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BY: STEVE JENKINS
The Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest
Question of the Day
�What is the biggest physical challenge you have successfully met?
Listening Comprehension
Such Great Heights
�Magazine Article �Magazine Article � Gives information about a topic
� Sometimes share experiences from someone’s life
Fact and Opinion Fact and Opinion
� A fact is information that can be proved to be true.
� An opinion is a thought, feeling, or belief about something.
Focus Skill
be true.
� 93% of Americans eat AT LEAST one pizza
per month.
belief about something.
Pizza Hut’s brand of pizza is the BEST!
Fact and Opinion
Statement Fact or Opinion?
Evidence
Junko Tabei is the best role model young female
Opinion Can’t be proved; others may consider another role model young female
athletes could ever have. may consider another athlete a role model
Junko Tabei became the first woman to climb Mount Everest.
Fact Can be proved by checking a reference
source
Vocabulary
�Summit
Accustomed
�Essential
Secure�Accustomed
�Streamlined
�Secure
�Acclimate
Summit
� A mountain’s summit is its very top!
Accustomed
� If you are accustomed to something, you are used to it because it has been a regular part of your life.
Streamlined
� A streamlined design is efficient and has no unneeded parts.
Essential
� Something that is essential is absolutely necessary
FoodFoodFoodFood
Cell Phone
Secure
Acclimate
� If you acclimate to something, you adjust to a new condition or environment.
Genre Study
Expository Nonfiction
� Tells about real people, places, or events.
As you read, look for:
� Vivid words and details describing a place
� Facts and information about people’s experiences
Question of the Day
� In addition to food, clothing, and shelter, what do you think is essential
to life? Why? to life? Why?
Question of the Day
�What is your opinion about
mountain climbing? mountain climbing?
Question of the Day
�What might be a good career for a
person who likes to climb? person who likes to climb?
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