Titanic - C. Waters & K. Koppel

CYNTHIA WATERS AND KERRIANN KOPPEL

New York State Learning Standards:

• ELA Standard 1: Students will listen, speak, read, and write for information and understanding.
• ELA Standard 2: Students will read and listen to oral, written, and electronically produced texts and performances from American and world literature.
• MST Standard 5: Students will apply technological knowledge and skills to design, construct, use, and evaluate products and systems to satisfy human and environmental needs.

Objectives: Students will be able to

• Use non-fiction texts to research factual information and details related to the Titanic (the background, building of the ship, passengers and crew, differences between classes, and sinking of the Titanic).
• Narrate a video montage using the program Windows Movie Maker.

Procedure / Activity:

• Teacher will gather pictures related to the Titanic (the background, building of the ship, passengers and crew, differences between classes, and sinking of the Titanic) and create a video montage using the program Windows Movie Maker.
• Students will read the non-fiction text Magic Tree House Research Guide: Titanic while completing an SQ3R guide. They will gather factual information about the topic and record details on the chart.
• After reading the text, students will individually be assigned a few pictures from the video montage to record a description of the picture(s). They will then narrate their writing using Windows Movie Maker.

Assessment:

• The teacher will assess the students' knowledge of the Titanic for accuracy based on their descriptions of the pictures.
• Students will also write a 3-entry journal using the information they learned from the text and the class movie. The journal will be a first-person telling of what it was like to sail on the Titanic.