English – Tuesday 23rd February

Can I research my chosen role on Shackleton’s expedition?

1. Using the internet, research the three jobs you chose yesterday. Which job would you like to apply for if you had the chance?

2. You will now research your chosen job in more detail. Alongside the jobs, I have added the name of the original crew member so that you can research them effectively. You will need to use internet search methods to research both the name and the job.

- Ship’s captain Frank Worsley - Expedition meteorologist Leonard Hussey - Expedition physicist Reginald James - Second officer Tom Crean - Expedition artist George Marston - Motor expert and storekeeper Thomas Orde-Lees - Fireman and stocker William Stephenson - Second-in-command Frank Wild - Able seaman Walter How - Boatswain and able seaman John Vincent - Expedition biologist Robert Clark - Expedition geologist James Wordie - Expedition photographer Frank Hurley - First officer Lionel Greenstreet - Ship’s cook Charles Green - Able seaman Thomas McLeod - Able seaman Timothy McCarthy - Second surgeon Dr James McIlroy - Able seaman and stoker Ernest Holness - Second engineer Alexander Kerr - Ship’s carpenter Henry McNeish - Third officer Alfred Cheetham - Expedition surgeon Dr Alexander Macklin English – Tuesday 23rd February - Navigating officer Huberht Hudson - Chief engineer Louis Rickinson - Able seaman, stowaway William Bakewell and Percy Blackborrow

Make notes on your chosen job using the following headings, try to write at least 3 points for each heading: - Education (what school, college or university did they attend? When did they attend?) - Experience (have they been on any other expeditions? Did they do other jobs related to being at sea?) - Special skills (any skills that made this person good at their job) - Personal qualities (brave, committed etc.) - Facts about the job or the individual (person) you have researched

You should be writing notes, remember effective notes do not copy down ALL of the information. You need to include the key information. Below is the information I found on an internet search for Ernest Shackleton’s education. Education From early childhood, Shackleton was a voracious reader, a pursuit which sparked a passion for adventure.[8] He was schooled by a governess until the age of eleven, when he began at Fir Lodge Preparatory School in West Hill, Dulwich, in southeast London. At the age of thirteen, he entered Dulwich College.[6] The young Shackleton did not particularly distinguish himself as a scholar, and was said to be "bored" by his studies.[6] He was quoted later as saying: "I never learned much geography at school ... Literature, too, consisted in the dissection, the parsing, the analysing of certain passages from our great poets and prose-writers ... teachers should be very careful not to spoil [their pupils'] taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition."[6] In his final term at the school he was still able to achieve fifth place in his class of thirty-one.

I would make the following notes: - Had a governess until he was 11 - Attended Fir Lodge Preparatory School in West Hill, Dulwich, Southeast London from age 11-13 - Entered Dulwich College at 13 - He enjoyed reading, which sparked a passion for adventure