Copy of Titanic- Scavenger Hunt 2 (6/23/2025)
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Curiousity
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Since you’ve started looking through texts and images about the Titanic, what is one thing you are curious to learn more about or to understand better?
Since you’ve started looking through texts and images about the Titanic, what is one thing you are curious to learn more about or to understand better?
Scavenger Hunt Part I
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Look closely at Molly Brown’s attire. Describe her outfit.
Look closely at Molly Brown’s attire. Describe her outfit.
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Captain Rostron was also awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor by President Taft for his role in rescuing Titanic survivors. Do you think he deserved these honors? Why or why not?
Captain Rostron was also awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor by President Taft for his role in rescuing Titanic survivors. Do you think he deserved these honors? Why or why not?
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Name three things this list tells you about Molly Brown.
Name three things this list tells you about Molly Brown.
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What class is Molly Brown: first, second, or third? __________
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Imagine that you were a third-class passenger. Write a similar list documenting the items that you might have lost. How are the two lists different?
Imagine that you were a third-class passenger. Write a similar list documenting the items that you might have lost. How are the two lists different?
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How would you describe the atmosphere on the open-air deck?
How would you describe the atmosphere on the open-air deck?
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Are the people on the deck first-class, second-class, or third-class (steerage) passengers? Support your response with evidence from the image.
Are the people on the deck first-class, second-class, or third-class (steerage) passengers? Support your response with evidence from the image.
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Imagine what a cruise might be like today. Describe the differences and similarities.
Imagine what a cruise might be like today. Describe the differences and similarities.
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Thinking about what you have learned about the Titanic disaster so far, do you think this is an accurate portrayal of events during the sinking? Why or why not?
Thinking about what you have learned about the Titanic disaster so far, do you think this is an accurate portrayal of events during the sinking? Why or why not?
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Compare this image with the Max Beckmann painting The Sinking of the Titanic. What are the similarities and differences between these two images?
Compare this image with the Max Beckmann painting The Sinking of the Titanic. What are the similarities and differences between these two images?
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What luxuries does the first-class room have that the second-class room doesn't have? What luxuries does the second-class room have that the third-class room lacks?
What luxuries does the first-class room have that the second-class room doesn't have? What luxuries does the second-class room have that the third-class room lacks?
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Look at the list of items found in some or all of the cabins. Drag the three that are found in all cabins.
_________ ________ ___________
Other Answer Choices:
Desk
Curtains
Sink
Mirror
Couch
Bed
Bunks
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Imagine you are designing a travel brochure for the Titanic. Write a caption for each of the cabins to make it sound appealing to a potential passenger.
Imagine you are designing a travel brochure for the Titanic. Write a caption for each of the cabins to make it sound appealing to a potential passenger.
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How do the comparisons in this illustration help you to understand the size of the Titanic?
How do the comparisons in this illustration help you to understand the size of the Titanic?
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Would the chart have the same impact without the illustration? Why or why not?
Would the chart have the same impact without the illustration? Why or why not?
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What in this illustration surprises you most? Explain your answer.
What in this illustration surprises you most? Explain your answer.
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Was the Titanic’s length greater than the height of the pyramids?__________
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How many hats did Molly Brown pack in her luggage for her trip to New York, and what was their total cash value?
How many hats did Molly Brown pack in her luggage for her trip to New York, and what was their total cash value?
Scavenger Hunt Part II
In this passage from a book about the sinking of the Titanic, the author describes the ship’s amenities and safety precautions—and why so many people couldn’t escape on lifeboats.
Introduction from Sinking of the “Titanic” Most Appalling Ocean Horror
Author: Jay Henry Mowbray, Ph.D., LL.D
Publisher: The Minter Company, Harrisburg, PA
Published: 1912
1 The human imagination is unequal to the reconstruction of the appalling scene of the disaster in the North Atlantic. No picture of the pen or of the painter’s brush can adequately represent the magnitude of the calamity that has made the whole world kin.
2 How trivial in such an hour seem the ordinary affairs of civilized mankind—the minor ramifications of politics, the frenetic rivalry of candidates, the haggle of stock speculators. We are suddenly, by an awful visitation, made to see our human transactions in their true perspective, as small as they really are.
