1. Who was the first African-American to climb Mount Everest and what is this person’s other accomplishments?
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This lesson is designed to teach the Common Core State Standard: Reading—Informational Text
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.3 Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.5 Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.9 Compare and contrast the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.
Nell Bang-Jensen is a teacher and theater artist living in Philadelphia, PA. Her passion for arts education has led her to a variety of roles including developing curriculum for Philadelphia Young Playwrights and teaching at numerous theaters and schools around the city.
She works with playwrights from ages four to ninety on developing new work and is especially interested in alternative literacies and theater for social change.
A graduate of Swarthmore College, she currently works in the Artistic Department of the Wilma Theater and, in addition to teaching, is a freelance actor and dramaturg. In 2011, Nell was named a Thomas J. Watson Fellow and spent her fellowship year traveling to seven countries studying how people get their names.

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4. Black History Month – Sophia Danenberg
Who was the first African-American to climb Mount Everest and what is this person’s other accomplishments?

5. Black History Month – Sophia Danenberg
Who was the first African-American to climb Mount Everest and what is this person’s other accomplishments? 1
Web Search
Who was the first African-American to climb Mount Everest? 2
What other mountains had this person climbed before Everest? 3
Web Search/Thinking
How has this person demonstrated a love for the outdoors in other ways? 4
How is this person’s climb of Mount Everest described? What made it particularly difficult? 5
What is this person doing today?

6. Black History Month – Sophia Danenberg
Who was the first African-American to climb Mount Everest and what is this person’s other accomplishments?
5 minutes

7. Black History Month – Sophia Danenberg
9/11/2018 2:43 AM
Black History Month – Sophia Danenberg
Who was the first African-American to climb Mount Everest and what is this person’s other accomplishments? 1
Web Search
Who was the first African-American to climb Mount Everest? 2
What other mountains had this person climbed before Everest? 3
Web Search/Thinking
How has this person demonstrated a love for the outdoors in other ways? 4
How is this person’s climb of Mount Everest described? What made it particularly difficult? 5
What is this person doing today?
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8. Black History Month – Sophia Danenberg
9/11/2018 2:43 AM
Black History Month – Sophia Danenberg
Who was the first African-American to climb Mount Everest and what is this person’s other accomplishments? 1
Web Search
Who was the first African-American to climb Mount Everest? 2
What other mountains had this person climbed before Everest? 3
Web Search/Thinking
How has this person demonstrated a love for the outdoors in other ways? 4
How is this person’s climb of Mount Everest described? What made it particularly difficult? 5
What is this person doing today?
(Possible queries: “first African American to climb Everest”, “Mount Everest climbing records”).
From
In 2006 Sophia Danenberg became the first African American and first black woman from anywhere in the world to climb the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest in the Himalayas.  
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9. Black History Month – Sophia Danenberg
9/11/2018 2:43 AM
Black History Month – Sophia Danenberg
Who was the first African-American to climb Mount Everest and what is this person’s other accomplishments? 1
Web Search
Who was the first African-American to climb Mount Everest? 2
What other mountains had this person climbed before Everest? 3
Web Search/Thinking
How has this person demonstrated a love for the outdoors in other ways? 4
How is this person’s climb of Mount Everest described? What made it particularly difficult? 5
What is this person doing today?
(Possible queries: “Sophia Danenberg, climbing records”, “Sophia Danenberg biography”).
From
Mount Tasman (New Zealand), North Shoulder, December Ama Dablam (Nepal), SW Ridge, November Grand Teton (Wyoming, US), Exum Ridge, September Mount Katahdin (Maine, US), Armadillo, July Mount McKinley (Alaska, US), West Rib (attempt ~16,200 ft), June Aconcagua (Argentina), Polish Direct (attempt ~21,000 ft), December Aconcagua (Argentina), False Polish, December Iztaccihuatl (Mexico), Ayoloco Glacier, November Mount Kenya (Kenya), SE Face (attempt ~16,500 ft), December Cotopaxi (Ecuador), Normal (attempt ~18,700 ft), November Illiniza Sur (Ecuador), La Rampa (attempt ~16,800 ft), November Mount Shuksan (Washington, US), Sulphide Glacier, June Mount Baker (Washington, US), North Ridge, June Mount Rainier (Washington, US), Emmons-Winthrop, June Kilimanjaro (Tanzania), Western Breach/Arrow Glacier, December 2001
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10. Black History Month – Sophia Danenberg
9/11/2018 2:43 AM
Black History Month – Sophia Danenberg
Who was the first African-American to climb Mount Everest and what is this person’s other accomplishments? 1
Web Search
Who was the first African-American to climb Mount Everest? 2
What other mountains had this person climbed before Everest? 3
Web Search/Thinking
How has this person demonstrated a love for the outdoors in other ways? 4
How is this person’s climb of Mount Everest described? What made it particularly difficult? 5
What is this person doing today?
(Possible queries: “Sophia Danenberg biography”, “Sophia Danenberg work”).
From
Danenberg studied environmental sciences and public policy at Harvard University, graduating in 1994, before going on to Keio University in Tokyo as a Fulbright Fellow. Danenberg then began her professional career with United Technologies in Japan and China, managing energy and indoor air quality projects, before moving to Hartford, Connecticut where she worked in green technology research programs at United Technologies.  
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11. Black History Month – Sophia Danenberg
9/11/2018 2:43 AM
Black History Month – Sophia Danenberg
Who was the first African-American to climb Mount Everest and what is this person’s other accomplishments? 1
Web Search
Who was the first African-American to climb Mount Everest? 2
What other mountains had this person climbed before Everest? 3
Web Search/Thinking
How has this person demonstrated a love for the outdoors in other ways? 4
How is this person’s climb of Mount Everest described? What made it particularly difficult? 5
What is this person doing today?
(Possible queries: “Sophia Danenberg Mount Everest climb”, “Sophia Danenberg, Everest trek”).
From world/:
She withstood bad weather during the night that delayed some other climbers in her party. The high altitude of the Himalayans can create strong wind forces, not to mention below freezing temperatures, cold enough to freeze contact lens to the corneas of the eyes; cold enough to freeze spit from ones mouth, in a matter of seconds.  She was not alone in her ascent. Like Sir Edmund Hilary before her, she had the most trusted and experienced of mountain-climbing guides in the world to assist her when Ms. Danenberg stood on top of the tallest mountains in the world. Pa Nuru Sherpa and his brother Mingma Tshiring were the only climbers to witness the triumphant event. Her oxygen mask clogged, still reeling from frostbite on her cheeks, and enduring the effects of bronchitis, Ms. Danenberg made her way into the history books of many firsts.
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12. Black History Month – Sophia Danenberg
9/11/2018 2:43 AM
Black History Month – Sophia Danenberg
Who was the first African-American to climb Mount Everest and what is this person’s other accomplishments? 1
Web Search
Who was the first African-American to climb Mount Everest? 2
What other mountains had this person climbed before Everest? 3
Web Search/Thinking
How has this person demonstrated a love for the outdoors in other ways? 4
How is this person’s climb of Mount Everest described? What made it particularly difficult? 5
What is this person doing today?
Possible queries: “Sophia Danenberg today”, “Sophia Danenberg biography”).
From
Danenberg, who had as of 2008 climbed 19 peaks, is now responsible for legislative and regulatory affairs for Global Environmental, Health, and Safety (EH&S) at United Technologies’ Pratt & Whitney division. She is currently pursuing a master’s in economics at the University of Connecticut, as well as working with Hartford, Connecticut inner city programs. Most recently, Danenberg campaigned for Democratic Party Candidate Barack Obama in the 2008 Presidential Election and became a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
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