Firsthand History- Monday- 1st period
Today the class was most definitely in the Danger Shop, where they were on the deck of a cruise ship, with people in early 1900's garb around.
"Welcome to the Titanic," Kitty began. "You've probably heard of it. This ship is currently on its maiden voyage, between Southampton and New York, and at the very end of today, it's going to hit an iceberg and take two hours and forty minutes to sink. This ship was considered unsinkable, and no one was prepared for any real emergency. There weren't enough lifeboats, and they weren't filled when they were sent out, stranding a lot of people on the sinking ship. There are also some major class issues, seeing as how the people in steerage had been basically left to fend for themselves while the lower decks flooded. Distress calls were either ignored, or other ships were too far away to help. By the time rescue came, after the ship was done, somewhere over seven hundred people had survived.
"You're in the Danger Shop now, so you're not going to be hanging around actual doomed people," Kitty assured them. "But I want you to wander around, see what things were like before everything was terrible, and just take it in."
"Welcome to the Titanic," Kitty began. "You've probably heard of it. This ship is currently on its maiden voyage, between Southampton and New York, and at the very end of today, it's going to hit an iceberg and take two hours and forty minutes to sink. This ship was considered unsinkable, and no one was prepared for any real emergency. There weren't enough lifeboats, and they weren't filled when they were sent out, stranding a lot of people on the sinking ship. There are also some major class issues, seeing as how the people in steerage had been basically left to fend for themselves while the lower decks flooded. Distress calls were either ignored, or other ships were too far away to help. By the time rescue came, after the ship was done, somewhere over seven hundred people had survived.
"You're in the Danger Shop now, so you're not going to be hanging around actual doomed people," Kitty assured them. "But I want you to wander around, see what things were like before everything was terrible, and just take it in."