3 Man’s pride is profoundly humbled: he must confess that the victory this time has gone to the blind, inexorable forces of nature, except in so far as the manifestation of the heroic virtues is concerned.
4 The ship that went to her final resting place two miles below the placid, unconfessing level of the sea represented all that science and art knew how to contribute to the expedition of traffic, to the comfort and enjoyment of voyagers.
5 She had 15 watertight steel compartments supposed to render her unsinkable. She was possessed of submarine signals with microphones, to tell the bridge by means of wires when shore or ship or any other object was at hand.
6 There was a collision bulkhead to safeguard the ship against the invasion of water amidships should the bow be torn away. In a word, the boat was as safe and sound as the shipbuilder could make it.
7 It was the pride of the owners and the commander that what has happened could not possibly occur. And yet the Titanic went down, and carried to their doom hundreds of passengers and men who intimately knew the sea and had faced every peril that the navigator meets.
8 In the hours between half-past 10 on Sunday night and half-past 2 Monday morning, while the ship still floated, what did the luxuries of their $10,000,000 castle on the ocean avail those who trod the eight steel decks, not knowing at what moment the whole glittering fabric might plunge with them—as it did plunge—to the unplumbed abyss below?
9 What was it, in those agonizing hours, to the men who remained aboard, or to the women and children placed in the boats, that there were three electric elevators, squash courts and Turkish baths, a hospital with an operating room, private promenade decks and Renaissance cabins? What is it to a man about to die to know that there is at hand a palm garden or a darkroom for photography, or the tapestry of an English castle or a dinner service of 10,000 pieces of silver and gold?
10 In that midnight crisis the one thing needful was not provided, where everything was supplied. The one inadequacy was—the lack of lifeboats.
11 In the supreme confidence of the tacit assumption that they never would be needed, the means of rescue—except in a pitiably meagre insufficiency—was not at hand. There were apparently but 20 boats and rafts available, each capable of sustaining at most 60 persons.
12 Yet the ship was built to carry 2435 passengers and 860 in the crew—a total of 3295 persons.
13 Whatever the luxuriousness of the appointments, the magnificence of the carvings and the paintings that surfeited the eye, the amplitude of the space allotted for the promenade, it seems incredible no calculation was made for the rescue of at least 2000 of the possible floating population of the Titanic.
14 The result of the tragedy must be that aroused public opinion will compel the formulation of new and drastic regulations, alike by the British Board of Trade and by the Federal authorities, providing not merely for the adequate equipment of every ship with salvatory apparatus but for rigorous periodical inspection of the appliances and a constant drill of the crew.
15 Let there be an end of boasting about the supremacy of man to the immitigable laws and forces of nature. Let the grief of mankind be assuaged not in idle lamentation but in amelioration of the conditions that brought about the saddest episode in the history of ships at sea.
16 The particular line that owned and sent forth the vessel that has perished has been no more to blame than others that similarly ignored elemental precautions in favor of superfluous comforts, in a false sense of security.
17 When the last boatload of priceless human life swung away from the davits of the Titanic, it left behind on the decks of the doomed ship hundreds of men who knew that the vessel’s mortal wound spelt Death for them also. But no cravens these men who went to their nameless graves, nor scourged as the galley slave to his dungeon.
18 Called suddenly from the ordinary pleasure of ship life and fancied security, they were in a moment confronted With the direct peril of the sea, and the absolute certainty that, while some could go to safety, many must remain.
19 It was the supreme test, for if a man lose his life he loses all. But, had the grim alternative thought to mock the cowardice of the breed, it was doomed to disappointment.
20 Silently these men stood aside. “Women first,” the inexorable law of the sea, which one disobeys only to court everlasting ignominy, undoubtedly had no place in their minds. “Women first,” the common law of humanity, born of chivalry and the nobler spirit of self-sacrifice, prevailed.
21 They simply stood aside.
22 The first blush of poignant grief will pass from those who survive and were bereft. But always will they sense in its fullest meaning this greatest of all sacrifice. Ever must it remain as a reassuring knowledge of the love, and faithfulness, and courage, of the Man, and of his care for the weak.
