1. When and where was this image captured?

2.  What is happening in this image?

3. What specific people/objects do you see? 

4. What do you notice about the object's condition or the people's expressions or appearance?

5. Why would the person choose this particular scene to capture?

6. What information do the words accompanying the image provide?

7. What is missing from the image?

8. What problems for people are suggested by the images?

9.  What is interesting or surprising about this image?

10. What additional information about the event did you learn from  this image?
 
 

Personal Account Analysis:

1. When and where did this interview take place?

2. What encounter with nature is described in this personal account?

3. How long after the event occurred was this inteview made?

4. What words or phrases best create a visual image of the event?

5. What attitude towards this event does the person seem to have?

6. Who or what at does this person seem to believe is responsible for this event occurring?

7. What problems or effects does the event seem to have had on people's lives?

8.  What lesson does this person seem to have learned from this event?

9. Is there anything interesting or surprising to you about this person's reaction to the situation?

10. What new insights into the natural event does this interview provide you?
 

1. If there is a cover to this piece of sheet music, examine it carefully.  What message does the cover give you about the event?

2. What natural event is this song about?

3. Read through the lyrics. Write a  summary describing the main idea of the song.

4. List any words in the song with which you are not familiar. Find their meanings in a dictionary.

5. Choose one or two phrases of the song that are interesting to you. Explain why they caught your attention.

6. Who or what does the song writer feel is responsible for the event?

7. What problems or effects of the event are mentioned in the song?

8. What new insights does this song give you about the event described?

9. What surprises you about the song?

10. What questions do you have?
 

  1. What additional information
  about the event did the other sources provide? 

This stratovolcano with a near perfect cone is located in central North Island on the southwest flank of the Tangariro massif. It has been New Zealand's most active volcano in historic times, with 61 eruptive episodes since its first recorded
eruption in 1839. The slide shows an oblique aerial view of the steam eruption of August 21, 1968. An ash fall has darkened a fresh layer of snow at the summit. Ngauruhoe erupted again in 1977. Photo credit: University of Colorado
 

Source
 
 

Personal Account:

Click here to read accounts of the eruption.
 
 

Source document.

                                  By: Jimmy Buffett, Keith Sykes, Harry Dailey 
 

                                  Chorus: 
                                  Now I don't know 
                                  I don't know 
                                  I don't know where I'm a gonna go 
                                  When the volcano blow 

                                  Chorus: 
                                  Let me say now I don't know 
                                  I don't know 
                                  I don't know where I'm a gonna go 
                                  When the volcano blow 

                                  Ground she's movin' under me 
                                  Tidal waves out on the sea 
                                  Sulphur smoke up in the sky 
                                  Pretty soon we learn to fly 

                                  Chorus: 
                                  Let me hear ya now I don't know 
                                  I don't know 
                                  I don't know where I'm a gonna go 
                                  When the volcano blow 

                                  No time to count what I'm worth 
                                  'Cause I just left the planet earth 
                                  Where I go I hope there's rum 
                                  Not to worry mon soon come 

                                  Chorus: 
                                  Now I don't know 
                                  I don't know 
                                  I don't know where I'm a gonna go 
                                  When the volcano blow 

                                  Chorus: 
                                  One more now I don't know (ah he don't know) 
                                  I don't know (he don't know, mon) 
                                  I don't know where I'm a gonna go 
                                  When the volcano blow 

                                  But I don't want to land in New York City 
                                  Don't want to land in Mexico (no no no)
                                  Don't want to land on no Three Mile Island 
                                  Don't want to see my skin aglow (no no no) 

                                  Don't want to land in Commanche Sky park 
                                  Or in Nashville, Tennessee (no no no) 
                                  Don't want to land in no San Juan airport 
                                  Or the Yukon Territory (no no no) 

                                  Don't want to land no San Diego 
                                  Don't want to land in no Buzzards Bay (no no no) 
                                  Don't want to land on no Ayotollah 
                                  I got nothing more to say 

                                  Chorus: 
                                  I don't know 
                                  I don't know 
                                  I don't know where I'm a gonna go 
                                  When the volcano blow 

                                  Chorus: 
                                  Just a one more, I don't know (he don't know) 
                                  I don't know (I don't know, man) 
                                  I don't know where I'm a gonna go 
                                  When the volcano blow

Note: Although not written to describe this particular eruption, this song reflects the feelings of the composer to a similar event.
 

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