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Challenging Risks: Everest Expedition Analysis

Explore the dangers and rewards of challenging activities like mountain climbing through Erik Weihenmayer's story of climbing Mt. Everest despite being blind. Learn about nonfiction characteristics and types.

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Challenging Risks: Everest Expedition Analysis

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  1. BELL WORK: In your journal… • Have you ever wanted to try something that might be dangerous or very difficult, such mountain climbing or skydiving? Think about a challenging activity you would like to do. Make a list of reasons for and against taking the physical, mental and/or emotional risks.

  2. Elements of Nonfiction English II Mrs. McLeod

  3. Characteristics of Nonfiction • Purpose: author’s reason for writing or speaking. Common examples: • Inform • Entertain • Persuade • Perspective: viewpoint or opinion an author expresses. • Bias occurs when viewpoint is one-sided and writer distorts facts or uses emotional language to manipulate audience

  4. Characteristics of Nonfiction • Tone: author’s attitude towards the subject; conveyed through word choice and details. For example: • Formal • Amused • Angry • Style: Distinctive way author uses language—level of formality, use of figurative language, sentence patterns, etc.

  5. Voice and Persona: the personality the writer shows in his/her work • Diction: word choices the writer makes

  6. Types of Nonfiction • Essays: examines/discusses a topic, often presenting writer’s personal viewpoints and opinions • Expository: provides information, explores ideas, or explains a process • Persuasive: attempts to convince reader to take action or adopt writer’s position on an issue • Narrative: tells story of real events • Descriptive: creates an impression about a person, an object, or idea • Reflective: conveys writers thoughts or feeling about a personal experience or idea

  7. “Everest”—Erik Weihenmayer, p. 448 • Mt. Everest, highest point on Earth at almost 30,000 ft. • About 4000 people have made the attempt to climb since 1953; takes on average 2-3 months • Many fall sick and die from reduced oxygen complications or are injured/killed by falls, avalanches, extreme weather conditions, frostbite and dehydration • In 2001, Eric Weihenmayer successfully reaches the top • Eric is blind • This is the story of the final 24 hours of his adventure

  8. Vocabulary • Apprehension: anxiety • Sparse: thinly spread, not plentiful • Ambient: surrounding on all sides • Arduously: with great difficulty or labor • Detractors: those who discredit someone’s accomplishments • Parameters: boundaries or limits

  9. About “Everest” From “Farther than the Eye Can See”

  10. “Everest” p. 448

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