23 “Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friend.”
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How many people could the Titanic hold? How many people could the lifeboats hold?
How many people could the Titanic hold? How many people could the lifeboats hold?
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According to author, why did the Titanic lack the appropriate number of lifeboats?
According to author, why did the Titanic lack the appropriate number of lifeboats?
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What point is the author trying to make when he describes some of the luxuries on the ship?
What point is the author trying to make when he describes some of the luxuries on the ship?
This passage is from a book of true stories from the Titanic, published just after the ship sank in 1912. This is the story of a man who survived the disaster by changing his clothes.
Excerpt: Chapter 6—“Women and Children First!” from Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters
Editor: Logan Marshall
Publisher: L.T. Myers, Philadelphia, PA
Published: 1912 (public domain)
1 . . . THE COWARD
2 Somewhere in the shadow of the appalling Titanic disaster slinks—still living by the inexplicable grace of God—a cur in human shape, to-day the most despicable human being in all the world.
3 In that grim midnight hour, already great in history, he found himself hemmed in by the band of heroes whose watchword and countersign rang out across the deep—”Women and children first!”
4 What did he do? He scuttled to the stateroom deck, put on a woman’s skirt, a woman’s hat and a woman’s veil, and picking his crafty way back among the brave and chivalric men who guarded the rail of the doomed ship, he filched a seat in one of the life-boats and saved his skin.
5 His name is on that list of branded rescued men who were neither picked up from the sea when the ship went down nor were in the boats under orders to help get them safe away. His identity is not yet known, though it will be in good time. So foul an act as that will out like murder.
6 The eyes of strong men who have read this crowded record of golden deeds, who have read and re-read that deathless roll of honor of the dead, are still wet with tears of pity and of pride. This man still lives. Surely he was born and saved to set for men a new standard by which to measure infamy and shame.
7 It is well that there was sufficient heroism on board the Titanic to neutralize the horrors of the cowardice. When the first order was given for the men to stand back, there were a dozen or more who pushed forward and said that men would be needed to row the life-boats and that they would volunteer for the work.
8 The officers tried to pick out the ones that volunteered merely for service and to eliminate those who volunteered merely to save their own lives. This elimination process however, was not wholly successful . . .
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What selection process did the officers use to determine which men should row the lifeboats? Would you have used the same process? Explain your response.
What selection process did the officers use to determine which men should row the lifeboats? Would you have used the same process? Explain your response.
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Explain what the author means in the last paragraph when he writes about the two kinds of volunteers.
Explain what the author means in the last paragraph when he writes about the two kinds of volunteers.
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Who is the subject of this article? What claim does the author make about this man, and what kind of evidence does the author use to support his claim?
Who is the subject of this article? What claim does the author make about this man, and what kind of evidence does the author use to support his claim?
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What was “the cur in human shape” (2) hoping to achieve by changing clothing as the Titanic sank?
What was “the cur in human shape” (2) hoping to achieve by changing clothing as the Titanic sank?
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Which words describe the coward and which words describe the heroes?
Which words describe the coward and which words describe the heroes?
Describes the "coward" | Describes the "heroes" | |
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Brave | ||
Chivalric | ||
Crafty | ||
Despicable | ||
Excellent | ||
Helpful | ||
Nameless | ||
Selfish |
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Part 1: What selection process did the officers use to determine which men should row the lifeboats?
Part 1: What selection process did the officers use to determine which men should row the lifeboats?
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Part 2: How would you have chosen men to row? Explain your response.
Part 2: How would you have chosen men to row? Explain your response.
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The subtitle, “The Coward,” makes clear from the start
The subtitle, “The Coward,” makes clear from the start
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Why might the author have chosen the word “scuttled” instead of “ran” to describe the movement of the coward? Say the word “scuttled” out loud. What kind of creature do you picture when you hear it?
Why might the author have chosen the word “scuttled” instead of “ran” to describe the movement of the coward? Say the word “scuttled” out loud. What kind of creature do you picture when you hear it?
