Social Classes On the Titanic - Interview Social Classes Task - and Titanic Reading Comprehension

**What was it really like onboard the Titanic? **

Discover with this resource pack what it was really like onboard the Titanic.

The pack includes:

1. Reading Comprehension: a full article about the different areas, social classes, life before the voyage, life onboard the Titanic, social contrasts. The Reading Comprehension also includes a differentiated version for LPA students. There are double-sided PDFs and single-sided PDF of the article too.
2. Reading Task Worksheet: this accompanies the reading comprehension. Students read the article again and scans the text for information about each of the classes onboard the Titanic. There is a PDF and an editable Word version.
3. Voices from the Titanic: An Interview Across Classes. This task gets students to take on one of three characters who resided onboard the Titanic and complete a task together as a group (or individually). The fourth student becomes the journalist leading the interview.
4. Character Cards: as part of the interview, students receive a ‘Character Card’ to discover what their individual was all about:

• John Astor IV: A first-class passenger and one of the wealthiest men aboard.
• Lawrence Beesley: A second-class passenger and later an author of one of the most famous firsthand accounts of the sinking, “The Loss of the SS Titanic.”
• Annie Kelly: A third-class passenger and an Irish immigrant.