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Investigation Task Cards are a way we are learning more about Afghanistan and Pakistan, the countries where Greg Mortensen works

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Following, you will find the quizzes we have done so far in class:



Take home quiz for chapters 7-10: Choose 10 questions to answer. Due April 7th.

Quiz for chapters 11-13. This was a take-home quiz for Delta.

Due dates: Chapters 1-3 Delta: Wednesday, March 10th Alpha: Friday, March 12th Omega: Friday, March 12th

Due MARCH 18th: Chapters 4-6 YRE Chapters 4-8, pp. 34-95

Due March 25th, Thursday YRE- Chapters 7, 8, 9, 10 Non-YRE Chapters 8, 9, 10--pp. 95-124

Due April 8th: YRE - Chapters 11, 12, 13 non YRE - Chapters 11, 12

Due April 15th YRE- Chapters 14, 15, 16 non YRE - Chapters 13, 14, 15, 16

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In this first chapter, Greg Mortenson finds himself lost and alone in the world's second highest mountain, with his little sister's necklace on the pocket and a single thought in his head, failure. He was determined to honor his sister, who had passed away from meningitis in Tanzania, and by climbing K2 and leaving her necklace at the summit. Greg had come very close to achieving his goals, and now he can't remember when last saw a human being. He realizes that he will have to spend the night in the cold rocks, with little water and a protein bar. When all of his team was fast and flexible, Greg was slow and heavy, and because of his size he carries food, oxygen and fuel. Greg had passed seventy days on the mountain, Mortenson and his friend Scott Darsenay, rescued their temmate Etienne from the mountain who was suffering from pulmonary edema, Greg helped him because of his nurse experience, and now he is the one who needs help, lost. Greg Mortenson realizes his body failed not his spirit, everybody has limits.
 * Ana Paula Kabbani- Chapter 1 review**

Milena Farber- Chapter 1 Review:

Chapter 1, //Faluire// explain about Greg Mortenson that was walking down to Baltoro a mountain ice, with the cold ice underneath him and while walking he saw Scott Darsey a friend of the expedition with the objective to reach K2. Greg was ready to go on the second-highest mountain carrying Christa`s amber necklace. They helped Etienne Fine because he was sick, with his lung fluid. The night was coming and Greg was walking but he didn’t realize that he wasn’t seeing the trail. He need help, but when the sun set he went to the mountain with the purpose finding someone because his group was too far, caring no much food. Greg was risking his life, he knew that being on night alone was very dangerous.

Milena Farber- Chapter 2 Review: The sun was up and Greg Mortenson woke up with problems: almost not breathing, later on he was obsevating while he saw a man, but the man was too faraway from him, Greg became exited and run toward he man. Greg noted that the man he saw was Mouzafer Ali, a friend, they were so glad to see each other because they didn’t have seen each other for years. Mouzafer and Greg went down to see if there were any threes. After getting the wrong turn in Baltoro Mountain, he got a wrong turn again but he stops at a village, Greg meets the chief of the village, Haki Ali. Haki gave Greg food and Haki invited Greg to stay in village to rest, Greg went sleep in Haki village. 

Milena Farber- Chapter 3 Review:

Greg started to walk in the village, while walking he saw that people around him didn’t have so much food so that while babies died before getting older, Mouzafer was over there and he take his own objects. Greg, the caring guy got his objects: blankets, jackets and other objects that would favorable to those guys that didn’t have anything. Greg becomes shocked about the way children’s study because the math class was wrote on the floor with sticks. Instead of climbing K2 and to leave his sister amber necklace, his discovers that the most important thing was to create a new school for those children’s. Greg promised to Haji we would create many school to make those children’s intelligent.

