Show:
"A Night to Remember"
"Titanic at 100: Mystery Solved"
"Mammoth Shakes and Monster Waves"
"After the Hurricane" and "Watcher"
Academic Vocabulary
100
These words help the reader determine the meaning of "crow's-nest" in the following excerpt: "High in the crow's-nest of the new White Star Liner Titanic, Lookout Frederick Fleet peered into a dazzling night."
What are high, Lookout, and peered?
100
A fact-based film that tells about real-life people, places, and events.
What is a documentary?
100
Understanding technical language is necessary for comprehension of this text. This excerpt, "a big chunk of earth," helps explain.
What is the meaning of plate?
100
The author's choice of words in this excerpt "I still want to smash a camera,/break a lens, make them stop shooting." illustrate this about the tone.
What is the speaker is angry?
100
To cause hurt or damage.
What is injure?
200
This excerpt has an example of this type of literary device: "The Atlantic was like polished plate glass; people later said they had never seen it so smooth.
What is figurative language (simile, imagery)?
200
The narrator describes events that happened after the Titanic hit the iceberg and summarizes key discoveries and important points in the documentary.
What is voice-over narration?
200
To help readers picture that the tsunami was so powerful, the author states "longboats were bobbing up and down like toys in a bathtub." Name this type of figurative language.
What is a simile?
200
Both poems illustrate the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina using different poetic forms contributing to the delivery of the message. Identify the poetic structure of each.
What are free verse and traditional forms?
200
Something striking against another; also, the effect or impression of one thing on another.
What is impact?
300
The author introduces this event here: "The passengers in their cabins felt the jar too, and tried to connect it with something familiar."
What is the moment the Titanic hit the iceberg?
300
These are the features filmmakers may use to present a variety of information in documentary.
What are voice-over narration, interviews, animation, footage, and primary sources?
300
The author uses this type of text structure to help present complicated information and help readers understand it.
What is cause-and-effect organization?
300
The author uses this literary device of repetition of consonant sounds to direct attention to certain words. Such as "sat on the stoop."
What is alliteration?
300
Meaningful; important.
What is significant?
400
"A Night to Remember" reads like a fictional story except for the addition of real-life accounts the author chooses to use that are personal, sometimes humorous, and full of sensory details.
What is narrative nonfiction?
400
The animation, the strongest feature in the documentary, presented an idea in the documentary that differs from the ideas in the text.
What is it showed how the Titanic sank and broke apart?
400
"Because, along with several other boats, they followed the dolphins to deep water, they were spared the smashing blow of the tsunami." Identify the signal word that illustrates a cause-and-effect relationship.
What is the author's use of the word "because?"
400
The author employs the use of this device to stress the speaker's disbelief of what is happening around her in the following lines: "If toilets flushed,/ if babies slept, if faucets ran,/ old bodies didn't die in the sun,/ if none of it were real,/ if we weren't in it,"
What is repetition?
400
A condition or fact that affects an event.
What is circumstance?
500
In "A Night to Remember", the author describes the Titanic as "the most glamorous ship in the world," adding that "Even the passengers' dogs were glamorous." The careful details, precise choice of words, and slightly humorous tone help make up this.
What is author's style?
500
**********Daily Double****************** Using information from different features in the film, as well as from "A Night to Remember," to reach a deeper understanding of the night the Titanic sank.
What is integrate information?
500
The author integrates this type of media with the text to give a more complete explanation of how gigantic and powerful the tsunami was.
What is a diagram?
500
Identify the words that contribute to the speaker's feeling of helplessness in the excerpt "We're herded. Domed in,/ feels like for good"
What is herded and domed in?
500
Something or someone that limits or restricts another's actions.
What is constraint?