Who Sank the Boat? (Paperstar)

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Despite later myth, featured for example in the 1997 film Titanic, the ship Titanic was not attempting to set a transatlantic speed record; the White Star Line had made a conscious decision not to compete with their rivals Cunard on speed, but instead to focus on size and luxury. [27] animals decided to go out for a row in the bay one day: a cow, a donkey, a knitting sheep, a pig with an umbrella, and a tiny mouse. One by one, they jumped / dived / stepped into the boat, and we are asked to predict “who sank the boat”. Spoiler alert: the boat sank when the final and tiniest animal jumped in and held onto the oar. The mouse was the only one that stayed dry in the end. By 01:30, Titanic 's downward angle was increasing, but not more than 5 degrees, with an increasing list to port. The deteriorating situation was reflected in the tone of the messages sent from the ship: "We are putting the women off in the boats" at 01:25, "Engine room getting flooded" at 01:35, and at 01:45, "Engine room full up to boilers." [133] This was Titanic 's last intelligible signal, sent as the ship's electrical system began to fail; subsequent messages were jumbled and unintelligible. The two radio operators nonetheless continued sending out distress messages almost to the very end. [134] You will need a large tub of water and a collection of different objects of various sizes and shapes that float and sink such as a cork, eraser, plasticine ball, marble, tennis ball. Have students sort the items into two piles: those that float and those that sink. Take a photo of their predictions.

Did you know that most of the popular TV shows and movies are based on books? So why not indulge in the original form of entertainment by immersing yourself in reading. Most importantly, it’s free with your Markham Public Library card. a b c Gleicher, David. (2002). The Break-up of the Titanic: Viewpoints and Evidence. Encyclopedia Titanica.Ballard, Robert D. (1987). The Discovery of the Titanic . New York: Warner Books. ISBN 978-0-446-51385-2. First, start with a book cover inspection. Show children the cover of the book, and ask, “what do you think this book is about?” Follow this with some open ended questions to get their minds warmed up. From the time of the collision to the moment of her sinking, at least 35,000 long tons (36,000t) of water flooded into Titanic, causing her displacement to nearly double from 48,300 long tons (49,100t) to over 83,000 long tons (84,000t). [69] The flooding did not proceed at a constant pace, nor was it distributed evenly throughout the ship, due to the configuration of the flooded compartments. Her initial list to starboard was caused by asymmetrical flooding of the starboard side as water poured down a passageway at the bottom of the ship. [70] When the passageway was fully flooded, the list corrected itself but the ship later began to list to port by up to ten degrees as that side also flooded asymmetrically. [71] Have students create a Venn diagram of the things that are the same and the things that are different in the beginning picture compared to the ending picture.

Who Sank the Boat" won the Gaelyn Gordon Award in 2001, an annual award for a work of fiction by a living author, that is still in print, and is "generally recongnised as a successful, enduring children's book". Pamela Allen herself received the Margaret Mahy Award in 2004 as "a person who has made a significant contribution to the broad field of children's literature and literacy". Richards, Jeffrey (2001). Imperialism and Music: Britain, 1876–1953. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-6143-1. Robbins, William (18 April 1982). "SCREAMS, THEN SEA'S SILENCE, STILL HAUNT 5 SURVIVORS OF TITANIC". The New York Times . Retrieved 25 August 2022. In the aftermath of the sinking, public inquiries were set up in Britain and the United States. The US inquiry began on 19 April under the chairmanship of Senator William Alden Smith, [227] and the British inquiry commenced in London under Lord Mersey on 2 May 1912. [228] They reached broadly similar conclusions: the regulations on the number of lifeboats that ships had to carry were out of date and inadequate; [229] Captain Smith had failed to take proper heed of ice warnings; [230] the lifeboats had not been properly filled or crewed; and the collision was the direct result of steaming into a danger area at too high a speed. [229] Both inquiries strongly criticised Captain Lord of Californian for failing to render assistance to Titanic. [231] As a class explore and identify the beginning, complication and ending of a range of texts familiar to the class. Alternatively use some other Pamela Allen titles. Develop the understanding that many narratives have the same structure.

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Steve Smith, the chief executive of Care4Calais, said: “Two years on from the largest loss of life in the Channel in decades, no one has taken responsibility for the failure of UK authorities to respond to the desperate calls for help from those on board this tragic boat.

After reading the book, demonstrate how the scale/balance is used. Use the weighted objects to determine which object is the heaviest, which object is the lightest and which objects weigh the same. Two battleships – King George V and Rodney – and three cruisers led the charge to finish off the wounded beast, spurred on by the Commander-in-Chief of the Home Fleet, Admiral John Tovey:Zumdahl, Steven S.; Zumdahl, Susan A. (2008). Chemistry. Belmont, CA: Cengage Learning. ISBN 978-0-547-12532-9. Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, recalled after the disaster that "the very last cry was that of a man who had been calling loudly: 'My God! My God!' He cried monotonously, in a dull, hopeless way. For an entire hour, there had been an awful chorus of shrieks, gradually dying into a hopeless moan, until this last cry that I speak of. Then all was silent." [201] For some survivors, the dead silence that followed was worse even than the cries for help. [202] Lowe and his crew found four men still alive, one of whom died shortly afterwards. Otherwise, all they could see were "hundreds of bodies and lifebelts"; the dead "seemed as if they had perished with the cold as their limbs were all cramped up". [199] Although the watertight bulkheads extended well above the water line, they were not sealed at the top. If too many compartments were flooded, the ship's bow would settle deeper in the water, and water would spill from one compartment to the next in sequence, rather like water spilling across the top of an ice cube tray. This is what happened to Titanic, which had suffered damage to the forepeak tank, the three forward holds, No.6 boiler room, and a small section of No.5 boiler room – a total of six compartments. Titanic was only designed to float with any two compartments flooded, but she could remain afloat with certain combinations of three or even four compartments–the first four–open to the ocean. With five or more compartments breached, however, the tops of the bulkheads would be submerged and the ship would continue to flood. [62] [63] Titanic sank in two hours and 40 minutes. As a class create a table showing the beginning, complication and ending of 3 or 4 of these stories to highlight the typical structure of a narrative. Books are always filled with fun and interesting facts. Whether you read fiction or non-fictions, books have the ability to provide us with information we would’ve otherwise not known. Reading a variety of topics can make you a more knowledgeable person, in turn improving your conversation skills.