Milena Farber- Chapter 4 Review:

Greg learned to speak Swahili, born in Mennesota, his parent named Irvin( Dempsey) and Jere worked as a teacher at girl`s school on Africa ( Tanzania). Dempsey want to create a hospital for childrends to lean being a doctor, even Dempsey was a hardworker he teach hospital personallities in Tazani. Jere was a hardworker too but she worked at a school aredy created.Montenson`s family have celebrated all holidays. Mortenson`s family was composed by Fari, Sonja, Jay ,Chista ( sisters), his parents and him. Greg inspiration was Chirsta because when Chista needed to take vascines, she became very bad with headcache, vomit...Greg stayed with Christa until he didn`t went to USA to study. Without money his parent decided to transport him to US.Army were he was supposed to learn being a doctor on Germany. He went to South Dakota without money but he gott money and sent to his parents.But Denpsey died will illness in 1981. Greg very exhausted, he went to Indiana University to learn human body, because he wanted to describe was illness did his sister Christa had California he went learn to climb and being a nurse to help others. He called his mother in Christa`s bithday an he said for Greg he would go to a movie that Christa loved but when Jene went see Christa for he to wake up she was death.IN 1993 he went to Pakistan for the promised to build a school.

Milena Farber -Chapter 5 Review:

Greg knew everything exept building a school, Greg wanted to time something at a computer but he didn`t knew how. He saw Syed who help him to make letters and send to people to help him, sendin 580 letters. He asked for his mother and he knew she was at River Falls at a Elementary School, she pleased Greg to come and discuss with student abou life in Korphe.Thoose students started a ``Pennies for Pakistan``collecting 62,345 pennies. Throught 580 letter he gotted ONE RESPOND BACK from Tom Browak attended the University of South Dakota checking one hundred dollars. He knew that would be better in one sotrage and not a building with many apartaments. He said to Tom Vaughan this idea who wrote an article a book Korphe promise. Jean Hoerrni was a mountain climber too, creating a new precess to store information on computer chips becaming very rich. He saw Tom Vaaughan article and went directly call him, and he wanted to know the cost but Greg saud about the material needed and how many room it woud have but Tom wanted the price and he said. Twelve thousand dollars. He have all money for school but he need to go to Pakistan soldind his book and othres that was old from his father and finally his car was sold, and he went to Pakistan with an taxi waiting there.

Milena Farber- Chapter 6 Review:

Greg was at Rawalpindi and he went to the same hotel he went when we was supposed to climb K2. Abdul Sahah, the watchman of the hotel and waked up Greg to ask why he was coming back. Greg explained all to Abdul, they became friends and Abdul helped Greg to buy the materials.In the store, the owners was dscusting with them about the price but they said that was for school, with many conversation their was times to drink cups of tea. Greg asked where was Islam and he Abdul tell him to pray. They putted the material at the truck, but they were searching the level and the plumb line and said to the driver keep it carefull, was time to Greg go and he sayd bye to Abdul, and Abdul responded with a pray, he was feeling like a king. Getting closer to the mountain he gettet colder, they were rocks in the ground and the truck was balancing.Greg was closed to Skardu, a city and the school was getting finished.Truck was going down on the street, and Greg said to the driver to take truck to office of Mohammed Ali Changazi. Greg tell Changazi the project of the school and he answered that was a good act of him, Greg received a invite to slep at Changazi office. Akhmalu, cooker of K2 expedition remebered Greg to go to Khane village and he went. They said Greg come to do a school, but wasnt that, he was going to do a school for childrens to learn how to climb. The morning was up and Greg insisted Changazi send him to Skardu, he said ok. Greg asked where were his material and he asnswer something completely diferent. Greg was mad he cried as he didn`t crient until Christa was death but then he stopped criyng and lookedup and saw childrens. Suddenly a boy about eleven years ask him who he was but all children knew and started laughing. But all students said their names, when Changazi find him and said he need to talk but Greg didn`t wonted until he didn`t take him to Korphe.When a girl said: 6 time 6= 36, and Changazi ask greg to build the school over there but he said NO.

