Book Study: A Night to Remember: Post-Reading Response Prompts

After completing Walter Lord’s book A Night to Remember, give students a chance to reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these response prompts. Featuring nine prompts about A Night to Remember, this worksheet invites students to choose five prompts to respond to digitally or on a separate piece of paper. Readers will explore the theme of hubris in technology and analyze the way that passengers’ wealth and influence—or lack thereof—impacted their behaviors, decisions, and fate on board the Titanic. Click “View answer key” to see sample student responses. Designed for seventh- and eighth-grade students, this worksheet is part of a larger set in our book study unit on A Night to Remember.