Monday, February 9, 2015

Hindenburg's Hydrogen Inferno

Hindenburg

Students will use an anticipation guide before reading.
  • Before reading is used to activate students' prior knowledge and sets a purpose for reading.
  • After reading student's can revisit their understanding of the subject matter.

The Middle School RTI Group is reading a chapter from the book True Survival Stories
Hindenburg's Hydrogen Inferno pages 26-27, 28-30.
 

The T-Chart will used to review the Hindenburg story. Example: But even the Hindenburg had potentially fatal flaws, p. 31
The author's purpose here is to insert words like "potentially fatal flaws" to be used as clues that something is about to happen!


CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.6.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings.

Pairing the story with Discovery Hindenburg Video and Scholastic's readers theater (11 Characters)
Hindenburg Disaster Real Footage
January 12, 2015 Issue

CoreSkillsToolkit2.pdf
After you read the Hindenburg use the chart to 
describe the event.

FacesoftheHindenburg


We will identify the following vocabulary as we read.  Your job will be to define and use a dictionary or other on-line sources.

Hindenburg p.26
Hydrogen gas p. 26
Transatlantic p. 27
Vulnerable p. 29
Safety p. 31
Stable p. 31
Onlookers p. 32
Wits p. 36

Vocabulary: Place the words on the parking lot and give a hint. eg. Definition: "Was the most flying machine ever built." Place a car on the word for this definition. (Hindenburg)
Template     Down load as a pdf                 


























Hindenburg Mythbusters Video 4:43
Scientifically tested
1. Fire
2. Fire with Hydrogen
Two Eagles Has Landed

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.3
Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.
If this were non-fiction response, it would have . . .
Hint:  C______________,
Lit_Circles/Luminary.pdf
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.6.5
Analyze how a particular sentence, paragraph, chapter, or section fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the ideas.











Non-Fiction Response pdf


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