The Alchemist by paul coelho
Essential Questions:
How does everything in the world conspire to help us achieve our personal legends?
What is the connection between all things in the world?
What is more important: the journey or the destination?
what is my personal legend?
Alchemist Reading Questions - google doc - make a copy and save in your own google doc, answer questions & reshare with me: [email protected]
Tuesday, October 27th
1. Quiz:
alchemy (N): chemistry
conspire (V) plot, scheme, plan, intrigue, machinate, collude,
impetus (N): momentum, propulsion, impulsion, motive force,
driving force
disinter (V): dig up (something that has been buried, especially
a corpse), discover something new
exhume, unearth, dig up, disentomb
advocate (V/N): support, stand up for...
inquiry (N): investigation, question
3. journal: What are your goals in life? How will you reach them?
Why do we have goals?
4. go over Vocab Test
5. Discuss: The Alchemist --> p. 33
6. Read: The Alchemist --> p. 47
Homework: Read The Alchemist --> p. 47 & complete i-pod worksheet OR answer reading questions
1. Quiz:
- essential (ADJ): necessary, important, vital
- derivation (N): a different form taken from original
- non-fiction (ADJ): true, real world/fact, documentary
- voice (N): author's style, narrator's perspective
- hyperbole (N): exaggeration
alchemy (N): chemistry
conspire (V) plot, scheme, plan, intrigue, machinate, collude,
impetus (N): momentum, propulsion, impulsion, motive force,
driving force
disinter (V): dig up (something that has been buried, especially
a corpse), discover something new
exhume, unearth, dig up, disentomb
advocate (V/N): support, stand up for...
inquiry (N): investigation, question
3. journal: What are your goals in life? How will you reach them?
Why do we have goals?
4. go over Vocab Test
5. Discuss: The Alchemist --> p. 33
6. Read: The Alchemist --> p. 47
Homework: Read The Alchemist --> p. 47 & complete i-pod worksheet OR answer reading questions
Thursday, October 29th:
1. quiz:
alchemy (N):
conspire (V)
impetus (N):
disinter (V):
advocate (V/N):
inquiry (N):
2. journal: Interview questions for college students:
What do you want to know about college? List 10 or more questions:
3. Learning Types
4. Personality types & Jobs for Those Personalities
5. Bring a Text to Class
6. Scary Stories in Groups
Homework: Bring a text to class on which you feel like an expert (song, poem, fairy tale, book, magazine article, video game or bike manual, fiction or nonfiction). Complete the worksheet to prepare for presenting to class & our guest college students. Link to worksheet
2. Homework: Read The Alchemist --> p. 47 & complete i-pod worksheet OR answer reading questions
3. Read Independent Book #2
1. quiz:
alchemy (N):
conspire (V)
impetus (N):
disinter (V):
advocate (V/N):
inquiry (N):
2. journal: Interview questions for college students:
What do you want to know about college? List 10 or more questions:
3. Learning Types
4. Personality types & Jobs for Those Personalities
5. Bring a Text to Class
6. Scary Stories in Groups
Homework: Bring a text to class on which you feel like an expert (song, poem, fairy tale, book, magazine article, video game or bike manual, fiction or nonfiction). Complete the worksheet to prepare for presenting to class & our guest college students. Link to worksheet
2. Homework: Read The Alchemist --> p. 47 & complete i-pod worksheet OR answer reading questions
3. Read Independent Book #2
Tuesday, November 3rd (PER. 3)
1. vocab: annotate, predestination, preordain, abashed, trajectory, teeming,
2. journal: A) Fate/Predestination:
What are your thoughts on these?
Do you believe that your life has a bigger purpose? What is it?
How can you achieve it? If not, then what motivates you? Values/Beliefs?
B) Themes of The Alchemist
4. Research a text that has similar themes to the Alchemist - computer
5. Socratic Seminar: Part 1 of the Alchemist
6. Read: The Alchemist p. 51-65
Homework: Read the Alchemist to p. 65 and answer reading questions OR i-pod
1. vocab: annotate, predestination, preordain, abashed, trajectory, teeming,
2. journal: A) Fate/Predestination:
What are your thoughts on these?
