Step 2: What is Alcatraz? Where is it located?
What you'll need for this task:
-A piece of paper
-A pen/pencil
-An attentive mind
Use the websites below to answer the following questions:
1. What was Alcatraz?
2. Where was Alcatraz located? (Name a city and state in the U.S.A. to be specific)
3. Sketch and label a basic portrait of what the layout of Alcatraz looks like today. (The 1st website listed will help you!)
4. What is another name that Alcatraz has been given?
5. How many escape attempts were there?
6. What kinds of crimes did you have to commit to be sent to Alcatraz?
7. What responsibilities did prisoners have during the day?
8. Were prisoners allowed to communicate with family/friends? How?
9. What things did prisoners have inside their cells? (Ex: a bed)
10. What were the names of 3 famous inmates (prisoners) at Alcatraz?
Websites:
http://www.nps.gov/alca/planyourvisit/upload/map-alcatraz.pdf
http://www.american-historama.org/1881-1913-maturation-era/alcatraz-prison-history.htm
Now, continue onto Step 3.
-A piece of paper
-A pen/pencil
-An attentive mind
Use the websites below to answer the following questions:
1. What was Alcatraz?
2. Where was Alcatraz located? (Name a city and state in the U.S.A. to be specific)
3. Sketch and label a basic portrait of what the layout of Alcatraz looks like today. (The 1st website listed will help you!)
4. What is another name that Alcatraz has been given?
5. How many escape attempts were there?
6. What kinds of crimes did you have to commit to be sent to Alcatraz?
7. What responsibilities did prisoners have during the day?
8. Were prisoners allowed to communicate with family/friends? How?
9. What things did prisoners have inside their cells? (Ex: a bed)
10. What were the names of 3 famous inmates (prisoners) at Alcatraz?
Websites:
http://www.nps.gov/alca/planyourvisit/upload/map-alcatraz.pdf
http://www.american-historama.org/1881-1913-maturation-era/alcatraz-prison-history.htm
Now, continue onto Step 3.