Outliers Journal Entry Honors Requirements 2016 You must complete five handwritten, single-spaced journal entries. You can do one extra credit journal entry as well. You will turn in your work after your culminating Socratic Seminar. Each full-credit journal must be stamped on the day the chapter is discussed. Only one journal entry can earn a stamp each day.

For five of the nine chapters: During Reading: Actively read the text. You don’t have to fully do a formal critical reading process but you should underline big ideas that relate to the essential questions and annotate with questions and ideas. After Reading: WRITE A ONE-PAGE JOURNAL ENTRY in your own handwriting, using evidence from the text. Required journal components: Summarize why the case study you’ve selected to journal about from that chapter is an outlier and what can be learned Pick one or two of the essential questions and discuss how this case study responds to the question. You need to answer all five of the essential questions at least once each when you’ve finished all your journal entries.

Outliers: Essential Questions Why do some people succeed, living remarkably productive and impactful lives, while so many more never reach their potential? Is there such a thing as a “self-made” success? What are the complex ways privilege manifests in American culture? What gifts do our own history give us? How could the world benefit if more of our kids were granted the opportunities to fulfill their remarkable potential?

Essential Questions (and ideas about how to apply these questions as a response to the text):  Why do some people succeed, living remarkably productive and impactful lives, while so many more never reach their potential? Does the person (or group) in this case study reach their potential? How? Why? If not, why not? Is there such a thing as a “self-made” success? Is this case study an example of self-made success or did other factors or people figure prominently in the success of the individual or group? What are the complex ways privilege manifests in American culture? Who in this case study enjoys privilege? What specific factors privilege this person? Who does the privilege you mention alienate or marginalize? What gifts does our own history give us? This essential question allows you to reflect on the connection between the case study’s success or failure and how the factors that contribute to or eliminate their success are also present in your own life. How could the world benefit if more of our kids were granted the opportunities to fulfill their remarkable potential? What can you take from this case study as a call to action? What can people (you, educators, government, etc) do to help yourself or others fulfill their potential?

10th Grade Honors Journal Rubric  To get a “15,” your journal entry must be accurate and use evidence from Outliers be neat and legible, present several good ideas and reflections about the text be about a page long (handwritten, or typed/double-spaced) To get a “12,” your journal entry must be accurate and show general text familiarity be neat and legible present some good ideas and reflections about the text. be about ¾ of a page long To get a “9,” your journal entry must be mostly accurate and show a vague familiarity with the text, need improvement with neatness and legibility, present a few ideas and reflections about the text. be about a half-page long To get a “6,” your journal entry will display little, if any, accuracy and show unfamiliarity with the text, present few, if any, worthwhile ideas and reflections about the text. be shorter than a half-page long To get a “3,” your journal entry will be inaccurate and show unfamiliarity with the text, be sloppy and illegible,