Do you believe that your life has a bigger purpose? What is it?
How can you achieve it? If not, then what motivates you? Values/Beliefs?
B) Themes of The Alchemist
4. Research a text that has similar themes to the Alchemist - computer
5. Socratic Seminar: Part 1 of the Alchemist
6. Read: The Alchemist p. 51-65
Homework: Read the Alchemist to p. 65 and answer reading questions OR i-pod
Tuesday, November 3rd (PER 4)
1. Presentation Format
2. Journal:
4. Interviews with college students & Share Independent Book Reports
Homework: Read the Alchemist to p. 68 and answer reading questions OR i-pod
1. Presentation Format
2. Journal:
- What life experiences or personal interests have made you a good reader of the text you brought to class?
- How did you develop good reading expertise in this area?
- What appeals to you the most about this writing style?
- What others kinds of reading/writing do you do outside of school?
- (journal, poetry, instruction manuals, books, etc?)
- What does this show about your learning type/personality type?
- How can you use this information to help us improve your skills in school?
4. Interviews with college students & Share Independent Book Reports
Homework: Read the Alchemist to p. 68 and answer reading questions OR i-pod
Thursday, November 5th (PER 3)
1. quiz: preordain, abashed, trajectory, teeming, treacherous
2. vocab: QUIZLET LINK
--> devout, nostalgia, intuitive, substantial, balk, treacherous, immersed, sentinel, fringe, mania, primitive, innumerable, incessantly, clamor, exultant, divination
3. journal: Write about a time when you have questioned/been "stopped/distracted" from your goals? How did you surmount these distractions?
4. Alchemist Reading Activity: In Pairs (10:00 clock partners): p. 50-68
Homework: Read the Alchemist to p. 80 and answer reading questions OR i-pod
1. quiz: preordain, abashed, trajectory, teeming, treacherous
2. vocab: QUIZLET LINK
--> devout, nostalgia, intuitive, substantial, balk, treacherous, immersed, sentinel, fringe, mania, primitive, innumerable, incessantly, clamor, exultant, divination
3. journal: Write about a time when you have questioned/been "stopped/distracted" from your goals? How did you surmount these distractions?
4. Alchemist Reading Activity: In Pairs (10:00 clock partners): p. 50-68
- summarize what happened in the pages orally with partner
- work in pairs to find the following things: write in journal
- 5 meaningful quotes and explain their significance to the text
- 5 examples of figurative Language
- 5 Discussion Questions from book thus far (p. 3-68)
Homework: Read the Alchemist to p. 80 and answer reading questions OR i-pod
Thursday, November 5th (PER 4)
1. quiz: Learning Types (x3)
2. vocab: QUIZLET LINK
--> anecdote, analogy, annotate, predestination, preordain, abashed, trajectory, teeming, mused, levanter, devout, nostalgia, intuitive, substantial, balk, treacherous, immersed, sentinel, fringe, mania, primitive, innumerable, incessantly, clamor, exultant, divination
3. journal: Write about a time when you have questioned/been "stopped/distracted" from your goals? How did you surmount these distractions?
4. Alchemist Reading Activity: In Pairs (10:00 clock partners): p. 50-68
Homework: Read the Alchemist to p. 80 and answer reading questions OR i-pod
1. quiz: Learning Types (x3)
2. vocab: QUIZLET LINK
--> anecdote, analogy, annotate, predestination, preordain, abashed, trajectory, teeming, mused, levanter, devout, nostalgia, intuitive, substantial, balk, treacherous, immersed, sentinel, fringe, mania, primitive, innumerable, incessantly, clamor, exultant, divination
3. journal: Write about a time when you have questioned/been "stopped/distracted" from your goals? How did you surmount these distractions?
