WHALING

MOBY DICK JOURNAL ENTRIES

Choose 3 of the 5 topics listed below.  Follow the outline to complete the journal entries.  Complete the outline, rough draft of essay and revise to improve the final draft.

	Information about the port of departure
	Information about the kind of men who signed on for whaling expeditions
	Information about regions to which the ship travels
	Information about how the crew spends the day waiting for whale sightings
	Information about a whale chase and kill

Links :

The Whale's Tail

The whaling gallery is a collection of images from a whole range of sources. It is intended to inform and illustrate a now (thankfully) vanished occupation and way of life that for the men so engaged was hard and often dangerous. It is intended for historical interest rather than a commentary on the ethics of whaling.

Baleen Whales