Stephanie Bader- Chapter 1 review:

Greg Mortenson was lost in the second highest mountain of the world: K2. He was climbing K2 because he wanted to leave the amber necklace of his sister Christa in the peak of the mountain, in honor to her. Christa died in july, 1992, when she was 23 years old. Greg and Darsney, his fellow mountain climber, didn’t realize that they had taken a wrong turn and got lost from the rest of the group. They met and hired two porters Mouzafer Ali and Yakub to help them go down the mountain to a safe place where they could spend the night. Greg got apart from Darsney and the porters because he was walking too slow. He took a wrong way and reached a top of a slope where he decided to spend the night.

Stephanie Bader- Chapter 2 review:

Greg Mortenson woke up after the troubled day he had. After walking a little bit he saw a man far away, he shouted but the man didn’t hear him so he walked as fast as he could in the direction that the man was. When he got close to the man he realized that the man was Mouzafer Ali. Greg and Mouzafer Ali were excited to see each other. Together they got down the mountain until they could see threes. Greg got the wrong turn again and without knowing he went to a different village and met Haji Ali, the leader of the village. He gave him food, explained him where the village that he meant to go was and told him that he could stay in his village to rest and then Greg slept.

Stephanie Bader- Chapter 3 review:

Greg Mortenson woke up and started to walk in the village. He realized that the people had barely nothing to eat and that many children died before they complete their first year of life. He found Mouzafer Ali again and got back his personal belongings. Greg started giving his things as flash light, jackets, blankets and other little objects that could be very useful to the people in that village of Pakistan. In the following days he asked Haji Ali to show him where the children studied, when he saw the place he was so badly impressed because they learned sited on the floor with a stick making mathematics drafts in the floor. At that moment he realized that it wasn’t so important to climb the K2 and leave the amber necklace to honor his sister but instead it would be much more important to honor his sister by helping to build a school for the children in that village. Greg made a promise to Haji Ali that he would build a school for them.

Stephanie Bader- Chapter 4 review:

When Greg was only three months old he and his family went to Tanzania because they needed teachers there. After the family moved to a city called Moshi, Christa was born. When Christa was small she took a shot of smallpox vaccine and she had a serious bad reaction. In Tanzania, Greg´s father helped create a learning medical center called Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre. After that, Greg and his family returned to the United States where he did his high school and university. After his father’s death and Christa’s death. Greg was called to participate in K2’s climbing and to honor Christa he accepted.

Stephanie Bader- Chapter 5 review:

Greg did ever thing he could to help the school in Pakistan, he sent 580 emails to people he knew that might want to help the children in Pakistan, from those 580 emails there was only one person interested .His mom was a director of a school in the USA and he went to this school and spoke with the children. They understood was he was talking about and created a program named “pennies for Pakistan” but it was not enough. Greg got in contact with his friend that wrote an article in a newspaper. A rich mountain climber called him and said he was interested to help. After a week a check of the money he needed arrived in his mail box but he needed money to return to Pakistan so he sold everything that belonged to him: his car and some old books that belonged to his father and finally he got a taxi to the airport to return to Pakistan.

Stephanie Bader- Chapter 6 review:

Greg arrived in Pakistan and got all the supplies that he needed to build the school. He put everything in a truck with a driver and went up to the mountain until he reached the village of Khane. There, he needed to rent jeeps to go to Korphe. The man that could rent him jeeps to go to Korphe didn’t want to do so because he wanted Greg to build the school in Khane but Greg became very mad because of this idea and then he discussed with that man that finally rented him the jeeps.

 Stephanie Bader- Chapter 7 review:

Greg got to Korphe after a long jeep ride he had crossed the river and met the Korphe people but when he said he had all the things to build a school they said that it was more important to build a bridge first and then Greg was shocked.

 Stephanie Bader- Chapter 8 review:

Greg decided that he would go home to try to get more money to build a bridge for Korphe but when he got home he didn’t get good news, he lost his job and his girlfriend was dating another boy. But when he got a call from Lou Reichardt telling him that it was not easy to build a school but he could get it done Greg was no longer sad, Lou Reichadt was a big inspiration to Greg. Greg called Jean to see if he could afford to pay more to build a bridge in Korphe.

