Student Name:
Date:
Voices from the Storm: Expert Group Worksheet
While talking with other students who studied the same person whose Katrina story you read, you will fill in this chart to better understand his/her Katrina experiences.
Name of the person you studied:
Location in New Orleans before Katrina?
Life Before the Storm
1) What are three ways you can describe this personŐs personality? Give evidence for each description.
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2) What are three ways you can describe this personŐs life before the storm? Give evidence for each description.
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The Storm
3) Describe this personŐs situation as the storm approached/hit New Orleans. Where was he/she? With whom? How did he/she feel about the storm? Why was he/she still in the city? (you may not have a ton of information for this one, depending on which personŐs story youŐre studying)
4) Identify three major things that happened to this person or that this person did after the levees broke (the morning of Monday, August 29) and in the following days (through September 4). Include locations, if you can.
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5) How did this person respond to those events? What was his/her state of mind?
The Week After/Weeks After the Storm
6) What was life like for your person during the weeks after the storm? Where was he/she? Why?
7) How did this person respond to these weeks? What was his/her state of mind? How was he/she adapting to his/her environment?
Looking Back
8) Where is the person you studied living at this point? How does he/she feel about living in New Orleans?
9) Looking back, how does the person you studied seem the same and/or different because of his/her Katrina experiences? How does your person view life now?