4. Alchemist Reading Activity: In Pairs (10:00 clock partners): p. 50-68
- summarize what happened in the pages orally with partner
- work in pairs to find the following things: write in journal
- 5 meaningful quotes and explain their significance to the text
- 5 examples of figurative Language
- 5 Discussion Questions from book thus far (p. 3-68)
Homework: Read the Alchemist to p. 80 and answer reading questions OR i-pod
Friday, November 6th
**Qi Gong warm-up
1. quiz: devout, nostalgia, intuitive, substantial, balk, treacherous, immersed, sentinel
2. vocab: imperceptibly, capricious, immobile, prognostications, scimitar
3. Journal: Connection to Earth Elements
4. Read: p. 80-104
Homework: The Alchemist p. 80-104 & answer reading questions OR i-pod
**Qi Gong warm-up
1. quiz: devout, nostalgia, intuitive, substantial, balk, treacherous, immersed, sentinel
2. vocab: imperceptibly, capricious, immobile, prognostications, scimitar
3. Journal: Connection to Earth Elements
4. Read: p. 80-104
Homework: The Alchemist p. 80-104 & answer reading questions OR i-pod
Tuesday, November 10th
1. Quiz: imperceptibly, capricious, immobile, prognostications, clamor
2. vocab: taxonomy, reiterate, daunting, traitorous, avert, monotony, treason, entranced, unanticipated
Homework: Read the Alchemist to p. 133 and answer reading questions OR i-pod
1. Quiz: imperceptibly, capricious, immobile, prognostications, clamor
2. vocab: taxonomy, reiterate, daunting, traitorous, avert, monotony, treason, entranced, unanticipated
- copy definitions
- write sentences
- Use the words from Levels 3-6 to write your discussion questions
- (Application, Analysis, Synthesis, & Evaluation)
- summarize what happened in the pages orally with partner
- work in pairs to find the following things: write in journal
- 5 meaningful quotes and explain their significance to the text
- 5 examples of figurative Language
- 5 Discussion Questions from book thus far (p. 80-104)
Homework: Read the Alchemist to p. 133 and answer reading questions OR i-pod
Thursday, November 12th
1. Quiz: taxonomy (N): system of ranking, classification
reiterate (V): repeat, say again
daunting (ADJ): intimidating, challenging, scary
traitorous (ADJ): disloyal, has betrayed a group/country
monotony (ADJ): not changing, one tone, boring, stagnant
2. vocab: impenetrable, impassable, sirocco, commence, maktub, simum, static, beseech, invoke
3. journal: Bloom's Taxonomy & Alchemist Discussion Questions
4. Read: The Alchemist p. 133-163 (END)
Homework: Read the rest of The Alchemist and answer reading questions OR i-pod
1. Quiz: taxonomy (N): system of ranking, classification
reiterate (V): repeat, say again
daunting (ADJ): intimidating, challenging, scary
traitorous (ADJ): disloyal, has betrayed a group/country
monotony (ADJ): not changing, one tone, boring, stagnant
2. vocab: impenetrable, impassable, sirocco, commence, maktub, simum, static, beseech, invoke
3. journal: Bloom's Taxonomy & Alchemist Discussion Questions
4. Read: The Alchemist p. 133-163 (END)
Homework: Read the rest of The Alchemist and answer reading questions OR i-pod
Tuesday, November 17th
1. quiz:
3. vocab CHARADES! QUIZLET TO ALL WORDS
4. journal: Critical Review of The Alchemist
5. Discuss: End of the book
6. Prepare for Socratic Seminar on The Alchemist - Tuesday
Homework: 1. Study for Vocab Test: Quizlet
2. Prepare for Socratic Seminar:
write 5 discussion questions for book &
bring in a text (poem/song/article/video/book) that has parallel themes to The Alchemist to discuss
1. quiz:
- impenetrable (ADJ) not able to be broken through
- impassable: (ADJ): not able to be crossed/passed
- commence (V): to begin, start
- beseech (V): to beg, plead
- invoke (V): to call upon for help, command
3. vocab CHARADES! QUIZLET TO ALL WORDS
4. journal: Critical Review of The Alchemist
5. Discuss: End of the book
6. Prepare for Socratic Seminar on The Alchemist - Tuesday
Homework: 1. Study for Vocab Test: Quizlet
2. Prepare for Socratic Seminar:
write 5 discussion questions for book &
bring in a text (poem/song/article/video/book) that has parallel themes to The Alchemist to discuss
Thursday, November 19th
1. vocab: discourse: intellectual discussion, conversation
2. journal: Appreciation: Things I am Thankful For
3. Socratic Seminar: The Alchemist
Homework: 1. Socratic Seminar Reflection worksheet
2. Prepare for Vocab Quiz & In-class Essay TEST Friday:
How does everything in the world conspire to help us achieve our personal legends? (According to Coelho in The Alchemist, connect to your own life's journey, and other texts that have parallel themes...Use CDs from the text, you life, and allusions to other texts/media) **YOU MAY USE NOTES!!
1. vocab: discourse: intellectual discussion, conversation
2. journal: Appreciation: Things I am Thankful For
3. Socratic Seminar: The Alchemist
Homework: 1. Socratic Seminar Reflection worksheet
2. Prepare for Vocab Quiz & In-class Essay TEST Friday:
How does everything in the world conspire to help us achieve our personal legends? (According to Coelho in The Alchemist, connect to your own life's journey, and other texts that have parallel themes...Use CDs from the text, you life, and allusions to other texts/media) **YOU MAY USE NOTES!!
- (sub-questions)
- How do all things in the world conspire to help you reach your Personal Legend?
- What is the connection between all things in the world? (Soul/Language of the World)
- What is more important: the journey or the destination?
- What is my personal legend? How does that relate to Santiago's journey?
- How do all things in the world conspire to help you reach your Personal Legend?
Friday, November 20th
1. Vocab Quiz: Alchemist words
2. In-class Essay TEST: GOOGLE DOC LINK
Essential Question: **YOU MAY USE NOTES!
How does everything in the world conspire to help us achieve our personal legends? (Explain, according to Coelho in The Alchemist, connect to your own life's journey, and other texts that have parallel themes...Use CDs from the text, you life, and allusions to other texts/media)
(sub-questions)
2. Complete Alchemist Essay: Google Doc link
1. Vocab Quiz: Alchemist words
2. In-class Essay TEST: GOOGLE DOC LINK
Essential Question: **YOU MAY USE NOTES!
How does everything in the world conspire to help us achieve our personal legends? (Explain, according to Coelho in The Alchemist, connect to your own life's journey, and other texts that have parallel themes...Use CDs from the text, you life, and allusions to other texts/media)
(sub-questions)
- How do all things in the world conspire to help you reach your Personal Legend?
- What is the connection between all things in the world? (Soul/Language of the World)
- What is more important: the journey or the destination?
- What is my personal legend? How does that relate to Santiago's journey?
- Write a critical review of the book, discussing plot and character development, use of symbolism, figurative language, and themes. Why is this book so popular across cultures?
2. Complete Alchemist Essay: Google Doc link
"THIS I Believe" Essential QUESTIONs:
What do I believe in?
How can I impassion others towards my own beliefs?
HOw can I speak publicly on an item of my own passion, with eloquence, articulation, poise, and persuasion?
Tuesday, Dec 1st
1. vocab: This I Believe Vocab List: 1-10
2. journal: Students can choose 1 or more topics or write on…
1. vocab: This I Believe Vocab List: 1-10
2. journal: Students can choose 1 or more topics or write on…
3. "This I Believe" Introduction – website: thisibelieve.org
3. This I Believe Project Directions
4. Example "This I Believe" Essays
Homework:
- This I Believe is a 500-word essay about something that you believe in
- It was started by National Public Radio in 1950 to create a more positive public dialogue (after WWII left a melancholy state of affairs)
- There are thousands of essays & audiofiles under many themes on the website (including high school student work) to explore
3. This I Believe Project Directions
4. Example "This I Believe" Essays
Homework:
- go online to thisibelieve.org and read 5 “This I Believe” Essays on topics of interest – or read from “This I Believe” book & write a short response to each read essay
- Quote Responses/Reflections
Thursday, Dec 3rd
1. vocab: This I Believe Vocab List : 11-22
2. 4 corners debate
3. journal: Mindmap This I Believe
4. Examples of This I Believe Pieces
5. Write 1st Draft: "This I Believe" :
THIS I BELIEVE RESOURCES LINK
1. vocab: This I Believe Vocab List : 11-22
2. 4 corners debate
3. journal: Mindmap This I Believe
4. Examples of This I Believe Pieces
5. Write 1st Draft: "This I Believe" :
- Choose a theme and discuss what it is and why you believe in it
- Tell a personal story from your life
- relate it to others
- add an allusion/quote or two
- add imagery & figurative language
- diction: use good adjectives, verbs, and embellish details
- rhetorical questions
- end with a universal analysis
THIS I BELIEVE RESOURCES LINK
Tuesday, December 8th
1. vocab: This I Believe Vocab List: "poignant" --> END
2. Peer Edit "This I Believe": Link to Google Doc
4. Work on Independent Book Report: Due Friday
Homework: Complete Second Draft: "This I Believe"
1. vocab: This I Believe Vocab List: "poignant" --> END
2. Peer Edit "This I Believe": Link to Google Doc
- Switch Papers With a Peer or Edit Online (mode: "EDITING> edits become comments")
- Complete Checklist For Peer
- Edit & Revise With Self Checklist
- Conference with teacher (Ms Nicholson, Carney, Mr. Forster)
4. Work on Independent Book Report: Due Friday
Homework: Complete Second Draft: "This I Believe"
- Edit, Revise and Embellish with Editing Checklist
- THIS I BELIEVE RESOURCES LINK
Thursday, December 10th
1. journal: Final Self-Assessment of Semester
B) verbal/non-verbal techniques
2. Speech Examples & discussion
4. Work on Independent Book Report
Homework: Final Draft of "This I Believe"
THIS I BELIEVE RESOURCES LINK
2. Independent Book # 2 DUE TOMORROW
1. journal: Final Self-Assessment of Semester
B) verbal/non-verbal techniques
2. Speech Examples & discussion
- "I Have a Dream" Speech by Martin Luther King
- "On the Death of Martin Luther King" by Robert F Kennedy
- "Who Taught You to Hate Yourself" by Malcolm X
4. Work on Independent Book Report
Homework: Final Draft of "This I Believe"
THIS I BELIEVE RESOURCES LINK
2. Independent Book # 2 DUE TOMORROW
Friday, December 11th
Independent Book Report DUE!!! – Hand into box
1. Vocab Test: This I Believe Vocab List
2. "This I Believe" Speech: Ms Nicholson
3. verbal/non-verbal speaking techniques
4. Speech Examples & discussion
Homework: Rehearse: This I Believe Speech (prepare notes, or highlight speech where you will look up and make eye contact - 50 extra credit points for memorizing speech)
Independent Book Report DUE!!! – Hand into box
1. Vocab Test: This I Believe Vocab List
2. "This I Believe" Speech: Ms Nicholson
3. verbal/non-verbal speaking techniques
4. Speech Examples & discussion
- Original Oratory: America Without the Dream
- "I Have a Dream" Speech by Martin Luther King
- "On the Death of Martin Luther King" by Robert F Kennedy
- "Who Taught You to Hate Yourself" by Malcolm X
Homework: Rehearse: This I Believe Speech (prepare notes, or highlight speech where you will look up and make eye contact - 50 extra credit points for memorizing speech)
"THIS I Believe" Essential QUESTIONs:
What do I believe in?
How can I impassion others towards my own beliefs?
HOw can I speak publicly on an item of my own passion, with eloquence, articulation, poise, and persuasion?
THIS I BELIEVE RESOURCES LINK
This I believe vocab list
Thursday, Dec. 17th
8:30-10:30: 3rd period
10:45-12:45 4th period
Final Exam: Present "This I Believe" Speech
THIS I BELIEVE RESOURCES LINK
8:30-10:30: 3rd period
10:45-12:45 4th period
Final Exam: Present "This I Believe" Speech
THIS I BELIEVE RESOURCES LINK