The story is presented through the eyes of the authors and goes back and forth between documenting for the reader the events of the most famous shipwreck of all time and how modern technology allows us to learn about these events from the past.  By using a mini-submarine, named ‘Alvin’, the authors are able to include actual photographs that illustrate for the reader what the text describes. (Pearson Reading Street, 2010)

This lesson was created as part of the Basal Alignment Project, during which teachers created CCSS-aligned lessons for existing literary and information texts in basal readers. All page numbers and unit/week designations found in this lesson relate to the edition of the basal reader named above. If you are using a trade book or different edition of this title, the page/unit/week references in this lesson will not match. Consult the content referenced in the body of the lesson to determine appropriate page numbers for your text.