Professional Documents
Culture Documents
CHASING SUCCESS
UNIT ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
Is the individual or the community responsible for an individual’s success?
How can reading with/against the grain help us think about texts?
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
• 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
THE MYERS-BRIGGS TEST
• 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.
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Get fresh notebook paper. Head it with your name, date, and title “MB test”
2. Number your paper to 70, but place the numbers like the example.
1. . 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
7.
8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.
14.
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?”
YOUR RESULTS
1. Look at column 1. Count the number of as and bs. If you have more as, write E. It bs, write I.
2. Look at columns 2 and 3. Count the total number of as and bs. More As =S, More Bs = N
3. Do the same for columns 4 and 5, 6 and 7. Look at the back for the proper letter.
E/ I
• 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
J/P
• Percieving- prefers to allow room for change in decisions, prefers living “in the
moment”
ENFJ- THE GIVER
Live externally, deal with life according to how it makes you feel
People focused
• Complex, live according to a system, but system is based on what feels right,
not just logic
• Tend to be perfectionists
INTJ- THE SCIENTIST
• Focused internally
• Focused internally
• 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
ISTJ- THE DUTY FULFILLER
• Focused internally
• Quiet, reserved
• Focused internally