Steve Jobs This unit was created by the Louisiana Department of Education in partnership with LearnZillion. It includes approximately 36 days of instructional materials including classroom-ready materials, assessments, graphic organizers, and texts.

Jaguar Jumpstart Write each sentence. Circle the direct object and underline the indirect object. Write the definition of direct object. Write the definition of indirect object.

Thus Far... We have read several texts that explore different definitions of success and failure.

Today, We will…. 3 What does that mean?

This will help to prepare us for TN-Ready. Today, We Will…. Read a passage which we have never seen before, and then try to answer some hard questions about it. This will help to prepare us for TN-Ready. 3

And let’s hope our thinking skills…. …are better than hers!

Read it more than once to become very familiar. Take 10 minutes to read the excerpt from J.K. Rowling’s speech entitled The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination. Read it more than once to become very familiar. 3

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How do you think you did? Let’s find out! .

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Let’s Watch J.K. Rowling’s Commencement Speech… …given at Harvard University in 2008

Let’s Close… …