Personal Credo

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Personal Credo

• Setting Goals and Living Dreams

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BELLWORK

• Get a copy of Reaping the Rewards of
  Risk-taking
• Read on your own quietly and completely.
• Be prepared to share your responses and opinions
  on the text.

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Questions

• Based on the text what are the characteristics of
  a role model? According to the author, why does
  Jobss earn this title?
• What is the definition of innovation? What things
  increase the odds of creating it?

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Goals

• I CAN cite strong and thorough textual evidence
  to support what the text says explicitly as well
  as inferences drawn from the text.
• I CAN initiate and participate effectively in a
  range of collaborative discussions with diverse
  partners on topics, texts, and issues, building
  on others ideas and expressing my own ideas
  clearly and persuasively.
• I CAN produce clear and coherent writing in which
  the development, organization, and style are
  appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

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• Steve Jobs benefited from taking risks in his
  life.
• complete graphic organizer with a partner

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Bellwork (5-8 sentences in comp. book)

• At the end of the commencement speech, Steve Jobs
  tells the graduates to Stay hungry. Stay
  foolish.
• What is he calling you as the next generation to
  do? Why is it important for you to act as he did?
  Use textual evidence to support your opinion.

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Defend or negate the following statement

• Steve Jobss life and innovations will have
  far-reaching effects on our future.
• Read Steve Jobs Imitated, Never Duplicated
• Complete Graphic Organizer

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Bellwork (5-8 sentences)

• Discuss at least two ways in which Mr. Jobs was a
  nonconformist.
• How did his nonconformity change the world we
  live in?
• How will it shape our future?
• Again, use textual evidence to support YOUR
  opinions (use your graphic organizer from
  yesterday).

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Listen to Jobss speech and respond to the
following question

• Jobs doesnt sugar coat the fact that we all must
  die do his statements about death affect the way
  you think about life? Use examples from the text
  to support your opinion.

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Personal Credo Essay

• Describe your own personal credo in detail. Why
  are these beliefs important to you?
• Why do you feel it is important to stick to these
  beliefs?
• Do you think your credo will change as you grow
  older? How do you see it evolving? What actions
  or events might change it?
• How will this credo help shape your future and
  the world?
• Incorporate any information from our study of
  Steve Jobs that may have influenced your credo.

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Expository Writing Assignment

• Describe what you think Steve Jobss legacy to
  the world is.
• What lessons has his life taught you? What might
  you do differently in the future based on these
  lessons?
• Use textual evidence to support your opinion.