CHAPTER 1 Violet Jessop The Story You Know Everyone knows about the sinking of the Titanic The Titanic was a ship It was supposed to be unsinkable Unsinkable means not having the ability to sink But then it hit an iceberg Icebergs are big floating chunks of ice The Titanic sank There were only about 700 survivors Survivors are people who live through something bad One of the survivors was Violet Constance Jessop But she was a special survivor She lived through three disasters at sea Unlike the Titanic Jessop was unsinkable Jessop’s life is inspiring But there’s more to her story 4
There were about 2,200 people on board the Titanic 5
CHAPTER 2 Survivor from the Start Jessop’s parents were William and Katherine William was a sheep farmer Katherine’s family had a photography business William and Katherine were married in 1886 They were Irish immigrants Immigrants are people who move from another country Things weren’t good in Ireland People were hungry They didn’t have jobs They weren’t treated fairly Many Irish people moved to the Americas That’s how they survived William moved the family to Argentina He got a job as a manager of a railroad station Jessop was born on October 2 1887 She was born in the Pampas Pampas are plains They’re flat lands without trees 6
Between 1845 and 1850 about 500,000 Irish people moved to the United States 7
