Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze a primary source form the Titanic and compare to secondary source in order to improve reading comprehensive skills of informational text.
DO NOW
Why are the events of the Titanic IRONIC? (the opposite happens of what you expect)
Direct Instruction
1. The ship was deemed unsinkable because of its many watertight compartments
2. They had received adequate warning about the icebergs
3. They had room to save 400 more people on lifeboats easily but did not.
Read - From a Lifeboat - pages 194-195 in soft holt reader.
view primary source
Guided / Independent
Review Multiple choice questions and use Venn Diagram on page 196 to compare primary and secondary sources that we just read.
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