Wednesday, 17 April 2013

Literacy homework 18.4.13- The Titanic

Your homework this week is to write an emotive description as if you witnessed the Titanic disaster!!! You may write your thoughts from the point of view of one of the following...
 
*Iceberg
*Captain Smith
*Charles Lightoller (Second officer)
*Sam Collins (Fireman)
*A sea creature
*Frederick Fleet (the lookout)
*A child
 
Think about where you were at the time of the disaster...
Were you sleeping? On the deck? Having your dinner? Working? Playing games?
 
What did you see? How did you feel? What did you do? How did you react? What could you smell?
 
We look forward to reading your accounts and sharing them in class

35 comments:

  1. Its really a good homework i really are going to enjoy the homework i have put a video on fronter everyone one you re free to look!

    Happy blogging everyone!

    Jacob Elsdon

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  2. I felt very scared.the ship sank and every one was crying.I was eating dinner with my family when the ship crashed.every thing wobbled and jumping my dinner fell on the floo my dad went to see what happened,when he returned he said we have to leave the ship.me,my mum and dad where put on a little boat with people crying and screaming. I was really coad and was crying beause the ship was going down.It was a disaste.there was a point where it became dark.

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    1. Well done great word choices to describe what it might have been like on the Titanic. Please add your first name to this post so we know who wrote it.

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  3. I am a chide eating my diner on the deck suddly a big white iceberg came smashing in to the titanic boat my first thought was to go and get my mum while she was a sleep erone was running around going caoos

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    1. A good description, add your first name to this post please. Well done

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  4. I (Captain Smith) was playing with my computer. Suddenly Frederick warned me that the iceberg was ahead of the titanic.I got frightened and angry at iceberg as it was real. i told Frederick to tell Robert Hitchins to turn the wheel to the left. I walked to every cabin and told the to get ready because the iceberg was ahead of the titanic. the people was in panic after i told them that. without warning there was a crash. I got panic-stricken but without me telling anyone life boats were ready and jackets got passed on to every-one. some were saved but while others were not there was no time left but there was there was a lot of time to die...

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    1. Well done Mehul I really enjoyed reading your description. Do you think computers were invented at the time of the Titanic?

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  5. I am a sea creature.

    While I was playing games I saw a huge ship coming to wards my home I have never seen such a huge ship in ,my live. I swam as fast as I cod to tell my mum and dad my mum said that there is a iceberg in the ships way and that the ship can crush in to the iceberg. After having dinner my dad tried telling the people that where sailing on the huge ship but the people did not listen to dad then I asked my parents what is the big ship called mum said the ship is called Titanic. By Elina

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    1. good but did not quite get it. :)

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  6. Well done Elina a very enjoyable description from the perspective of a sea creature.

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  7. I felt very scared.the ship sank and every one was crying.I was eating dinner with my family when the ship crashed.every thing wobbled and jumping my dinner fell on the fool.my dad went to see what happened,when he returned he said we have to leave the ship.me,my mum and dad where put on a little boat with people crying and screaming.I was really coad and was crying beause the ship was going down.It was a disaste.there was a point where it become dark.
    kusenthini.

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  8. I am a child

    I was just walking to have dinner and the captain started to shout that there is a iceberg.I did't know what to do
    I was frightened.then I lost my mum and dad !!! ! it was chaos ! Everyone was running out of the ship jumping into lifeboats.I jumped into on as well I was saved but not my parents someone said to me that my parents
    are dead, they sunk into the sea with the titanic! I cried! What will happen to me!


    Sophieya Thirugnanasampanthan (Y3CH)



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    1. I remember that! I will never forget it.

      By Sophieya

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    2. Now in Y5 looking at Y3 work so amazed :):)

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  9. A great account good description Sophieya

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  10. I am a child....

    I was eating my dinner when I heard Charles Lightoller's frantic screams, 'ice,ice'! No one knew what was happening until we heard the shouts 'iceberg'! The ship began to rock and shake. I was very scared. There was such a mad rush to the lifeboats that I was taken aback. Then I realised that there were not enough lifeboats for everyone! I thought I would die!
    I couldn't believe it when I saw some people refusing to get off the ship! Some of them were brave who wanted others to get into the lifeboats and others thought that the ship was unsinkable!

    Avi

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    1. Super emotive writing Avi, I really enjoyed reading this.