Stephanie Bader- Chapter 9 review:

Greg got the money he needed and went back to Pakistan then he bought all the supplies he needed to build a bridge, he got to Korphe and said that the supplies were on their way but they were too far because it was raining and they would take some days to get up to Korphe, but the Korphe villagers went walking to get the supplies to the bridge it took them 12 hours to go and another 12 hours to come back. But while it was raining they could not put the cement in the bridge in that kind of weather so the villagers invited Greg to hunt ibexes, a type of animal. It took them some days to hunt ibexes but when they returned with a lot of ibexes to share with all the community the weather was already good and they could start to build the bridge.

Stephanie Bader- Chapter 10 review:

Greg and the villagers helped to build the bridge and a man named McCown wrote an article about Greg. McCown stayed next to Greg for a few days asking what he was trying to do and how his work was, but a few days later he went away. Finally the bridge was done and Greg promised to Hussein that he would build the school in a field that belonged to his wife if Hussein would be the first teacher. Greg was preparing himself to go back to the USA to get enough money to return to Korphe in the summer.

Stephanie Bader- Chapter 11 review: Greg went to Jean’s house to show him a picture from the bridge as he asked him. Then McCown invited Greg to a fancy dinner in a hotel, when he got there McCown said to him that he would give him some money like a “salary”. When he was in this hotel a woman that knew what Greg was trying to do met him and in that moment they felt in love with each other immediately. Six days later they got married and Greg went to Pakistan again.

Stephanie Bader- Chapter 12 review: When Greg was in Skardu he dind’t find Changazi because he wasn’t in the city but he knew a man called Parvi that helped him a lot with the materials to build the school, but when he got to Korphe he was disappointed because there was no foundation and he could not build a school without it. When Greg was in Korphe he didn´t find much change in the school construction. Greg got back to the USA and realized that Tara was pregnant and he spend some time with Jean and Jean gave him the idea that he could build a school in each different village in Pakistan. Greg loved the idea and when he got back to Pakistan again he became the director of Central Asia Institute and he hired Mouzafer and Parvi.

Stephanie Bader- hapter 13 review: When Greg got to Korphe after he had planned the building of the school he was nervous because he didn’t want to disappoint Jean, but one day Haji Ali sat with him in a place where he could see the mountains and said that even though these people didn’t have an education he could learn many things from them. Haji Ali also explained to him that when you drink the first cup of tea with someone else you are a stranger, in the second you become a friend and in the third you are from the family. Later, when the people of Korphe were building the school five strangers crossed the bridge, one of them was Haji Mehdi the leader of another village he said to Haji Ali that it was prohibited to the girls to go to a school, but if Haji Ali gave him twelve rams that was an animal kept by the first born of each family he would allow the girls to go to the school. Haji Ali accepted the request and gave him the rams. Then Haji Ali said to Greg that he dind’t know how to read but he wanted to do something for the children in Korphe to have an education.

Stephanie Bader- chapter 14 review When the school of Korphe was mostly done Greg decided to move to another village to see if they wanted a school and he got to another city. He was now the director of Central Asia Institute. Greg went to a city to find someone from a village and he finally found someone that could take him to the village but that person couldn’t take Greg there so he asked to a driver that lived in a closer village to take him there .When he arrived in the village Haji Mirza invited him to go to his house. He accepted the invitation, drank a cup of tea and slept there. In the following day he woke up with a lot of men talking and he noticed that he was kidnapped. The men took Greg to a room and kept him locked. Greg was worried because Tara was pregnant and the baby would get born in one month. After some days a man that spoke a little English got there and after a short conversation asked him if he wanted to play soccer, so after a long time in a room he got outside to watch two men playing soccer. In the next day the men let Greg out and put him on a truck and he was not sure where he was going.

