Monday, April 25

Objective: Students will complete a series of blog posts pretending to be a person who died/survived aboard the Titanic or a person who died/survived the climb to Mt. Everest.

Journal: If you had been aboard the Titanic, would you have given up your seat on a lifeboat to save someone who you cared about?  Explain why or why not.  What would you have been willing to do in order to survive the ship's sinking?  What would you have done to help others?  Explain.

Agenda: 1) Introduce new SAT vocabulary words: wary, transient, surreptitious, superficial, subtle, submissive, sagacity, rancorous, querulous, precocious, ostentatious, mundane, intuitive, frugal, enervating

2) Survivor/Victim Blog: You will choose to be either a survivor or victim of the Titanic tragedy or a survivor/victim of the climbing of Mt. Everest.  You will create a blog on Blogspot.com which you will post on as the survivor/victim.  You will be required to write three posts about your trip aboard the Titanic using details from the “RMS: Titanic” story or your climb of Mt. Everest using details from “Into Thin Air."  Your blog posts should total 20-30 complete sentences and should be written to sound as realistic as possible.  When you are finished, e-mail Ms. Winberg a link to your blog @ TeacherWinberg@gmail.com.

Homework: Chart first FIVE vocabulary words: wary, transient, surreptitious, superficial, subtle