The Titanic

Read about The Titanic with some 2nders yesterday.  We were doing a lesson on "asking important questions."  It was hard to get the kiddos to focus their questions on the text because they were fairly absorbed in the loss of life involved. We got comments like Are the dead bodies still in the boat?  Did the souls escape and are the souls traveling around in the sea? Are the people sad that they died on the boat? Do the people who died wish they hadn't gone on The Titanic?  Stuff like that.  All valid, and probably even important, but not tightly connected to the text about the 3 scientists who descended 2.5 miles to the boat in a nifty little submarine.  That's okay. It was fun at the end because we did a quick write, answering one of our questions.  Then we all sat in a circle.  Teachers have microphones this year, so I passed around the mike to the readers.  The 2nders were thrilled to be using the mike and that was fun to see.