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Pre-Reading for Three Cups of Tea. Mrs. Gregovich World Geography From the “ READERS ' & TEACHERS' COMPANION TO THREE CUPS OF TEA”. Chapter One - Failure. Karakoran Range spans the borders of India, China and Pakistan It is the home to 60 peaks above 24,000 feet - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Pre-Reading for Three Cups of Tea
Mrs. Gregovich World Geography
From the “READERS' & TEACHERS' COMPANION TO THREE CUPS OF TEA”
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Chapter One - Failure• Karakoran Range
spans the borders of India, China and Pakistan
• It is the home to 60 peaks above 24,000 feet
• It is also home to K2. The second highest peak in the world at 28,251 feet (778 feet shorter than Mount Everest).
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Chapter 1: “Failure”1. Name the country where Mortenson’s parents were missionaries. (Tanzania—pg. 8)
2. From what illness did Christa suffer? (Epileptic seizures—pg. 8)
3. Why is Mortenson scaling K2? (To honor his sister Christa and to place her necklace on the “summit most climbers consider the toughest to reach on the Earth”—pg. 9)
4. What is Mortenson’s occupation? (Emergency room trauma nurse—pg. 14)
5. Heading down the mountain, an exhausted Mortenson loses site of his partner, Scott Darsney, and heads south instead of west. What supplies does he have in his purple day-pack?
(lightweight wool Pakistani army blanket, an empty water bottle, and a single protein bar—pg. 11)
11) 6. How much weight did Mortenson lose during the K2 attempt? (30 pounds—pg. 16)
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Chapter Two – The Wrong Side of the River
Gasherbrum
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Chapter Two – The Wrong Side of the Mountain
Peak Muztagh
Tower
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Chapter Two – The Wrong Side of the River
BaltoroGlacier
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Chapter Two – The Wrong Side of the River
crossing Braldu River on jula (bridge) made of vines from Askole to Korphe, northern Pakistan
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Chapter 2: “The Wrong Side of the River” • 1. Mortenson is still lost; when he awakes in the
morning, what is the first object he sees? • 2. What is unique about the song Mortenson sings as
he is begins his morning journey?• 3. Who is Mouzafer Ali?• 4. What is paiyu cha? • 5. Who are the Balti people?• 6. Mortenson, the first foreigner to arrive in Korphe,
said he could smell the village a mile away? Why?• 7. Who is Haji Ali? • 8. Describe the Korphe village
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Chapter 2: “The Wrong Side of the River”
LOCATIONS • Baltoro • Braldu River Gorge • Broad Peak • Gasherbraum
• Korphe • Muztagh Tower • Skardu
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Chapter Three – I am Going to Build you a School
Korphe, Pakistan
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Chapter 3: “Progress and Perfection”• 1. Sakina, a Balti woman, serves Mortenson
sweet tea and offers him a second cup; what is the significance of the sweet tea?
• 2. What is the significance of the quilt?• 3. The village of Korphe is located on a shelf
eight hundred feet above the Braldu River. How does the village get water to its crops?
• 4. Why do the children have ginger colored hair?
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Chapter 3: “Progress and Perfection”
• 5. What is the percentage of Korphe children who die before reaching the age of one?
• 6. Describe the Korphe School.• 7. How many girls attended the school?• 8. What did the school children use to write
their multiplication tables?
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Chapter 3: “Progress and Perfection”
LOCATIONS • Karakoram • Korphe • Islamabad • Siachen Glacier • Skardu
VOCABULARY • chapatti • chogo rabak (big rams) • goiters • kwashiorko • lassi • prelapsarian
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Chapter Four: Growing Up
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Chapter Four – Growing Up
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Chapter Four Growing Up
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Chapter Four – Growing Up
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Chapter 4: “Self Storage”
• 1. Back in Berkely, California, Mortenson goes to his storage unit. Who is GiGi?
• 2. Mortenson’s parents exhibit humanitarian qualities; what two projects dominated their lives?
• 3. Why was Mortenson “beat up” on his first day in an American School?
• 4. What was happening to Mortenson when Christa died?
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Chapter 4: “Self Storage”
• On pg. 35, it say…”the family was billeted by their Lutheran missionary society in a Greek gun dealer’s sprawling cinder-block home…” what does billeted mean?
On page 44, it says “At four-thirty in the morning , they were descending a glacier where they had bivouacked for the night…”
What does bivouacked means?
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Chapter Five – 580 Letters, One Check
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Chapter 5: “580 Letters, One Check”
VOCABULARY • behemoths • divestment • frugality • vertiginously
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Chapter Six – Hard Way Home
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Chapter 6: “Rawalpindi’s Rooftops at Dusk”• 1. How many hours did it take Mortenson to get
from San Francisco to Islamabad?• 2. How many tea shops were visited before
Mortenson was allowed to purchase the cement?• 3. Why did Mortenson feel guilty for ordering two
sets of shalwar kamiz from the tailor?• 4. What did Mortensen ask Manzoor Khan, the
tailor, to teach him?• 5. What is Shahada?• 6. When trying on his new clothes, what mistake
does Mortenson make?
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Chapter 6: “Rawalpindi’s Rooftops at Dusk”VOCABULARY • charpoy • chokidar • diatribe
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Chapter Seven – Korphe at Last
“… but maybe , in Balistan, a poor section of a poor country, anyone from the United States seemed so rich that people imagined he could give them everything.”
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Chapter 7: “Hard Way Home”
• 1. What creature was painted on the tailgate of the truck?
• 2. Why did a large crowd gather as the truck was being loaded?
• 3. In 1968, the Karakoram Highway (KKH) was “christened” what?
• 4. What is the Sisyphian process?• 5. Reaching the Dasu Bridge, the truck is
stopped by whom?
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Chapter 7: “Hard Way Home”
LOCATIONS • Gilgit • Indus Gorge • Khunjerbad Pass • Kohistan • Naked Mountain • Nanga Parbat • Rawalpindi
VOCABULARY • fatalism hashish • hewing • madrassas • phalanx • rakish • salaamed • shahid