Stephanie Bader – chapter 15 review Greg went back to the United States right in time to see his daughter called Amira Eliana. When Hoerni called saying that he had blood cancer and he would die soon and he wanted to see the Korphe school finished, Greg went back to Korphe finished the building of the school, took a picture and went to the hospital that Hoerni was staying, gave him the picture and Greg became his nurse. One month later Jean Hoerni died and he donated one million dollars to keep doing the job that they started.

Stephanie Bader- chapter 16 review Greg took Tara and Amira to Pakistan, Korphe to participate in the inauguration of the school. When Tara and Amira left Pakistan Greg went to Skardu, in his hotel there were a lot of people that wanted to talk to Greg. When a man told Greg his history that he was the chief of the village of Hushe and he had to walk very far to get an education, Greg decided right away that he would build a school there. Greg was still building a school in Mouzafer’s village and in other places too. In those villages he built a center for women to talk when it was winter and many others schools.

Stephanie Bader-Chapter 17 review:

Greg arrived in Skardu to try to find people that he could help. He heard that a village close to Skardu had a bombing attack and because of that many people of the village died. The survivors walked a lot of time to arrive in Skardu to see if they could find a new home, but the only place they got was a place that no one wanted to live there because it was very close to the airport and it was not a good place, there was no water close and they would live in a camp because there was no house. Greg decided to help them, he would try to build a school and bring them food. Greg built a school for the girls, and the boys went to a public school in Skardu.

Stephanie Bader-Chapter 18 review:

Greg needed more money to the CAI because although Jean Hoerni was a very good man he did not leave enough to build all the projects. Greg travelled to many states in the USA to see if someone could help. He gave many speeches and Greg put an envelope to see if the people could help, in one of the speeches no one sat down when Greg started talking except three men that sat in the last row, when Greg was getting the envelopes one of them gave a lot of money. Greg got a son .Greg read a book of business because he wasn’t a good business man.

Stephanie Bader-Chapter 19 review:

Greg was in Zuudkhan with McCown because McCown donated money to the CAI and he and his family wanted to see how the projects were. In the middle of the night a person of the village waked Greg up and said that a village called New York was attacked by Osama, at that time McCown wanted to get a plane for him and his family but he was not able to do that. After some time Greg and the McCown family got to Changazi village to have an inauguration of the school, after that the McCown family got a plane and Greg went to Korphe, then Twaha told Greg that Haji Ali died.

Stephanie Bader- Review Chapter 20: Faisal Baig was right about the Osama Bin Laden terrorist attack to the Twin Towers. He was advised by the American Embassy that the Americans should leave Pakistan and Afghanistan, but he refused to do so and he continued visiting the projects of the CAI. He got many e-mails telling him that he should stop doing his work. Greg almost gave up but Tara convinced him to keep doing his work. Greg met a man from Afghanistan that asked him to build a school in his village, but Greg needed to ask the CAI board if they would let him help this man, but he told him that after September 11 it would be very difficult to help him. Greg went to Afghanistan to a city where the America n Army was because he thought it would be safer, but he realized that the place was dangerous with bomb fragments and noises of guns. In this city Greg met Urza, a woman that the director of the school. She asked Greg to help her rebuild the school that was partially destroyed and to help her with some money because she was not receiving her salary for many months. Greg return to the US and gave some speeches in order to raise funds to the CAI. He met a woman named Bono that introduced him to the politicians in Washington DC, where he made a speech.

