Nonfiction post-assessment

Summarize "The Race to the Top of Mount Everest."

When summarizing remember to:

include more than one main idea carefully select details to support each main idea keep your summary brief write about the ideas in the text, not your own opinions.

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.9

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

What is the text structure of the story?

• cause and effect

• descriptive

• sequence

• compare and contrast

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

What is the main idea of paragraph 4?

• Some groups didn't make it to the top of Mount Everest because they didn't have enough oxygen.

• Two climbers made it almost to the top of Mount Everest, abandoning their climb only 300 feet from the top.

• Edmund Hillary and Tenzig Norgay were the first two people to successfully climb to the top of Mount Everest.

• Although previous groups had tried to climb to the top of Mount Everest, they faced too many problems and did not succeed.

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

The main idea of paragraph 5 is that Norgay and Hillary were successful at climbing Mount Everest for multiple reasons. What detail supports this main idea?

• They practiced using an ice pick.

• They took photos at the top.

• They planted flags.

• They looked for the bodies of other climbers that had died trying to get to the top.

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

Read the following sentence:

"Two climbers who set out right before Hillary and Norgay turned around because of exhaustion. They were 300 feet from the peak, less than the length of one football field."

What does the word exhaustion mean in this sentence?

• bored

• extremely tired

• sad

• lack of grit

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4