1. Collection 1: Chasing Success

2. Unit Essential Questions
Is the individual or the community responsible for an individual’s success? How does culture shape our concept of success? Does fate determine how successful we can be? How can our thoughts limit our success? How can reading with/against the grain help us think about texts?

3. Performance Assessment: Team debate
In teams of 3, you will study one side of an argument and represent it in a debate
There are three steps: collecting data, writing for you role, and speaking in the debate
Roles: opener, questioner, closer
You receive an individual grade, but complete the assignment on a team
Use professional language and demonstrate an ability to “gracefully disagree”
The topic: Should students have shorter summer vacations?

4. The texts Marita’s Bargain- essay about the effect of summer vacation
Kewauna’s Ambition- story of a girl with intense dedication
Don’t Eat Fortune’s Cookie- Graduation speech about fate and luck
The Secret to Raising Smart Kids- Science article about the psychology of success
Extras:
A Right to Choose Single Sex Education- Opinion piece about the benefit of single sex schools
Next Term, We’ll Mash You- Short story about an unfortunate boy in a very fortunate family

5. The Myers-Briggs test
Personality test that categorizes people into 16 personality types
We start here because it is important to think about how texts relate to you. This activity will give you insight into how you think and feel, which will play out in the texts we read.

6. Instructions
Get fresh notebook paper. Head it with your name, date, and title “MB test”
Number your paper to 70, but place the numbers like the example.
3. Begin taking the quiz, but make sure your answers are next to the correct number.
4. Find your personality on the handout. Write a paragraph that answers the following question: “Did this test accurately represent you? What was right about it, and what was wrong?”

7. Your results
Look at column 1. Count the number of as and bs. If you have more as, write E. It bs, write I.
Look at columns 2 and 3. Count the total number of as and bs. More As =S, More Bs = N
Do the same for columns 4 and 5, 6 and 7. Look at the back for the proper letter.

8. E/ I
Extraversion- Prefer to focus attention on the outside world, the “real world” Introversion- prefer to focus attention on the inner world, the “self”

9. S/N
Sensing- Prefer to focus on information that is immediately received Intuition- prefer to focus on interpreting information and adding meaning to what is received

10. T/F
Thinking- When making decisions, tends to think about the logical aspects
Feeling- When making decisions, tends to think about the people involved or how they feel about it

11. J/P
Judging- Prefers to make unchanging decisions, prefers living in accordance with consistent observations
Percieving- prefers to allow room for change in decisions, prefers living “in the moment”

12. ENFJ- the Giver
Live externally, deal with life according to how it makes you feel People focused Main interest in giving love, support, and understanding

13. ENTJ- The executive
Live externally, with logic
Natural born leaders

14. ENFP- The inspirer Focused externally, rely on intuition
Passionate, warm and friendly
Can talk their way out of anything

15. ENTP- The visionary Focused externally, rely on intuition
Largely concerned with understanding the world or their environment

16. ESFJ- The CArgiver
Focused externally, rely on your personal value system
Loves people, great at reading others and great at being liked
Good at making people feel good about themselves

17. ESFP- the performer Focused externally, rely on your five senses
Driven to have new experiences and meet new people
Love to be the center of attention

18. ESTJ- The guardian Focused externally, rely on logic
Live according to a higher power/ system of rules or laws
Expect others to also have laws they live by

19. ESTP the doer Focused externally, rely on the five senses
Concerned with doing rather than contemplating, “hands on”

20. INFJ- the protector Focused internally, rely on intuition
Live in a world of hidden meanings and possibilities
Complex, live according to a system, but system is based on what feels right, not just logic
Only 1% of tested population have this type, the rarest type

21. INFP- the idealist Focused internally, rely on personal value system
Focused on making the world a better place
Concerned with finding their meaning in life
Tend to be perfectionists

22. INTJ- the scientist Focused internally, rely on intuition
Live in a world of ideas and strategies
Value intelligence, knowledge
Have high standards for self and others

23. INTP- the thinker Focused internally
Live in a world of possibilities, the “what if” person

24. Isfj- the nurturer Focused internally Value harmony and cooperation
Sensitive to other people‘s feelings

25. Isfp- the artist Focused internally
Live in a world of sensation possibilities, keenly aware of how things smell, taste, look, feel
Will live with what feels right, will rebel against what doesn’t

26. Istj- the duty fulfiller
Focused internally
Quiet, reserved
Value peaceful living, serious and task driven

27. Istp- the mechanic Focused internally
Want to understand how things work
Uses logic in practical applications
Less interested in theories, “hands on”