Read the passage about the Titanic.

Time and Place of Events during the Sinking of the Titanic
4) 12:45 a.m. – The first rocket is fired.
5) 12:55 a.m. – Fifth Officer Lowe bawls out the head of the steamship line.
6) 12:55 a.m. – Major Peuchen proves a yachtsman can be a seaman.
7) 1:10 a.m. – Mrs. Isidor Straus refuses to leave her husband.
8) 1:20 a.m. – Ben Guggenheim appears in evening clothes to go down like a gentleman.
9) 1:25 a.m. – Steward Ray remembers he persuaded a family to sail on the Titanic.

–A Night to Remember,
Walter Lord

What organizational pattern does the passage follow?

description
chronological
cause and effect
comparison and contrast