TITANIC Assignment

August-September 2006

 

 

Ms. Jasztal’s advanced reading class portrayed different imaginary characters from the TITANIC who either survived or perished. The writing assignment was to talk about what happened once the ocean liner hit the iceberg. Here are our imaginary passengers.

 

One Sunday evening, Veronica Jasztal snuck into the kitchen and grabbed a bag of cookies. They tasted like heaven to her. Suddenly, she heard a loud thud that sounded like thunder! At first she thought it was just rain, but then she found out the Titanic was sinking! She ran to the deck as fast as she could and got into lifeboat #16. When the boat was lowering into the sea, the chain broke and she fell into the icy cold water. Veronica screamed and yelled until another life boat picked her up and put her in. It was lifeboat #18. She thanked God that she hadn’t died from frostbite. When she looked back, the ship broke in two pieces, letting millions of things fall out. The Titanic slowly sank beneath the ocean like the way a turtle swam in the water very, very slowly. Hundreds of people ran to the ship and hung on for dear life. Veronica fell asleep in the life boat. When she woke up, she was in a room with yellow walls and two lamps beside her. Veronica was in a bed that felt like a lamb was hugging her because it was so soft. Somebody opened the door and went inside the room. He had brown hair with dark green eyes. His eyes were so dark they looked like seaweed. He asked Veronica if she was okay. She asked him, “What happened?” in a puzzled voice. He told her she was on board the Santa Rosa. Then she asked him his name. His name was Steven. Steven told her that she had been rescued from life boat #18. She spent almost all of the afternoon asking him questions. Now Veronica is very elderly and is currently on vacation with her husband Steve. Yes, she did marry the Steve I was just talking about! They have 6 children and 11 grandchildren. But there was just one more think I forgot to say and it is this: and they lived happily ever after.

- Sara G.

 

Jenna Amber Nixon, 31, is getting on the first class with her daughter, Nikki Elizabeth Nixon, 9. They’re going to Missouri from England. All of a sudden, they heard a “boom”! They hit an iceberg that made a big hole. They started seeing water coming in. The boat started to sink. They grabbed something to hold on to, and she wished she had never come. They survived, but her daughter had to stay in a lifeboat away from her while Jenna went down to rescue her boyfriend and his baby Leann Nicole Brackish, 9 weeks old. They climbed onto the life boat and lived. They are still alive today and got married on May 16, 1920.

- Katy B.

 

Sharea Nicole ShonLay is first class. She died when she was 19. She tried to hang on to the boat but she just woke up and she was too weak. So she fell in the middle of the boat and it buried her. Her mother was on the boat, and she survived. Yet when she heard about her daughter, she was crushed and five years later the mother died, too. We think she died from sadness, but we don’t know. The father, Dash, is still alive now. He is 99 and he remarried, but we don’t know to whom.

- Jennifer S.

 

One day a man named George McFly got on the TITANIC. The Titanic was a big metal boat that was unsinkable. One day he was playing ping pong when all of a sudden he felt a thud. He assumed the worst and started running up the stairs to the dock. Everyone said, “We hit an iceberg!” He ran to the captain and asked what happened. The captain answered that we hit an iceberg. George said to get all the children and girls off the boat. He ran to a life boat that was full but he lay on the ground and survived. He watched the Titanic sink.

- Matthew P.

 

One day a man named Jake Fileps got on the Titanic. When he went to bed, he heard a bang. Everyone ran to the deck but they held the men back. Jake got on the last lifeboat and lived, but he jumped back on the Titanic to save his sweetheart. They ran and ran as fast as they could. They jumped and they made it. Yet his sweetheart died of the cold water. But he found another women and they got married. And he and the love of his life lived happily ever after.

- Christopher J.

 

Emily Rose Hatchet is nineteen and is a first class passenger. She is a model too, and she survived on the Titanic. She is still alive today and still famous. A photographer asked her if she wanted to take some pictures on the deck. So she put on her purple dress. Then she put on a big purple hat with a big purple ribbon. She put on her high pink shoes. Then she walked up to the deck and posed to take some pictures. Then she fell down with a thud and yelled, “Earthquake!” She ran to the captain, and the captain told her that they had hit a big iceberg. The captain told her to go to the lifeboats and the crew men would help her in. So she got in a lifeboat and started to row away, watching the Titanic sink. She is still telling her story today.

- Maria C.