The shipbuilding company that created the Titanic, Harland & Wolff, was located in Belfast, Ireland. The people of Belfast were immensely proud to be building the largest and most luxurious ship the world had ever seen and they were equally devastated when the unsinkable ship sank.
Untitled Poem
Author: Anonymous
Read at the Titanic Memorial Dedication in Belfast, Ireland – June 1920 (public domain)
1 It was my own men who built her, the mighty ship of pride,
2 To take the seas with strength and grace, a new Atlantic bride.
3 I sat, the lusty city, snug between sea and shore,
4 And clear above my clatt’ring streets, above my workshops’ roar,
5 I listened too the iron’s clang that sang how fast she grew;
6 My own men built her, heads and hands, they built her stout and true.
7 It was my own men sent her, the greatest ship of all,
8 To fight the seas for mastery and brave the winds at call.
9 There fell a sudden silence. My busy lough at gaze
10 Held breath to watch her stir and move and glide along the ways.
11 Then loud from all my people there rose a triumph cry;
12 Their thundered praise of her and me flung challenge to the sky.
13 It was my own men built her, the fated ship of woe,
14 That fell with snapped and maiden sword before an ambushed foe.
15 I sat, the stricken city, bruised between grief and shame,
16 Until I caught a healing thought to sear my wound with flame:
17 High among all heroic souls upon the death-bound deck,
18 Those men of mine who died with her snatched honour from the wreck.
19 Those men of mine who sailed with her and share her trackless grave,
20 Send home to mend my tattered pride the glory of the brave.
21 I weep, the mother city, unshamed to all the world;
22 My own men wrought, my own men died, my flag is yet unfurled.
23 And proudly in my proudest place be set my people’s sign
24 How gain was wrested out of loss and courage still is mine.
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Who is the narrator of the poem?
Who is the narrator of the poem?
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Which lines tell of a fight? Who is the fight between?
Which lines tell of a fight? Who is the fight between?
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Line 15 reads, "I sat, the stricken city, bruised between grief and shame..." Explain what this means.
Line 15 reads, "I sat, the stricken city, bruised between grief and shame..." Explain what this means.
“MAY BE WAIFS’ MOTHER. Mme. Navratil of Nice Believes Babies Saved from Titanic Are Hers.” from The New York Times
Author: Unknown
Published: April 23, 1912 (public domain)
1 NICE, France. April 22.—It Is possible that the mystery of the identity of the two children answering to the names of Louis and Lolo, who were saved from the Titanic, may soon be cleared up. Mme. Navratil, the wife of a tailor living here, declares that she recognizes her two children in the description of the little ones.
2 She is separated from her husband, who a month ago, she says, took the children and disappeared after telling friends that he was going to America. The children were traveling with a man named Hoffman, who is said to have been a friend of Navratil’s. A request has been sent to New York for photographs of the children.
3 The two French waifs are now in the care of Miss Margaret Hayes of West Eighty-fourth Street, the self-appointed guardian of the children, one of whom is about 4 years of age, and the other 8. The children were found wrapped in a blanket in one of the Titanic’s lifeboats.
4 According to stories told by survivors a man passed the children into the boat just as it was leaving the side of ship. Officers stepped forward to prevent his taking a place in the boat, but he declared that he did not wish to go, asking that the children be taken, as their mother was waiting for them. The man may have been Hoffman, and the list of second cabin passengers included a Mr. Hoffman and two children named Hoffman. The man was not saved.
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Where were the children at the time this article was written?
Where were the children at the time this article was written?
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What was Mr. Hoffman’s relationship with the children? Did he care about them? How do you know? Use evidence from the text to explain your answer.
What was Mr. Hoffman’s relationship with the children? Did he care about them? How do you know? Use evidence from the text to explain your answer.
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This article provides limited information. What questions about the orphans does it not answer?
This article provides limited information. What questions about the orphans does it not answer?
“Rusticles on Titanic Contain New Iron-Eating Bacteria, Study Says” from Epoch Times
Author: Jack Phillips
Published: December 6, 2010
1 Rusticles, icicle-like formations made from rusting iron, on the Titanic were discovered to contain a new form of metal-eating bacteria, according to a report on Monday.
