Transcript Quick write: In your CNB Fully describe a goal or dream

QUICKWRITE IN YOUR CNB
1.
Fully describe a goal or dream that you are
working toward.
2.
What is the purpose of this goal?
3.
What are the steps necessary to attain your
goal?
4.
What strengths do you possess that will help
you along the way?
“A DREAM DEFERRED”
BY LANGSTON HUGHES
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over –
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
PAULO COELHO
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Born in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil in
1947.
His parents had him
institutionalized in a
mental hospital (3
times) for wanting to
pursue his dream of
becoming a writer.
PAULO COELHO
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Became rebellious and
got involved in the hippie
movement in the 1960’s.
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Wrote popular Brazilian
rock songs.
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He was imprisoned and
beaten by a military
dictatorship.
PAULO COELHO
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He then decided to tame his radical
behavior.
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He had a spiritual awakening in Spain and
wrote about it in his first book The
Pilgrimmage(1987).
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He was 38 when he published his first
book.
PAULO COELHO
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His second book, The
Alchemist, has made
him famous.
ALLEGORY
A representation of an abstract or spiritual
meaning through concrete or material forms.
 The Alchemist is an allegory about following
your dreams.
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Setting: Spain and Egypt
THE ALCHEMIST
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Introduction
•WHAT ARE THE FOUR
OBSTACLES THAT COELHO FEELS
YOU WILL FACE WHILE TRYING TO
REACH YOUR “DREAM?”
Find
the obstacles in the introduction, write them
below your quick write, and challenge yourself to see if
you have faced these or foresee yourself facing them.
4 OBSTACLES TO OVERCOME BEFORE YOU CAN
ACHIEVE YOUR PERSONAL LEGEND
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We are told from childhood onward that
everything we want to do is impossible.
Love
Fear of the defeats we will meet on the path.
The fear of realizing the dream for which we
fought all our lives.
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“Universe is conspiring in our favor, even though we
may not understand how” (vii).
“The secret of life is to fall seven times and to get up
eight times”(vii).
Personal Legend = your destiny
INSPIRATIONAL VIDEO
SIMPLE THING
“It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only
wise men are able to understand them” (15).
What is a simple thing in your life?
REVIEW
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Predict how Paulo Coelho’s life experiences
could have possibly contributed to his writing
of The Alchemist.
THE ALCHEMIST
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Personal Legend =
Destiny
Our job is to pursue
our personal legend
despite the many
distractions placed in
our path
LESSONS OF THE ALCHEMIST
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Trust your heart
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Read the seemingly
inconspicuous signs
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Understand that as you
look to fulfill a dream, it
looks to find you, if you
let it
Sometimes you can find
extraordinary in the
ordinary.
PROLOGUE
THE STORY OF NARCISSUS
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Once upon a time, there was a boy called Narcissus. He was
the son of a god and he was very, very handsome. Many
women fell in love with him, but he turned them away. One of
the women who loved Narcissus was a nymph called Echo.
Echo could not speak properly - she could only repeat what
was said to her, so she couldn't tell Narcissus that she loved
him. One day, when Narcissus was walking in the woods with
some friends, he became separated from them. He called
out "Is anyone here?" Echo replied "Here, Here". Echo
stepped forward with open arms, wanting to cuddle him. But
Narcissus refused to accept Echo's love. Echo was so upset
that she left and hid in a cave, until nothing was left of her,
except her voice.
THE STORY OF NARCISSUS CONTINUED…
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The Maiden, a goddess, found
out about this, and she was very
angry. She made Narcissus fall
in love with himself. When
Narcissus looked at his
reflection in a pond one day, he
fell in love. He stayed on that
spot forever, until he died one
day. Where he died a flower
grew, and that flower is called a
Narcissus.
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QUESTIONS
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audio version of The Alchemist
COOL VIDEOS
Pharrell and The Alchemist
 Coelho and Oprah
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