Is Survival Selfish?

True or False. Ismay died helping women and children survivors from the Titanic.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

What was the controversy surrounding Ismay?

• he died helping people

• he climbed into a lifeboat even though there were still women and children on board

• he assaulted a person to get into the lifeboat

• he pretended to be disabled to get a spot on the lifeboat

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

True or false. Ismay said he only climbed into a lifeboat after there were no women and children left and the boat was ready to be released.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What "protocol" was strong about 100 years ago?

• "Save someone's life"

• "Save yourself first"

• "Women and children first"

• "Every man for themself"

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

True or false. We tend to praise people “who risk or sacrifice themselves to save others in moments of danger or crisis.”

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is an “instinct”?

• hunger

• sleeping

• self-preservation

• sharing friends

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What was “the one thing” that would increase everyone’s chances of survival?

• running to help people

• calling 911

• staying still and not moving

• moving away from the area

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

True or False. It is easy to predict ahead of time who’s going to hold it together, and who’s going to fall apart.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

The next story of survival was -

• flight attendant in a plane crash

• a train derailment

• a car crash

• a pedestrian hit by a bus

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

True or false. The person in the next survival story said people were frozen or screaming.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10