Stephanie Bader- Review Chapter 21:

Greg returned to Korphe in 2002. Kevin Fedarko, a reporter, came with him because he wanted Greg to help him in Pakistan, while he was covering the war between India and Pakistan. When they got to Korphe Greg met a young woman named Jahan, she was Haji Ali granddaughter. She was that first woman among 600 habitants of the village that studied in the school built by Greg. She spoke with Greg and impressed him very much with her strength. She told him that she wanted to become a doctor and she needed money for her tuition in the school in Skardu and Greg gave her the money. Kevin Fedarko saw the conversation and was very impressed too. When they got back to New York Fedarko wrote an article in the Parade Magazine about Jahan and the CAI work. The article was a success and Greg got comments and letters from a lot of states of the US and from twenty other countries. He received many donations and a lot of support to the CAI. He raised over one million dollars. Greg went back to Pakistan and saw Jahan again,. She told her that her dream was to build a Hospital in Korphe. Greg thought how proud her grandfather Haji Ali would be of her.

Stephanie Bader- Review Chapter 22: Greg took a plane to go to Afghanistan and met the Afghanistan’s king on the plane. He told Greg that they didn’t see many years Americans going there and the king gave him his business card. Greg went to Kabul to travel to the village of the horseman who waist six days to go where Greg was. He got a truck, a driver and a translator to drive him to that village but when they were in their way they stopped because they were in a middle of a gun fire and they hided Greg in that place and got back to Kabul. In the next day Greg was alone and without food and his luggage because he had left them in the truck. Greg found a man that was called Sardhar Khan that lived in the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, exactly where the horseman that Greg wanted to see lived and presented himself to Sardhar Khan who got very happy because a friend of his had told him about Greg, and they started to discuss where they needed a school.

Daniella Mouadeb Daniella Mouadeb Daniella Mouadeb- Greg and Haji ali's wife crossing a cultural boundary by shaking hands

Chapter 1 Freddy Berakha K2

Chapter 2 Korphe children lining up to shake hands with Greg. Chapter 3 The school in Korphe as Greg promised.

Chapter 4.

Moshi is located in the northeast part of Tanzania, where Greg grown up.

Chapter 5. Jean Hoerni, the only reply Greg received. Jean gave Greg the twelve thousen dollars he needed to build the school at Korphe.

Chapter 6.

City of Skardu. Greg didnt have luck at Skardu and Khane, the village ignored him and tried to make him construck the school in/for their villages.





Greg Mortenson- Milena Farber Greg Mortenson( right to left on the back of the photo) with the tribal chiefs of Urozgan province in Afghanistan, a Taliban stronghold where his institute established the first girls high school-Milena Farber

Greg Morteson with his son Khyber and his daughter Gultori in the school located in Pakistan.- Milena Milena Farber

Tatiana Cohab Usually people judge others without priorly knowing them. Usually people take care of their selves before taking care of others. Usually people have no tolerance. Usually people have the urge to do things fast... But not this man! Haji Ali, is a man I can say that I admire. Fist of all, by the way he treated Greg the first time he went to Korphe. Do you remember how Greg described himself? He was dirty, smelly, looked odd, and felt restless. Would //anyone// put a foreigner, a stranger who looked, smelled, and felt this way to sleep in their house? Probably not.. Haji Ali did, as soon as he saw Greg he invited him for a cup of tea, and only after he was clean and confortable he asked what was going on, then he gave him good stuff to drink and to eat and gave the best place he had for him to sleep. This man believed tolerance was the most important trait a person could have. Along with many other things that make this man such a special person.

Chapter 13 review- Larissa Rahmani

Greg was building the school, and onde day Haji Ali said for him that he could learn even with people who didn't have an education. Haji Ali also told Greg about his first lesson, the three cups of tea lesson. The fist cup of tea means, you are a stranger, the second means you are a special guest and the third means you are part of the family. He taught Greg that they did everything for their families, even die. After a while, when the people of Korphe were building the school, five strangers passed the bridge, and on of them was Haji Mehdi, the leader of another village. He told Haji Ali, that if he didn't give him 12 rams, he would not let the girls of Korphe go to the new school, because all girls are prohibited to study according to their religion.Haji Ali gave him 12 rams, and for him was a really good choice, because of that Greg could continue biulding the school. He would not have this rams anymore, but he would have something much better, the new school.