1. Do Now What happened on Feb. 15, 1898?
Read reproduced article about the Maine’s sinking.

2. Discuss in groups… What is the Maine?
What do you think the news article is about?
What is Alfonso XII?
In what ways could this event be a mystery?

3. A diver investigating the Maine

6. Location
Killed
Wounded
Deaths from Disease
Cuba
311
1,479
Puerto Rico 4 47
Philippines 17
115
Other
2,957
Totals
332
1,641
Total number of Americans killed in war: 3,289 Deaths from loss of USS MAINE (not included in above wartime casualties, since the MAINE sunk before a state of war existed): 260
Total loss: 3,549

7. George Preston letter

8. Create your own illustration for how you suspect the ship sank.

11. BACKGROUND INFORMATION

12. What caused the explosion of the Maine?
Spanish torpedoes, mines, Cuban attack

13. Write a play synopsis: