Prompt #1 Define what do you think it means to "dream?"

Rd. and Discuss Larry Chengges poem Follow Your Dreams

Gallery Walk of Quotes/discuss responses

Prompt #2 What was your favorite quote from the gallery walk and why? (listed on front page of dream packet)

Read-Great Achievement begins with a Dream

Take notes/mark text

Prompt #3 Reflect on article Great Achievement begins with a Dream and identify what is needed to be successful.

Read Aloud A Frog Thing-take notes on cause/effect.

Prompt #4 Summarize "A Frog Thing" in 5 sentences.

View DVD clips-Usama-take notes on cause/effect

-Hank-take notes on cause/effect

-Tyler-take notes on cause/effect

Prompt #5 Select favorite clip (Usama, Hank, Tyler) Explain how the clip impacted you.

Read aloud Harriet Tubman-take notes on cause/effect-discuss findings as table group

Prompt #6 Reflect on Harriet Tubman's life. Give 3 examples of things she accomplished. Speculate why her dream kept changing.

View DVD clip-Failing Forward-take notes on cause/effect

Prompt #7 List an example of one person from Failing Forward DVD clip, their failures and who they became. Infer what you think they may have done to become successful.

Read article-History of the American DreamTake notes

Prompt #8 Summarize what you think the American Dream is.

Select one news article below-Prodigy does not pass up practice-Swisher impressed with Wrigley-Awesome 17 yr. old

Read-take notes on cause/effect(dreams/actions)

Prompt #9 Share responses from newspaper articles as a table group. Explain what is true about all of the newspaper articles? What dreams do these people have? How do they go about achieving their dreams?

View-Eusebio’s DreamTake notes-cause/effect(dreams/actions)

Prompt #10 Describe Eusebio's dream? Identify the steps for his dream to become reality?

View DVD-Pennies A Day (IZZIT)

Take notes-cause/effect(dreams/actions)

Prompt #11 Describe what motivated the women in Pennies a Day? How is their society impacted by their dreams?

View DVD-A Taste of Chocolate (IZZIT)Take notes-cause/effect

Prompt #12 How did Jimmy Lai’s dream begin in a Taste of Chocolate? Explain what it cost him to become one of the richest man in Hong Kong.

Read aloud-Buzz Aldrintake notes on cause/effect(dreams/actions)

Prompt #13 Assess why there were so many steps to Buzz Aldrin's achieving his dream.

View DVD clips o n Dream Big (T.A. Barron) take notes on cause/effect(dreams/actions)

Prompt #14 Select two of the dreams from Dream Big. Describe how they are the same/different.

Select a poem. Take notes on cause/effect (dreams/actions)

Prompt #15 Make a connection and explain using one of the poems (text to text or text to media) and one of the read alouds, video clips or articles.

View DVD clip-Jane Goodall from Dream Bigtake notes on cause/effect(dreams/actions)

Prompt #16 Explain what motivated Jane Goodall to achieve her dreams.

Complete Triple Venn diagram for text pieces.

Prompt #17 There are no short cuts to a place worth going. (AVID student) Explain.

View Martin Luther King speechMark texttake notes on cause/effect(dreams/actions)

Prompt #18 Consider the time period Martin Luther King lived. Identify what made his dream so difficult to pursue?

View DVD-Victoria’s Chance (IZZIT)take notes on cause/effect(dreams/actions)

Prompt #19 Reflect on Victoria’s Chance. What does life look like for people who cannot follow their dreams?

Complete Triple Venn diagram for Video pieces.

Prompt #20 Why do you think people work so hard to achieve their dreams?

Dream Unit test

Select biography/autobiographyBegin work on Dream Paper.

Work on Dream Paper. Edit Dream paper. Dream paper due.

Dream Unit Calendar