The Titanic Text Set A

Articles/Videos/Interactive Resources:

“Remembering the Titanic” by Natalie Smith http://www.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3757130

“Time Machine (1912): Wreck of the White Star liner Titanic” by Scientific American https://newsela.com/articles/historic-news-titanic/id/15659/

“After Ship Sank, Fierce Fight to Get Story” by James Barron https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/09/after-the-ship-went-down-scrambling- to-get-the-story/?_r=0

“Primary Sources: The Titanic, the Wireless Operator’s Story” by The New York Times https://newsela.com/articles/primary-source-titanic-telegraph/id/24902/

“The Unknown About The Unsinkable Titanic” by Gianna Pisano https://www.theodysseyonline.com/unknown-unsinkable-titanic

New CGI of How Titanic Sank – National Geographic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSGeskFzE0s

Telegram received by the Russian liner Birma (MT 9/920c) http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/life-aboard-titanic/source-5/

Why and How the Titanic Sank infographic https://www.livescience.com/19611-titanic-sinking-anniversary.html

Titanic: Not Unsinkable After All http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/worldhistory/titanic_sinking.htm

Demographics of the Titanic Passengers: Deaths, Survivals, Nationality, and Lifeboat Occupancy http://www.icyousee.org/titanic.html

“The Man Who Found the Titanic: A Tale of a Secret Expedition” by Andrew Carter http://www.thedailybeast.com/the-man-who-found-the-titanic-a-tale-of-a- secret-expedition

May be photocopied for classroom use. © 2017 by Lucy Calkins and Colleagues from the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project from Units of Study for Teaching Reading, Grades 6-8 (Heinemann: Portsmouth, NH).

“Sinking the Titanic ‘women and children first’ myth” by Alison George https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22119-sinking-the-titanic-women-and- children-first-myth/

Titanic photographs http://nmni.com/titanic/Home/Photo-Galleries/Titanic.aspx

“Third Class Life on the Titanic” by Diana Leagh Matthews https://alookthrutime.wordpress.com/2012/04/13/third-class-life-on-the-titanic/

“Second Class Life on the Titanic” by Diana Leagh Matthews https://alookthrutime.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/second-class-life-on-the-titanic/

“First Class Life on the Titanic” by Diana Leagh Matthews https://alookthrutime.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/first-class-life-on-the-titanic/

“The North faces a Titanic challenge as melting ice lures more luxury liners” by Suzanne Goldenberg https://newsela.com/articles/arctic-cruise/id/16233/

The Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/titanic.htm

“Kids were onboard the Titanic, too” by Marylou Tousignant https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/kids-were-onboard-the-titanic- too/2012/04/12/gIQANwAhFT_story.html?utm_term=.2d295bcf24ef

Titanic: ‘Iceberg Right Ahead’ http://www.ultimatetitanic.com/the-sinking/#.WXaGx7GZM6u

Titanic: Passengers Famously Separated by Class http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/worldhistory/titanic_passengers.htm

Titanic: Captain Went Down with the Ship http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/worldhistory/titanic_captain.htm

Titanic: Ship Historic Before It Sailed http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/worldhistory/titanic_ship.htm

Titanic: Still Capturing the Popular Imagination http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/worldhistory/titanic_culture.htm

“Revealing the Titanic’s Secrets” by Claire Suddath http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1846210,00.html

Finding the Titanic: How did science help explorers find the Titanic? http://www.planet-science.com/categories/over-11s/technology/2012/04/finding-the- titanic.aspx

“The Extraordinary Story of the White Star Liner Titanic” by William Henry Flayhart III https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-extraordinary-story-of-the-titanic/

Titanic: Building the largest moving object in history http://www.ultimatetitanic.com/construction/#.WXaHNrGZM6t

Titanic: As Told By the Survivors http://www.ultimatetitanic.com/the-survivors/#.WXaHXbGZM6t

The Washington Herald, January 23, 1910, Second Part, Image 14 http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045433/1910-01-23/ed-1/seq-14/

“The Real Story Behind the Discovery of Titanic’s Watery Grave” by Evan Andrews http://www.history.com/news/titanics-watery-grave-located

“The Titanic Discovery” by Kate Abbott http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2015271,00.html

“When Was the Titanic Found?” by Jennifer L. Goss https://www.thoughtco.com/discovery-of-the-titanic-shipwreck-1779397

“Wreckage of Titanic Reported Discovered 12,000 Feet Down” by William J. Broad http://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/03/science/wreckage-of-titanic-reported- discovered-12000-feet-down.html?pagewanted=all

Finding the Titanic http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/alien-deep/videos/finding-the-titanic/

Trade Books:

The Titanic Sinks! by Thomas Conklin (Random House)

The Titanic Disaster by Peter Benoit (Scholastic)

Titanic: Young Survivors by Allan Zullo (Scholastic)

Titanic: A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #17: Tonight on the Titanic by Mary Pope Osborn (Random House)

Titanic by Melissa Stewart (National Geographic)

Finding the Titanic by Robert D. Ballard (Scholastic)

Titanic: Voices From the Disaster by Deborah Hopkinson (Scholastic)

What Was the Titanic? by Stephanie Sabol (Penguin)

*Access to even a small number of trade books on the topic will dramatically increase students’ reading volume during Bends II and III.