Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze literary non-fiction in order to improve reading comprehensive skills.

DO NOW

These climbers risk their lives for the chance to accomplish something very few people in the world ever have - standing on the "top of the world." What would inspire you to risk everything?

Direct Instruction

View 25 facts about Everest - write down 5 of them in your notebooks

Independent - 

Read pages 224-226 - complete all side bars through 226. Be sure that you answered all questions from past two days to be collected at end of class. These can be handwritten or on a NEO. Questions are once again listed below.
1. How does POV affect your interpretation of this article?
2. Explain one event that caused a specific effect.(maybe Harris helping Krakauer with oxygen tank). What might have happened differently?
3. What was ironic about the weather that day?
4. Pick a sentence that we read that shows the author's style is Formal. Then rewrite the sentence in your own words.
5. Identify a few sentences that make you feel anxious (mood). What words make you feel that way?
6. Why does the author change his style of writing to short, concise sentences on page 225 - lines 215-220?

View documentary. Write down 3 questions you have about Mt. Everest and climbing it.

Check for understanding

Review sidebars through page - 222

Closure

Discuss the Questions generated by students and plan to research the answers on Friday.

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