2015
Peak – Master
Student Packet/ Chapter Notes
Each boldfaced question should be answered as if it were an MCAS Open
Response. They will be evaluated and tracked over the course of the novel.
Due Week One, Class
Two, Pgs. 1-25:
1.
What happened to Peak’s cheek and ear?
2. What is “tagging”?
3. What punishments were given to Peak?
4. Other than Peak's punishments describe two bad events that resulted
from Peak's actions.
Due Week One, Class
Three, Pgs. 26-37:
1.
How did Peak begin climbing?
2. Describe
two reasons why the judge agreed to Peak
leaving with Josh?
3.
What do we learn about the relationship history of
Peak’s parents?
Due Week One, Class
Four, Pgs. 38-66:
1. Describe two reasons why did Zopa make the boys walk up to the Base Camp instead of ride AND carry
Due Week
Two, Class One, Pgs. 67-97: This is March 2nd.
1.
Describe the scene at the first camp.
2. Why was there a film crew on Everest?
3. What
are the positive and negative reasons for having Holly Angelo with them?
4. Explain
the Puja ceremony.
5. What
is a “Self-arrest”?
Due
Week Two, Class Two, Pgs.
98-121.
1.
Why can a Gamow Bag save a life?
2. How does Roland Smith feel
about the porters, herders, and yaks on Everest?
3. Explain how acclimatization
works.
4. Describe
two, new dangers that are depicted?
Due Week Two, Class
Three, Pgs. 122-150:
1.
What did Rolf’s letter mean to Peak?
2. What are
the results of the secret meeting?
3. Describe the lives of the Porters and Sherpas.
Due Week Two, Class
Four, Pgs. 151-172:
1.
Why is Captain Shek such a threat?
2. What is significant about Roland’s statement on p. 154. “You don’t have
to be alone,
3. What two types of changes did Holly Angelo go through?
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Due Week Three,
Class One, Pgs. 173-196:
1.
How does the phone call from Peak’s mom change him?
2. How
does Peak interfere with the family business?
Due Week Three,
Class Two, Pgs. 197-221.
1. What causes Peak and Sun-jo’s relationship to change?
What is the outcome of that event?
2. Describe life at
3. Describe
two ways how is the climbing different on the way to camps five and six?
1.
What types of changes did Peak go through physically, intellectually,
emotionally, and
2. Why did Peak change at the summit of Everest?
3. Will Peak ever go back to Everest?
Week Three, Class Four- I.S.Q.A. Writing Unit Evaluation.
Week Three, Class Four- Peak Test Blocks A and D
Evaluative-
In class Discussion- No written answers are needed.
1.
Why did Josh bring Peak with him to Everest?
2.
Why is climbing Everest not a competition between Peak and Sun-jo but a battle
against
life or death?
3.
Peak received no grades at this school. If you did not receive a grade for any
of your
work
in your classes, what would change?
4.
What does Roland mean by, “The point is that we won’t know what the story is
about
until
we know how the story ends.”.
5.
Zopa complimented Peak at the end of a climb and Peak says it was “a whole
tank of
O’s
flowing into my bloodstream.” How do compliments make you feel and why are
they
so important? Who do you most like to be complimented by?
6.
Did Joshua Woods love Peak? Was, is, he a good father?
7.
What did Peak learn from his visit to Everest?
8.
Which character will you remember the most and why?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnN3ABP5XQ4 25 Cool facts that may make you want to climb Mt. Everest.
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