Literature through the Lens of Mindset

Aim: How do we interpret literature through the lens of mindset psychology? 

Quick Write: Remember independent reading? Interpret the main character in your novel using the framework of mindset. Does the character have a fixed or a growth mindset? Explain why.

Natasha (Honey) Abreu will be happy to know that we are embarking on a new unit in which we will be reading literature. Still, once you get into a "mindset" mindset, it's hard not to see everything through that lens. 

Step 1: There are five open-ended essential questions guiding us through this unit. Think about these questions as you continue to learn more about the psychology of the mind. 

Essential Questions

How do we define a hero through the lens of mindset?

How do we define failure through the lens of mindset?

Which in your opinion is more of a person and why? A body without a mind or a mind without a body?

What is the relationship between thinking and identity?

How is the human mind different from the animal mind?

Choose one of the essential questions and answer it as best you can in complete sentences. Remember, there are no wrong answers here. (The only wrong answer is NO answer!)

Step 2: Remember critical lens? Choose one of the quotes below, interpret it, say whether you agree or disagree and connect it to at least one book you have read.

1. Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed no hope at all. Dale Carnegie
2. Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Samuel Johnson
3. It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. Confucius
4. You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. Margaret Thatcher
5. Dreams don’t work unless you do. John C. Maxwell
6. Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. Thomas Watson
7. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. Theodore Roosevelt
8. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. Albert Einstein
9. Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. Joshua J. Marine
10. Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success. Oscar Wilde
11. Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not. Virgil Garnett Thomson
12. Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. Henry Ford

Argument essays are due!!!!!!

Standards

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.1
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2
Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.