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Elaine Scott’s account of the ordeal of the thirty-three miners trapped 2,300 feet below the Chilean desert in the San José mine collapse is riveting,moving, and informative. Weaving the chronological narrative of the miners’ story with technical information about how they were rescued, this incredible book offers many entry points for all kinds of learners. Scott seems to anticipate what readers will be curious about and has stocked the book with information not only about the technology used to free the miners but also about the details of their daily lives underground.
Buried Alive! is a wonderful tribute to the thirty-three men whose plight captured the attention of the world.
Elaine Scott’s account of the ordeal of the thirty-three miners trapped 2,300 feet below the Chilean desert in the San José mine collapse is riveting,moving, and informative. Weaving the chronological narrative of the miners’ story with technical information about how they were rescued, this incredible book offers many entry points for all kinds of learners. Scott seems to anticipate what readers will be curious about and has stocked the book with information not only about the technology used to free the miners but also about the details of their daily lives underground.
Buried Alive! is a wonderful tribute to the thirty-three men whose plight captured the attention of the world.
Elaine Scott’s account of the ordeal of the thirty-three miners trapped 2,300 feet below the Chilean desert in the San José mine collapse is riveting,moving, and informative. Weaving the chronological narrative of the miners’ story with technical information about how they were rescued, this incredible book offers many entry points for all kinds of learners. Scott seems to anticipate what readers will be curious about and has stocked the book with information not only about the technology used to free the miners but also about the details of their daily lives underground.
Buried Alive! is a wonderful tribute to the thirty-three men whose plight captured the attention of the world.
Buried Alive! How 33 Miners Survived 69 Days Deep Under the Chilean Desert by Elaine Scott
• Mining is a collaborative effort between all
the members of a team. How do you think this helped the miners survive their ordeal? • Luis Urzúa, “Don Lucho” to his team and “Bossy Boots” to his mother, is credited with keeping the men going during their many days underground. One of the ways he did this was by insisting that the men eat all of their meals together even though they were each given only “two spoonfuls of tuna, a sip of milk, a bite of cracker, and a tiny morsel of canned peach a day”(p. 20). Why did he do this? • Why did the men continue to organize their days into work shifts in the mine when they were trapped? • One of the miners, Edison Peña, ran and 978-0-547-70778-5 $17.99 Rnf. / $22.50 CAN exercised while trapped in the mine, he said, “to be an active participant in my Book Summary own salvation” (p 23). How did running contribute to his struggle to be rescued? Elaine Scott’s account of the ordeal of the thirty- three miners trapped 2,300 feet below the Chilean • When Mario Sepúlveda cried in the mine, he desert in the San José mine collapse is riveting, walked away from all of the others. Why? moving, and informative. Weaving the chronological • What would you miss most, if you were narrative of the miners’ story with technical trapped with the miners? information about how they were rescued, this • Just as the miners had to cooperate, incredible book offers many entry points for all collaborate, and rely on one another, so did kinds of learners. Scott seems to anticipate what the people working on getting them out. readers will be curious about and has stocked What strengths did different people bring to the book with information not only about the the project? technology used to free the miners but also about the details of their daily lives underground. Buried • The tubes used to send and receive Alive! is a wonderful tribute to the thirty-three men messages and supplies are called palomas, whose plight captured the attention of the world. or doves. The rescue capsule was named the Phoenix, after a bird that is reborn from ashes. Why do you think these names are Discussion Questions meaningful? These questions might also be used as essay topics. • What setbacks did the teams experience • There had been concerns about the safety while drilling? How did they overcome of the San José mine for years before the them? collapse in August 2010. Why did the owners do nothing to address these issues? Explain. Houghton Mifflin Books for Children • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com A d i s c u s s i o n G u i d e Buried Alive! How 33 Miners Survived 69 Days Deep Under the Chilean Desert by Elaine Scott • Camp Hope, where the families of miners • Essay topic: Ask students to compare and lived while they were waiting for the miners contrast rescue plans A, B, and C in their to be rescued, was full of children—how own words. What were the benefits and were they supported during this difficult drawbacks of each? time? How did they participate? Science: Buried Alive!, and especially the • What challenges do the miners face post- diagram of pulleys on p. 59, provides wonderful rescue? Why? context for engaging in a study of pulleys. Either • Can you imagine what it would be like to with a science kit or with simple found supplies talk to only thirty-three people—say, your such as string and spools, ask your students to classmates—for months? What kinds of work in teams (just as the miners did) to explore challenges would you face? how pulleys allow us to easily raise and lower heavy objects. • In her afterword, Scott says that this story has helped her appreciate her own Math: Buried Alive! is a great source of real-life freedoms. How does it help you appreciate context for word problems. Using situations yours? in the book, create word problems for your students that demonstrate ways that math is Teaching Ideas used in the real world. The problems’ content will depend on your students’ math needs. You Language Arts: might, for example, create problems that ask • In the author’s note at the back of the book, students to determine how much tuna each Elaine Scott describes the process she went miner would get if they have (x) cans for (x) through to research and collect accurate days. You might ask students to determine how information about the San José mine much cable would be needed to lower a rescue disaster. In the context of a research project capsule (x) feet underground, etc. of their own, discuss with your students the Social Studies: Mining is an ancient profession different sources of information she used that has taken place nearly everywhere in the and the importance of both finding and world. With your students, research the history becoming a reliable source. As your students of mining in your area. research, ask them to use a variety of sources, as Scott did, in order to provide the most complete picture possible. • Ask your students to pick a local news event to research and write about. Ask them to include primary source interviews, as Scott was able to do with Greg Hall. • Buried Alive! is a wonderful mentor text to use within a study of nonfiction narrative. Study the book with your students from a writer’s perspective. What do they notice? How does she make it exciting? What different nonfiction features does the book include that students could try out in their This guide for discussion and classroom use own writing? was written by Zoe Ryder White. Houghton Mifflin Books for Children • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com