 

Claire DeSwan, 16, was in the hot tub with 16 close friends and the hot tub was only open to them. Suddenly the iceberg hit, and she as well as men in trunks ran to lifeboat #16. Luckily she and her fellows were saved. Now she lives in California with thirty-two children not far from her. Yay, she and her fellows survived!!! Good thing she survived because then I wouldn’t be writing about her journey if she didn’t live, would I?
- Samantha N.

 

In 1912, Cady Renena Alisse boarded the Titanic. She was a first class passenger. She belonged to a little or should I say BIG baseball team. They were as close to perfect as it could get. She was sleeping when the Titanic hit the iceberg. The next day was her birthday, and she was turning thirty years old. The next day her husband was booking reservations for the fanciest restaurant on the ship. When he heard the shrieking, he went and got his wife and two children Adam and Carly. She quickly dressed them. They got on a lifeboat and Adam fell out, but Cady grabbed him and pulled him into the boat. They got to land.

- Hannah H.

 

There was a lady named Elizabeth Marsh Rose who got on the Titanic. She was 35 and on the first class. The Titanic was enormous and made out of metal and wood. The first class was really fancy. She got on the Titanic because she heard it was unsinkable. One day a man that was on the boat woke her up. The man said, “Hurry! Hurry! Get your children dressed!” She had two children named Maronda and Jamale. Her children said, “What’s happening?” “The Titanic hit an iceberg,” answered Mrs. Rose. “But we are scared to die!” said Jamale and Maronda. The children were afraid, and their mom Mrs. Rose wondered if there would be a boat for them. The more Maronda and Jamale wondered about what could happen to them, they cried, prayed, jumped up and down, and said they never imagined nothing like that in 100 billion years of their life. The lady wanted to get in the lifeboat with her children, but she couldn’t because the boat was full. So she got on a different lifeboat, #11. She was looking for them for days. Mrs. Rose found Maronda and Jamale. The family survived but the second class did not. Elizabeth, Maronda, and Jamale wanted to go see their family and Meronda and Jamale’s father. When the children saw their father, they told him about the trip. The lady and her children said “I’m not getting on a boat any more.” Well, at least they survived!

- Aaliyah R.

 

Ms. Elizabeth Masuny Barber, 36, 2nd class passenger. She was down in the late night kitchen eating her own personal chocolate buffet open to no one but her. She was eating away while doing her lesson plans in her notebook. The ship hit the iceberg, and she ran to her two children and husband (who was still asleep). She woke him up and went into lifeboat #20. She is still alive with her husband and two children. She always yells everywhere, “Give me my chocolate!!!”

- Shannon F.

 

Wallace Henry Hartley. Second class. Age thirty-three. He died along with a lot of other people when the Titanic sank. He was tuning his violin and getting ready to play a song with a band on the ship when he heard a loud boom and a screech, but not a long one. He was the leader of a lot of different orchestras. He died because he got held back with all the other men. He raced up the Grand Staircase to see what happened. He was up in time to see the iceberg. He thought, Did he hit that iceberg? Then all of a sudden, he knew that they hit it, so he didn’t ask the captain what happened. He ended up going down with the somewhat 800 other people.

- Race M.

 

Meneiko A. Peterson was a first-class passenger. His room was pure gold and he paid $5,000 for everything except his bed. The food was plentiful and his private pool was only open to girls and him. His pool was 20 feet wide. He was swimming in the shallow end, eating his extra-extra large pizza. The boat suddenly shook, shook, and shook some more. He ran to his room, got his seven coats on, and then charged for a lifeboat. On his way there, he shoved and pushed people out of his way. He hopped on the boat and survived. The Carpathia saved him from freezing to death, and he stayed until he saw the bridge to New York.

- Jeremiah D.

 

My name is Alexander P. Arsomeparketaretovormendommel the fourth. I am single and put in so much money to go on the TITANIC that I almost went bankrupt. Oh, and by the way my last name was changed- it used to be Domandoth the fourth but something happened toward the end- but let’s get back to where we were. So I got so curious I snuck up to second class then before I knew it I was in first class. I went into one of the rooms. It was huge!!! Solid gold everywhere, giant ice sculptures, and bigger rooms than mine. I was so amazed I almost forgot to be quiet. Then I tried to take a brick of gold but I got so nervous I went back to my small cramped room in third class. It was very dark, so I felt around for my mattress, pillow, and blanket in a corner, and began to sleep. When I woke up, I quickly remembered that today was buffet day at the Titanic. So I quickly got dressed and ran to the dinner. I grabbed seven of everything in sight and what I couldn’t finish I stuffed I mean crammed leftovers into my coat pocket. I left off whispering, I haven’t eaten like that since I was 7 years old. Then suddenly, the boat shook while I was resting my eyes and slowly my small cramped room began to fill with water!!!!! I immediately ran up to the docks and asked what was going on- of course I lied to get on a lifeboat and made it to New York. The leftovers even survived. In New York, I married Ms. Dorsson Speckason and became very wealthy. I still wonder what had happened.

