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Into Thin Air
Keynote Address
Vocabulary
Name that quote
Random/past units
100
What mountain was Jon climbing?
What is Mount Everest
100
Keynote Address Speaker
What is Barack Obama
100
Define Respect
*Answers vary*
100
"Reaching the top of Everest's supposed to trigger a surge of intense elation"
What is Jon Krakauer in "Into Thin Air"
100
Who is a Big Blue Ox?
What is Babe
200
What does Jon have to use to breathe?
What is bottled oxygen
200
What type of speech is the keynote address?
What is a persuasive speech
200
Define Perseverance
What is sticking to a purpose
200
"Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty."
What is Barack Obama in the Keynote Address
200
The story of a person's life, written by that person
What is an autobiography
300
What is the Method of descending down a mountain, used by Jon?
What is Rappelling
300
What does "I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper" mean?
What is the fundamental belief that we can pursue individual goals and still come together as one American Family
300
Define optimism
What is hopefulness
300
"Climbing along the blade of the summit ridge, sucking gas into my ragged lungs, I enjoyed a strange, unwarranted sense of calm."
What is Jon Krakauer from "Into Thin Air"
300
What is the form of poetry that tells a story often as a simple song with rhyming words and a refrain?
What is a ballad
400
About half an hour above the South Summit, where did Jon arrive?
What is Hillary Step
400
What is the "Legacy of our Forebearers?"
What is a gift from those who came before us
400
Define Decorum
What is proper behavior/ etiquette
400
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
What is The Declaration of Independence
400
Define Skirmish
What is a small battle
500
What are climbing irons, steel spikes attached to a climber's boots, called?
What are crampons
500
What is the author of this speech running for?
What is the U.S. Senate
500
Define Venerable
What is Aged/Respected
500
E pluribus unum
What is "Out of many, one"
500
What is a story from the past with larger-than-life characters who have unreal adventures?
What is tall tales