome to the The Mary Celeste, 1872 Museum
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5. Artifact 1 Setting/ Point of View
The story is told in first person. The 12-year old girl is researching about a missing ship, The Mary Celeste. The ship sailed on the Atlantic Ocean during 1872.
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The girl views the situation in the beginning by the Mary Celeste mystery being a solvable mystery. The story goes back to The caption of the Dei Gratia spotted the May Celeste 600 miles away. The people on the ship Dei Gratia went over to the Mary Celeste and inspected it. When they went on the ship, they saw no one. Everyone disappeared off the ship. When Devau was in a room of the Mary Celeste he saw the chronometer, sextant, navigation book, the register were missing. What was missing on the ship was what the Mary Celeste crew needed to find their way around the sea. They also found the log opened to the date of November 25th at 8:00 am.
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7. Artifact 3 Book Citation & Author’s Style
The Mary Celeste, Jane Yolen and Heidi Yolen Stemple, 1999.
Time shift stories, in which a modern character is transported, back in time or a historical character is transported to the present.
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8. Artifact 4 Theme She found out some mysteries cannot be solved
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9. Artifact 5 Character Interactions
Through the story, we learned about history. About how they lied in the newspaper. In addition, when ships are found abandoned another captain who finds it can sell the goods, but they needed a court order. When the Dei Gratia found the Mary Celeste, they brought the ship back to sell the goods.
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10. Artifact 6 Character Traits & Theme
Some of the girl’s traits are focused on her work, hardworking, and determined. She found out some mysteries cannot be solved (theme). She is focused since she took time and effort to research. The girls is hardworking since she looked in books and on the internet to find out what happened to the Mary Celeste. In addition, she is determined because she wants to keep investigating because she thinks it is fun and interesting.
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11. Artifact 7 Other Character’s Perspective
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If another character told the story, the author would pick Devau as another character. The author would pick him because of what he saw on the on the ship. Devau saw what was missing and what was left on the Mary Celeste. In addition, he could tell what happened to the Mary Celeste. Also he would tell what he thought when he saw the Mary Celeste when he first found it.
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12. Artifact 8 Historical Fact from the Story
In the story it states that they lied in the newspaper. The historic fact from the story is true. The facts that prove the information is true are:
In 1884 J.Habakuk Jephson’s sensationalistic account, printed in Cornhill magazine set off waves of theorizing about the ships fate.
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13. Artifact 9 Historical Fact from the Story
In the story it states that. The Dei Gratia found the mary celeste. They saw the mary celeste 600 miles from Portugal. The historic fact from the story is true. The facts that prove that the information in the story is true are:
•According to the last entry in the ships log book the Mary Celeste was within sight of the Azones island of Santa Maria, some 500 miles from where the Dia Gratia would find it nine days later.
•An Island in the Azones is nearly 400 miles from where the Mary Celeste was found.
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14. Artifact 10 Historic Fact from Author’s Note
undamaged off the coast of Portugal by the Dei Gratia. The historic fact from the story is true. The facts to prove the information is true are:
On November 7, 1872, Benjamin Briggs sailed the Mary Celeste out of New York Harbor.
December 5, the crew of the Dei Gratia sighted the Mary Celeste.
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15. Artifact 11 Historical Fact from Author’s Note
In the authors note it states that bad weather whirlpools-even icebergs were said to have damaged the Mary Celeste or frightened the crew to abandon the ship. The historic fact from the story is false. The facts to prove the information in the story is false are:
A waterspout blew off the hatch covers and dumped so much water into the hold that men thought the ship was sinking. The barrels of alcohol gave off a flammable fumes and fearing explosion, they abandoned the ship.
Rough seas and clogged on board pump could have led Briggs to order the ship abandoned shortly after sighting land on November 25, 1872.
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16. Artifact 12 Primary Source
This is the Mary Celeste's log of when it left New York’s harbor on November 25th at 8:00 AM This relates to the story because it states year, date, and time the Mary celeste left and never came back.
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17. Artifact 13 Historical Fact from Story or Author’s Note
In the story it states that they brought the Mary Celeste back to sell goods from it. The only thing was that they needed a court order. The historic fact from the story is true. The facts that prove that the information in the story is true are:
According to the last entry in the ships log book, made that morning Mary Celeste was within sight of the Azones island of Santa Maria, some 500 miles from where the Dia Gratia would find it nine days later.
An island in the Azones, nearly 400 miles from where the Mary Celeste was found.
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18. Artifact 14 Other Historical Facts
•There was no sign of the captain, his family, or crew. There was nobody at the wheel or anywhere above decks.
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To learn more about the Mary Celeste:
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19. Artifact 15 Other Historical Facts
Onboard were the ship’s captain, Benjamin S. Briggs, his wife, Sarah and their 2 year old daughter, Sofia, along with eight crew members. The Mary Celeste had a shadowy past.
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20. Artifact 16 Other Historical Facts
The ship seemed ill-fated almost from the day it was launched in The Mary Celeste should have been sailing southeast, but when the crew of the Dei Gratia spotted her, she was heading the opposite direction.
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The artifact that represents the story and the time period is a boat because it represents the Mary Celeste. The artifact represents the story because it is about an abandoned ship where the crew was never found.
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22. Curator Names
Were in 5 grade Mr.s Herp’s class we are Khelsea, Addy,Destiny and we made this project. Addy likes pizza, puppies, and anything food. Destiny likes bunnies. And last but not least I like soft ball, foot ball, dogs, and pizza
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