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Titanic vs. Lusitania: How People Behave in a Disaster
Jeffrey Kluger
COMPREHENSION CHECK
DIRECTIONS:
Complete the following items after you finish your first read.
1.
What do the researchers compare in their study?
2.
Can you give one reason why the reference group was most likely to die?
3.
What group was most likely to survive on the Titanic?
4.
What single factor made the biggest difference between the survival rates of similar
demographics on board the two ships?
5. Notebook:
Confirm your understanding of the text by writing a brief summary.
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RESEARCH
Research to Clarify Choose at
least one unfamiliar detail from the text. Briefly
research that detail. In what way does the information you learned shed light on
an aspect of the story?
Research to Explore Choose something from
the text that interests you and
formulate a research question.
ANALYZE THE TEXT
DIRECTIONS:
Respond to these questions. Use textual evidence to support your
responses.
1.
(a) Interpret: What does Kruger mean by the “primal push-pull”? (b) Compare and
Contrast: On which ship is the primal side of this push-pull relationship more
evident? Explain how it was evident.
Summarize the main differences between the survival profiles of the
passengers on the Titanic and the Lusitania, and the key factors that contributed to
their chances of survival.
2. Summarize:
The text explains why certain groups on each ship were more likely to
survive than others, but in the end almost the same number of people died, that
number very similar in proportion to the total number of passengers. What, then, is
the key difference between the disasters?
3. Analyze:
What does it take to survive? What have you learned about the
nature of survival by reading this text?
4. Essential Question:
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