Would you choose to be lost at sea in a rubber raft with a flare gun or to be stuck on a deserted island? Why? Use evidence from your research to support your answer.

Directions:

1. Read the articles you were provided. Use a highlighter, if you’d like, to highlight important facts.
2. You may record your information in a Google Doc on your computer. Make sure to record the name of the website, so you can use it in your writing! These are in green below.
3. Make a T-chart in your ELA notebook in the Writing Journal section.

Lost at Sea Websites

How to Survive at Sea: http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/survive-at-sea1.htm

Ultimate Survival Guide: http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/11/sport/ultimate-survival-guide/index.html

Three Tips for Survival at Sea: http://www.boats.com/how-to/three-tips-for-survival-at-sea/#.WcETksh94dU

Lost at Sea Survival Tricks: http://www.popsci.com/article/technology/lost-sea-survive-these-tricks

Deserted Island Website

Wilderness Survival: http://www.wilderness-survival.net/danger-1.php

Survive Nature: http://www.survivenature.com/island.php

How to Survive a Desert Island: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/How-to-survive-on-a-desert-island/

Know, Prepare, Survive: https://knowpreparesurvive.com/survival/stranded-how-to-survive-on-a-deserted-island/

• Click on each video and fill in the three categories on your sheet: Background Knowledge (What do you already know?), Video Clues (what’s happening in the video clip), and Inference.
• Make sure each inference begins with either “I think…”, “I infer…”, or “Perhaps”.
• Punctuation and Capitalization will be graded! 🙂

Video 1: What inference can you make about Merida (the red-headed girl)? https://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=125IAf4IBmY

Video 2: What inference can you make about the man with blonde hair? https://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=a7arGFUT0uU

Video 3: What inference can you make about the kind of person Maui (the man) is? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79DijItQXMM

Picture 4: Look at the picture below. What can you infer about the lollipop?

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The Civil War begins!

Take a virtual tour of Fort Sumter:

http://edtech2.boisestate.edu/kelseyramirez/502/virtualtour/fortsumter.html

Look at this gallery of pictures from the first battle of the Civil War:

https://www.civilwar.org/learn/galleries/fort-sumter

Answer these questions in your class’s Google Classroom.

http://www.classroom.google.com

Miller’s Code: hgvviuu

Cook’s Code: uj3rjs

Let’s discover more about America’s Civil War! Click on the link below to get to some fun games. These can only be played on laptops or desktops. They will not work on Smart phones. Tablets are questionable.

Have fun!

http://civilwar.mrdonn.org/games.html

Love, Mrs. Miller

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