1. Do you think a tragic event can change your view on life? 2. Have you ever experienced something that changed your outlook?
Understand
1. Match the people with their profiles. Florence Ismay Charlotte Collyer Eva Hart
Laura Mabel Francatelli Elizabeth Shutes Lawrence Beesley
31-year-old second-class passenger Secretary from London Science professor
Seven-year-old second-class passenger Wife of the chairman of White Star Lines Governess
2. How many people survived the tragedy? 3. What was the name of the ship that picked up survivors a few hours later?
Explore
1. Do you think Florence Ismay had a point when she said ‘We have both been spared to each other, let us try to make our lives of use in the world’? Explain your answer.
3 2. What kind of person is Eva Hart, in your opinion? Give reasons for your answer. Investigate
Ask a classmate, teacher, parent or guardian to tell you about an event they experienced first-hand. Record what they say to create an eyewitness account of the event.
Create
1. Write an article about the event you were told about in the Investigate task above. Make sure to include some direct quotations from the first-hand account you were given.
2. Imagine you are one of the six people whose eyewitness accounts are given in this article. Write a diary entry from their perspective, written after the events that they have detailed in their eyewitness account took place.
3. Write the script of a radio interview with a Titanic survivor for a programme entitled The History Hour. You can use one of the people mentioned above or you can come up with your own.
