1. Setting Goals and Living Dreams
Personal Credo
Setting Goals and Living Dreams

2. 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.

3. Questions
Based on the text what are the characteristics of a role model? According to the author, why does Jobs’s earn this title?
What is the definition of innovation? What things increase the odds of creating it?

4. 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.

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

6. 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.

7. Defend or negate the following statement:
Steve Jobs‘s life and innovations will have far-reaching effects on our future.
Read “ Steve Jobs: Imitated, Never Duplicated”
Complete Graphic Organizer

8. 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).

9. Listen to Jobs’s speech and respond to the following question
Jobs doesn’t 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.

10. 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.

11. Expository Writing Assignment
Describe what you think Steve Jobs’s 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.