Monday, November 3, 2014

A Who's Who for the Ross Sea Party

Here is an example of a Who's Who.
An External Text Feature for Nova's Shackleton:

  • Notice that the names are listed alphabetically
  • Notice that there are ten items.  You need 8 to 10.  
  • I've added an illustration with a caption, which just might earn some extra points.
  • Yours does not have to be in a table.  
  • It could be a numbered list with the names and explanations of who each person is. 
  • (This is a Who's Who for an article online.  Yours will be for your nonfiction book.)


ROSS SEA PARTY


  --  WHO'S WHO --
The Men of The Aurora – The Ross Sea Party -- Shackleton’s Other Crew
Below are the men who placed the supply depots for Shackleton.
Name
Postition

Birthplace
Other
1. J.L. Cope
surgeon

England, born 1883

2. Irvine O. Gaze
officer

Born in 1890 
 a cousin of Spencer-Smith
3. V.G. Hayward
secretary

 Born in London in 1889
Known as ‘Vic,’ lost on the expedition and presumed dead

4. A. Keith Jack
physicist and assistant biologist

Born 1885 at Brighton, Victoria

5. Ernest Joyce
in charge of dogs

England --
born Bognor, England, 1875
a seasoned veteran of Nimrod and Scott's Discovery,
suffered from snow-blindness

6. Aeneas  Lional Acton Mackintosh
Captain

Scottish, but born in Tirhut India, 1879
 sailed with Shackleton on Nimrod, losing an eye in a cargo-loading accident
 suffered from scurvy, lost on the expedition and presumed dead

7. R.W. “Dick” Richards

physicist


Born in Bendigo, Victoria, 1893.

8. Reverend Arnold Spencer-Smith

chaplain and photographer 


Born 1883 in Streatham, Surrey.
 suffered from scurvy, his legs turned black from ankle to hip, so he was left alone while the other men went on,  later died on this expedition
9. A.O. Stevens

geologist, chief scientist


Born Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, 1886.

10. Ernest Wild
in charge of stores (supplies)

England
Born at Nettleton, Lincolnshire in 1879
brother of Frank Wild, nicknamed ‘Tubby’, went to sea at the age of 15, second in command on The Endurance, had a toe and part of an ear amputated as a result of this expedition,  died fighting in World War I after returning from this expedition






additional information found at http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=DOM19170206.2.49 and in Wikipedia entries