"A View from Mount Ritter"

Both climbed a mountain and lived to write about it. Compare the reflections of college-bound high school senior Joseph T. O'Connor to those of professional writer Jon Krakauer.

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 11 Unit 4's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: Self-Reliance, Where I Lived, poems about transcendental thinking, All I Really Need to Know, Into the Wild (excerpts), Into the Wild, A View from Mount Ritter, multi-genre research project sample, Sparky, Charles M. Schulz