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?