Calamities 21 stories of disasters that touched the world--with exercises for developing reading comprehension and critical thinking skills
Nonfiction articles examining natural disasters and other catastrophic incidents (such as the Love Canal chemical dumping and the TWA Flight 800 crash). Each is followed by reading comprehension and critical thinking exercises.
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Lincolnwood, Ill.
Jamestown Publishers
1999
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| Series: | Critical reading series
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Table of Contents:
- Calamities Events that Touched the World Nightmare on Chemical Street: The Love Canal Story, The Sweatshop Inferno, Killer Tornado!, The Schoolyard Tragedy, The Crash of TWA Flight 800, A Dance with Death, In the Eye of the Storm, Sabotage in the Desert, Poison on the Drugstore Shelf, Fire in the Subway, The World Series Earthquake, A Deadly Mistake, The North Sea Oil Rig Explosion, Baby Jessica: The Miracle of Midland, Oil, Oil Everywhere, Soccer Fans in a Death Trap, Challenger: The Final Countdown, The Great Mississippi Flood of 1993, Danger Behind Locked Doors, The World's Worst Accident: Massacre at Bhopal, and The Oklahoma City Bombing