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  11. i was on the ship playing when i heard everyone screaming iceburg iceburg, i run over to my mum and dad and said that i was scraed then i felt a big bang. my mum said that the ship had hit an iceburg and was sinking, i see lots of people running around the ship screaming trying to fit on one of the life boat with my family. i could see people falling off the ship into the very cold water and was scared. me and my family was one of the lucky ones to get saved from the ship and got on the life boat.

    by Faye Harper 3CH

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    1. Well done Faye a great description of what it might have been like when the Titanic sank. Remember to add speech marks around words spoken.

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  12. while i was sleeping at night we didn't know that there was a ice berg around as soon as it got closer we noticed it was to late i was petrified the titanic ship sunk we had to go to the life boat we hurried to the life boat.By Joshua Elamparithi

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  13. Well done Joshua a good start to using emotive writing. Could you add some more detail. Where were you sleeping? What did the iceberg look like? How did people react? What thought crossed your mind?

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  14. I am a child.
    I was in the my cabin playing snakes and ladders but suddenly I felt a huge bump at the bottom of the ship and I fell off my chair. At first I thought it was just a big wave but then I noticed that water was leaking into the ship and the floor was ripped by a giant iceberg. So I ran away out of the cabin and and quickly ran up the stairs and quickly I grabbed my tape knife and quickly cut the rope that was holding the lifeboat then I ran back downstairs and told my mum and dad that the ship was sinking.so we ran back up the stairs and jumped into the life boat and sailed away.

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  15. This is great Mikael a fantastic description, great word choices and sentences. Well done!

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  16. hello,everyone,i m Charles Lightoller,the second officer of RMS TITANIC.i got a lot of years work in every ships and Brithish Maritim.i see the oceans,the seas...im now in the most luxury sheps in the world,white star line...i have my diner and changs the shift,walk in the side of the ship,i said hello for my coleague what they watch the ocean up in the watching room,i feel i m down,something came in my eyes,my face,verry could,frezing,,,its was the ice berg..everything it is lost,imposible to describe,,torn the ship,is to late,,,we smashed...,,everione scream..we are lost..i tray to help people,but by accident,,i fel in the wather.BY Teo 3CH

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    1. Well done Teo a great description super word choices. Remember to start you sentences with a capital letter.

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  17. Child ......

    When my dad and mum were sleeping and I was playing on my 3DS XL,the Titanic wobbled and was sinking I tried to call my mum and dad up but they did not get up so I sprinkled some water on them till they got up when they did I grabbed them and all 3 of us jumped onto the lifeboat while the other people were jumping onto other lifeboats too,all of us were saved!!!!!! it was very frightening for all of us and we thought we will not make it to the lifeboats but Captain Smith was very helpful and helped everyone to go off the ship.... I always remember Captain Smith as an angel who saved all of us.

    But I always keep thinking... "what would have happened to Captain Smith?"

    "Did he make it to a lifeboat?"........


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    1. A good description of how you might have reacted on the night the titanic sank. Did the 3DS XL exist back then?

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    2. No miss.Cheek I was just imagining :)

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  18. Mrs Cheek, some of these descriptions are so fantastic I think they need to be displayed somewhere!!!

    Well done 3Ch!

    Miss Alexander

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  19. I am a child,
    When I was playing games with my family, the titanic wobbled and all of the things wobbled when I heard Frederick Fleet shouting "iceberg, iceberg!!!". Me and my family rushed out and saw the gigantic iceberg in front of us. The iceberg was white and shiny like a diamond and it was enormous. I knew the ship would sink because I saw the Titanic collide with the iceberg and made a big hole. I was terrified and I wanted to go on a lifeboat and my family felt the same. There was 1 lifeboat left and we got on the the lifeboat but where is Captain Smith? I was wondering where he was but he is still on the ship and sinking. This had never happened to me but I am still worried about the other people who now are sinking.....

    By Fariha Chowdhury(Y3CH):)

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    1. Fariha this is a great descriptive piece of writing, I loved reading it and could imagine the scene. Well done

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  20. I agree with Miss Alexander. I was very impressed reading these descriptions.

    Well done to all of you.

    Mr Cheek
    Governor

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  21. Wow! Nearly all of those storyies make me sad. Some of them make me cry! I am pleased with the homework 3CH has done. I agree with Miss Cheek and Miss Alexander.
    Jaime.

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