We have just read Lois Burdett's "Shakespeare Can Be Fun: The Tempest, For Kids." The story is a fairy tale, complete with monsters, magicians, and maidens. Shakespeare wrote this tale, around the year 1610, for the theater in a style of narrative, lyric poetry. However, how do we know that this tale is based only upon fictional ideas? Your task will be to create your own narrative tale based only upon factual information of a dramatic event in history from the past 100 years. What kind of monsters, magic, and maidens will you discover as you read about real shipwrecks?

Your task in this WebQuest is the following:

• Search the Internet for information on real-life shipwrecks.
• Find examples of different types of disasters that may have caused your group's chosen shipwreck.
• Locate certain places on a world map or globe.
• With your group, write your own tale of your chosen shipwreck.
• Use the "Tools" button of your word processing program to grammar- & spell-check, define, or find synonyms & antonyms.