Today we finished our reading workshop lesson book titled The Mary Celeste: An Unsolved Mystery from History. We discussed how our brain asks us questions while we read and how sometimes our questions don't get answered. In the case of The Mary Celeste, a BIG lingering question is—what happened to the crew? In four to five sentences or more, explain your theory about what happened to the crew of the ship. Be sure to to watch this video. It is less than two minutes. Back up your theory with evidence from the book and let's see what you can come up with! Do not be silly and check your work.
My theory of the Mary Celeste is that crew got drunk because there were 9 barrels without alcohol. They could have drunk the alcohol in the barrels. Since they would act crazy they would jump off the ship. Even though the captain was a worthy seaman he still could have done it. Because people are not always as they seem.
ReplyDeleteMy theory of the Mary Celeste is that a shark could have tried to attack the ship, the captain, his family and the crew. They all escaped on a lifeboat with the stuff they needed for a few days. They could have starved to death a few weeks later.
ReplyDeleteI don't really know what happened to the mary celeste but I think the ship went into the Bermuda triangle where a lot of bad things can happen there. So maybe thats what happened to the crew!!!!! The mystery of the mary celeste is up to you.
ReplyDeleteI was absent for the last part of the story so I did a little research. My theory for the disappearing of the crew is that the crew and the captain all abandoned the ship. But why did they not bring the food and all of the belongings? So my other theory is that the aclohol barrels could have had a friction if they rubbed against each other and causes an explosion. The crew tried to save themselves by jumping into the lifeboat but were in too much of a hurry so they didn't bring any food with them so they could have drowned our get eaten by sometype of sea creature. But still the explosion would have left some burnt marks on the floor and there were not any! So what could have happened?
ReplyDeleteMy theory is that the crew was attacked by a shark. And they all died. But the ship would be more messed up if a shark attacked but I'm not sure. Nobody is.
ReplyDeletei was absent for the first part of the story. I dont know what hapend but my theory is that the crew acadently sailed into the bemta triangle and the a lot of bad stuff coud of happend.and that might have killed
ReplyDeletethe crew.thats my theeory
My theory is that they got drunk from raw alcohol and fell off the ship, and died in the sea. There were 160 barrels of raw alcohol and a few were open and some were empty. The rest had just some in it but probably because of evaporation. Nobody really knows what happened by I'm guessing that my theory is probably what happened.
ReplyDeleteThe Mary Celeste story is very spooky. "The untold mystery!" I think what happened to them is that the crew was getting off the ship, and they forgot to dock, or one of the ropes was not tied securely. Then they reached out to grab the ropes, but it was too late. The ship floated away and the crew drowned while trying to save the boat. The abandoned ship was found by the crew of the De Gracia. There were very few clues and the mystery remains unsolved.
ReplyDeleteThe mary celeste is a unsolved mystrey of history.
ReplyDeletedid you know that the mary celeste kept information in a log is'nt that weird. Did you no that the crew of the mary celetes dis apered that is a mystey that wil never be told. my theroy of the mary celeste is that I think that a nother ship took all of cerwthat because that sip din't have enough cerw. THis mystery maybe never be solved.
My theory is that everybody on the Mary Celeste died from a bad disease. But no one knows. Even today it's still not solved. What is your theory?
ReplyDeleteMy theory was that the people jumped off on the life boat. There was stormy weather so they could not survive. I think the captain went on a special boat with his family. I think they couldn't survive.
ReplyDeleteThe Mary Celeste is a great book. There is a mystery. Did you know that they kept information in a log? They also had 1,700 barrels of alcohol for wounds. Wow that is a lot! I wonder why the Mary Celeste crew was never found? I think what happened to the crew was that they ran out of food so they starved to death.
ReplyDeleteI think that on one of the bottles of alcohol there was a little bit of poison and everybody died from it. When this happened they were all on deck.When the storm came a big wave washed away all the bodies. The storm did not destroy the ship but took away all the bodies.I think this is what happened.
ReplyDeleteI think all of the crew got nocked off by HUGE waves while everybody is out side. The waves nocked off the life bought causing everybody t think they left the ship and they found the life boat empty because nobody was there in the first place!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeletemrs. O'Connell this is the best theory I can think of.
Thats my theory
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I really liked this book.My theory is that they used poisonous alcohol on wounds. And when the storm came they got swept out to sea. this is what I think the Mary Celeste.
ReplyDeleteI really liked this book.My theory is that I think the ship sunk under a big wave.And I also think the crew of the Mary Celeste fell off board and was never seen again.
ReplyDeletethe mary celeste is a story of a ship and the crew went missing. the DEI Gratie ship goes out looking for the mary celeste they find the ship but no crew. the ship has no life boat and is loaded with alcohol.the DEI Gratie send two men to look around and they find a log full of information.
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