Reminders Outliers Reading Schedule – be sure to keep up with your reading! The introduction and chapters 1-2 are due tomorrow. Outliers First Reading Quiz – tomorrow, 11/15

Film Clip: Success As you watch the clip for today, consider the following: 1. What do you notice? (see/hear/feel/believe) 2. What are the two most important moments in this scene? How does the director choose to film them? Why? 3. How does the Chris Gardner define success?

Focus Statement Today, the topic is success and the goal is to initiate and participate in collaborative discussions to construct a definition of success and make new connections in light of the evidence and reasoning presented.

Unit Three: The Secret of Success Carousel Questions In groups, you will be rotating to different chart paper with questions. Write your response to the question on the chart paper Synthesize the information at your group’s original station – write it on a blank piece of paper and tape to the front of chart paper (analyze everyone’s responses and come up with one coherent answer) Now, as a group construct a definition of success

Unit Essential Questions: How is our definition of success constructed?  How has society’s definition of success changed or remained the same? Why do some people excel and others don’t? In the face of adversity, what causes some people to prevail while others fail?

Outliers – Introduction – Reading Focus Questions “The Roseto Mystery” Who are the Rosetans? Why are they outliers? How could this be an analogy of what an outlier is? What tone and thesis/main argument are hinted at in this chapter?

What is the book Outliers about? There is a story that is usually told about extremely successful people, a story that focuses on intelligence and ambition. Gladwell argues that the true story of success is very different, and that if we want to understand how some people thrive, we should spend more time looking around them-at such things as their family, their birthplace, or even their birth date. And in revealing that hidden logic, Gladwell presents a fascinating and provocative blueprint for making the most of human potential. *www.gladwell.com/outliers

Reading Outliers Outliers is a nonfiction book. You will need to read this book in a slightly different way than you are used to. I will post study questions for each chapter – it is up to you whether you do these questions or how you use them. I will not collect them, but remember that your quizzes will be mostly factual and detail-based for this book. You will need to look for: main ideas (his claims) supporting evidence (his evidence) explicit and implicit message (his interpretation) ethos, pathos, logos (how he uses rhetoric)