Who Was Book Club: Where Is the Bermuda Triangle?

Note: In addition to having your own copy of the book, you will also need access to a printer in order to fully participate in this class. (There are eleven worksheets to print, but they are in black and white and easy on your printer's ink.)

Did you know there is a place in the Atlanta Ocean where many ships and planes have mysteriously vanished? Did you know that Christopher Columbus was one of the first people to sail through this strange place? During this interactive book club, we will read about a place called the Bermuda Triangle and the mysterious events that have happened there. 

This class will be held every day for one week (Monday-Friday). Reading assignments and homework will be given at the end of each class.

Class Outline:

Day One: 
- Introduction to class
- What is a mystery?
- Bermuda shipwrecks 
- Flight 19
- US Coast Guard and air traffic control towers
- Make a bookmark

Day Two:
- Discuss answers to assigned worksheets
- Sargasso Sea
- Joshua Slocum
- Cyclops Navy Ship
- Learn Morse code

Day Three:
- Discuss answers to assigned worksheet
- Disappearing ships and planes
- Difference between a boat and a ship
- Make paper boats

Day Four:
- Discuss answers to assigned worksheets
- Compasses
- City of Atlantis
- UFOs (and James McDivitt)
- Make unique paper airplanes.

Day Five:
- Discuss answers to assigned worksheets
- Solved versus unsolved mysteries (and students' opinions) using worksheet 7
- Boat-building-challenge show and tell (voluntary)


Other Info:
- Students will need to bring their copy of the book to every class. But they do not need to start reading the book until AFTER the first class. (This is important so it doesn't spoil the mystery of the book.)
- Before the first class starts, parents will need to assist students in printing the eleven class worksheets (that are provided by the teacher upon enrollment). Students will be encouraged but not required to share their completed work during class.