- Michael M.

 

Elizabeth Hoot McEntire was from Chicago and on the boat when the Titanic sank. She was eating a chicken dinner when she found out that the Titanic hit an iceberg. She was 18 at the time and is still alive today. She had two girls who were twins and only one day old. She was in love with John Lee Smith- she loved him and he loved her. Her children were named Kaitlyn and Meshealle. Her children, husband, and herself were in first class. Her husband was shaving while the Titanic hit an iceberg. She led her family to rescue, and they all survived. She could not finish her chicken because she had to make it to safety as fast as she possibly could.

- Destra M.

 

Beth Laura Rosa was a first class passenger. She was 31 years old with her daughter Nicky Rosa. As Nicky was sleeping, Ms. Beth was sitting in the hot tub relaxing when all of a sudden the hot tub turned off. The water was turning cold and the water started rising. She ran up the grand staircase to get her 10 year old daughter Nicky. She was up and in her best clothing when her mother grabbed her by the hand. They went up to deck and someone grabbed them. They survived the long cold waters when they got to her destination, Rhode Island. Ms. Beth saw her mother and father. She told them about the long journey. Ms. Beth lived fifty more years while Nicky lived seventy years later.

- Nicky R.

 

Sheri Lynn Tigue was 32. She was in the pool relaxing when the Titanic hit the iceberg. She ran to get her ten year old daughter Alexis. She got their coats and got their lifejackets. They were 1st class so they both got in lifeboat #11. It was so full of people they couldn’t see anything at all. The captain soon said, “Sheri and Alexis, go back on the ship. You forgot your purse with your money in it.” She answered, “I want to stay.” She had her money in her pocket the whole time. So they survived and got home and told everybody about it. They were surprised, and they lived for a long, long time.

- Alexis T.

 

Ellin Nellie Barber was singing in the shower. As soon as she realized the Titanic was sinking, she thought, Oh, I hope the Titanic does not crash and I hope I don’t have to get on lifeboat #13. I’d rather go on lifeboat #11 with my mom. She ran out and said the Titanic crashed so it happened again and she found out it really did crash. She got on lifeboat #13.

- Chloe S.

 

Hello, I am John James Jr., age 20. I was swimming when the water shook. I ran to get my clothes on. I ran up one floor to the deck because I am first class. Everybody was screaming Hole! Hole! Iceberg! Iceberg! I ran to the edge and saw a crevice in the side. The boat lunged forward and was sinking. I ran to a lifeboat and sat down with everyone else. I made it to safety, but not a lot did. We rowed to the huge ship, the Carpathia. I was looking for my twin brother, James John. I found him on deck pretty fast and we waited to get to North America to our mother and father. We hugged and thought about the Titanic sinking to the bottom of the ocean.

- Nick P.

 

Alisa Ray Percens was 20. She was first class and a famous dancer, singer, and performer. She loved the Army and worked on cars. She fell in love and got married on the Titanic. She was a football player and lost a football on the Titanic. She was playing football when the ship hit the iceberg. She survived, but she lost her husband as well as her parrot, dog, cat, snake, rat, mouse, and baby raccoon. When she landed, she found out she was pregnant. In 1913, she had her babies, which turned out to be twins. She had a girl and a boy. After that, she had four girls and three boys. 

- Scarlett H.

 

I was on the Titanic because I wanted a nice trip and start a new life in New York. While the Titanic hit the iceberg, I was first class so I was eating a fancy dinner. I was eating a nice juicy steak and a juicy hamburger. My drink was a big Coke. My side was salty French fries. How I reacted… man, you don’t want to know, but I’ll tell you, anyway. When I heard the Titanic was sinking, I rushed out to the deck and yelled at the top of my lungs, “WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST!!!” My job was a restaurant stockholder. I made new food and stuff like that. Everybody was pushing me, so I ran and I fell off the ship, but someone grabbed me. Then I sailed away, even though I am a man. I didn’t see anyone survive except the people on the lifeboat. I knew the people with me on the lifeboat because they ate with me in the first class dinner. I didn’t have any children with me, but my wife did at home. I traveled to the place where the Titanic was taking off in England. When I was getting on the lifeboat, everybody was pushing me out of the way and when I was getting on the rescue ship, the ropes were soaked.

- David J.