Weekly Displays: Titanic's 100th Anniversary

Just as our obsession with The Hunger Games was starting to dry up, the 100th anniversary of the voyage of the Titanic came along.  What luck!  (For us, at least; not so much for the actual Titanic passengers.)

Inspired by the "boarding passes" that the traveling Titanic Artifact Exhibit handed out to visitors at its various museums (we both saw the exhibit when it was at the Science Museum of Minnesota in 2010), I made our own school version of a Titanic ticket complete with passenger information and a note about whether or not that passenger had the good fortune (and significant social status) to survive the disaster.  Many students rifled through the tickets in order to claim a survivor's ticket.  No one wants to end up alone in the icy Atlantic with a sinking luxury cruise ship, after all...

A sample boarding pass from the Titanic Artifact Exhibit.

Our tickets were set out along with a display of Titanic books, including Walter Lord's classic A Night to Remember, the novel Fateful by Claudia Gray (it's about werewolves on the Titanic and is a fabulous guilty-pleasure read), Allan Wolf's novel-in-verse The Watch That Ends the Night, the 1986 National Geographic issue that showcased the discovery of the wreck, and a completely inappropriate Danielle Steel romance novel set on the Titanic called No Greater Love which we weeded from the collection but couldn't resist putting on display anyway.

The luxury liner on its way to the inevitable meeting with the iceberg, above our Titanic book display.

And yes, of course we both watched the Titanic miniseries over the weekend.  :)