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Slide 2: What can I find
out about my hero’s life before he or she became famous?
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Ernest Henry Shackleton was born February 15, 1874.
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He was born in
Ireland.
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His father was
Henry Shackleton and his mother was Henrietta Gavan.
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He had one brother
and eight sisters.
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Instead of going to school when he was very young, he had
a governess at home. Later he went to a nearby preparatory school.
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Slide 3: How did my hero
become famous?
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He left home at
sixteen to become a sailor.
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In 1901, he gained fame by going on a failed expedition to try to reach the South Pole with Robert Scott.
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In 1908 his Nimrod Expedition got to within 97 miles of the South Pole.
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He was knighted
by King Edward VII of England, becoming Sir Shackleton, after his Nimrod
Expedition.
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Slide 4: What obstacles (problems) did my hero
face? or What makes my hero
admirable?
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Ernest’s mother
became an invalid when he was young, so he had to be raised by his father
and various female relatives.
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During the Antarctic Winter, it was dark for
four months (there was no daylight).
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His ship, the Endurance was beset (surrounded by ice) then sunk.
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Stranded in the ice pack, he and his crew did not touch land for 497 days.
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Even when they did reach land, Shackleton and his men had
to cross a never-before-crossed mountain range.
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He nearly died on the expedition with Robert Scott, and
had health problems after that.
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Slide 5: What are his or
her major accomplishments?
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He participated in four
expeditions to Antarctica.
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He was a great
leader who worked hard to keep up the morale of his men to keep them
alive.
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Shackleton kept a diary and encouraged his men to
keep diaries, too, so there would be a record of the expedition.
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The book South, Shackleton's
account of the 'Endurance' expedition, was published in 1919.
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His Endurance
Expedition was shipwrecked, but he
brought all of his men home alive.
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Slide 6: What can I learn about his or her
personal life (family, hobbies,
etc.)?
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On April 9, 1904 he
married Emily Dorman.
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Ernest and Emily had three
children: Raymond, Cecily, and Edward.
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Because Shackleton
didn’t have a regular income, his wife and children lived on Emily’s
inheritance from her father.
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He adored his
children, but was often harsh with them because of his high expectations.
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Shackleton enjoyed smoking cigars.
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Question #6: What other
interesting information have I found out about him or her?
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Shackleton is buried
on South Georgia Island near Antarctica.
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Ernest tried being
a journalist and a politician and investing in boat chartering and gold,
but all of those attempts to
make money failed.
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By age 24,
Shackleton had earned the right to command
a ship.
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His team was the first to climb Mount Erebus, a volcano on the Antarctic Continent.
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Slide 7: The last slide will be the bibliography, also
called the works cited list.
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Bogus “Facts”
-- These would not go on the PowerPoint.
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I would like to explore
Antarctica.
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Shackleton was awesome.
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Shackleton did many
brave things.
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There are many
famous Irishmen.
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