Colegio Comunitario Distrital Villa del Carmen

Students name: _________________________________ Date: _____________ Teacher: MAYERLI

CABALLERO

NUMBER THE EVENTS IN THE RIGHT ORDER

_____When we were in the water, we could hear people rushing about on the deck.
That's when the panic must have started when they found there weren't any
lifeboats left. I was terrified. I didn't know what a shipwreck would mean or how long
it would take but I was too terrified to do anything but shriek for my father I knew
we'd left behind.

_____I was with my parents. My father was going to open a business in Winnipeg.
People were saying to my mother and father how fortunate they were to get on the
Titanic. I was excited because I was going on a wonderful big ship.

_____I looked back and saw the whole of that tragedy. And I saw that ship break in
half. The front part went down and left the stern sticking up in a horrifying fashion. It
was enormous. It seemed to stick up in the air for a long time. And then it gradually
went down, turning over.

_____I had no fear or apprehension or anything. She was very beautiful: luxurious
beyond words. It was the first time I'd been on board a ship. Captain Smith was on
deck and he was very nice. He had a beard like my own grandfather and he admired a
doll I had.

_____It was discovered that my lifeboat was overcrowded and the officer in charge of
the boat decided he would get rid of his load by putting people in other boats. I got
separated from my mother and didn't find her until the next day.

_____Before she sank, she was a very beautiful ship: stationary on the ocean with all
her lights on. It was dreadfully cold but the sea was the calmest I'd ever seen. The
starlit night was the brightest I'd ever seen.

_____On the third night I was sound asleep. My mother woke me and said "I'm going to
dress you." But before she could my father came back from deck and said "You'd best
put this thick coat on." That was all he said. Standing on deck, I couldn't see around
the funnel. My father came back and said "The ship has struck an iceberg." My father
had no difficulty in putting me and my mother in lifeboats but he made no attempt to
get in himself

______And after that there was the sound of the whole disaster. And that was people
drowning. That is something you could never forget. And then the dreadful silence
that followed it. It seemed as if the whole world was standing still.

_____We were given clothes because I'd only got my nightclothes and a blanket around
me. I had nightmares from the time it sank until I was 23. And though I wouldn't like
to say I'm not frightened of the sea, I lost a lot of the horror. I've never been in
anything touching the Titanic. A beauty. She was lovely.
______The next day, the icebergs were like white sails in the distance: white yachts
with the sun on them. They were very beautiful. They were all around us. The crew of
the ship that rescued us were very kind and good to us.