2 The newly-dubbed Halomonas titanicae were found on the formations off in the wreckage 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland. Rusticles are porous and contain a “consortium” of at least 27 microorganisms including the new bacteria, the study published in the Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology said.
3 “In 1995, I was predicting that Titanic had another 30 years,” Henrietta Mann, adjunct professor with the Department of Civil Engineering at Dalhouse University in Nova Scotia and co-author in the study, said in a statement. “But I think it’s deteriorating much faster than that now . . . Eventually there will be nothing left but a rust stain.”
4 In the study, they noted that the bacteria, in conjunction with other organisms, could potentially and slowly destroy underwater metal structures like oil pipelines. It could also provide a new way to recycle old iron.
5 “It’s a natural process, recycling the iron and returning it to nature,” she added.
6 The wreckage was discovered around 25 years ago and is located about 2 miles underneath the ocean. In the past 98 years since the 50,000-ton ship sank, it has significantly deteriorated.
7 Scientists said that they are unsure if the bacteria will pose a problem to underwater structures like oil pipelines but could provide a way to recycle old, mass quantities of iron
8 “We believe H. titanicae plays a part in the recycling of iron structures at certain depths,” Mann and other lead researcher Dr. Bhavleen Kaur jointly stated. “This could be useful in the disposal of old naval and merchant ships and oil rigs that have been cleaned of toxins and oil-based products and then sunk in the deep ocean."
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What are Halomonas titanicae and how are they affecting the sunken Titanic?
What are Halomonas titanicae and how are they affecting the sunken Titanic?
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What problem might Halomonas titanicae cause?
What problem might Halomonas titanicae cause?
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How might Halomonas titanicae be useful in recycling? Explain your answer, including two quotes from the article.
How might Halomonas titanicae be useful in recycling? Explain your answer, including two quotes from the article.
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Indicate whether the following statements are true or false, according to the text.
Indicate whether the following statements are true or false, according to the text.
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The wreckage of the Titanic is being destroyed by metal-eating bacteria known as "rusticles." | ||
So far, the wreckage has not significantly deteriorated. | ||
Experts describe the process of deterioration via rusticles as a kind of "recycling." |
Letter from the Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Workers’ Union of Great Britain and Ireland
(public domain)
The author of the letter, Ben Tillett, was a politician, member of the British socialist party, union leader, and author of three books.
1 April 18, 1912
2 RESOLVED.
3 The Executive of the Dock, Wharf, Riverside & General Workers’ Union hereby offers its sincere condolences to the bereaved relatives of the Third Class passengers of the S/S Titanic, whose tragic sinking we deplore. We also send our sincere regret to the relatives of the Crew, who were drowned. We also offer our strongest protest against the wanton and callous disregard of human life and the vicious class antagonism shown in the practical forbidding of the saving of the lives of the third-class passengers. The refusal to permit other than the first-class passengers to be saved by the boats, is in our opinion a disgrace to our common civilization.
4 We therefore call upon the Government and the Board of Trade to insist on the provision of adequate life-saving appliances in boats, rafts and belts, which shall not only provide means of safety to the passengers, but to the whole members of the ship’s staff.
5 We express our regret that in order to save time and cost, at the risk of life, shorter and quicker routes were insisted on, in spite of the knowledge of the presence of ice.
6 We trust the saving of so many first-class passengers’ lives will not deaden the solicitude of the Government for the lives of those who belong to the wage earning classes, and call upon the members of the Labour Party to force upon the Government the necessity of proper protection to the lives of all manners and all passengers, irrespective of class or grade.
7 Signed for the Executive,
8 BEN TILLETT.
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What prompted Tillett to write this letter?
What prompted Tillett to write this letter?
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According to Tillett, what decisions led to the Titanic disaster?
According to Tillett, what decisions led to the Titanic disaster?
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Why is Tillett worried that the life-saving appliances he suggests may not be provided?
Why is Tillett worried that the life-saving appliances he suggests may not be provided?
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According to Henrietta Mann, what will eventually be left of the Titanic wreckage?
According to Henrietta Mann, what will eventually be left of the Titanic wreckage?
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What is the name of the “new Atlantic bride”?
What is the name of the “new Atlantic bride”?