Quickwrite in your CNB

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Quickwrite in your CNB

• Fully describe a goal or dream that you are
  working toward.
• What is the purpose of this goal?
• What are the steps necessary to attain your goal?
• What strengths do you possess that will help you
  along the way?

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Plan for today

• Analyze poems in groups, present, discuss.
• Background on author of The Alchemist
• Simple Things

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Roles for Groups

• 1.) Choose or assign roles
• -Reader
• -Leader
• -Secretary
• -Deliverer
• 2.) Reader - Read the poem out loud to the group.
• 3.) Each person will then read it independently.
• 4.) Leader Read each question and guide the
  discussion.
• 5.) Secretary Record your groups answers from
  the analysis sheet.
• 6.) Deliverer Be prepared to deliver your
  analysis to the class.

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Paulo Coelho

• Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1947.
• Parents had him institutionalized in a mental
  hospital (3 times) for wanting to pursue his
  dream of becoming a writer

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Paulo Coelho

• Became rebellious and got involved in the hippie
  movement in the 1960s.
• Wrote popular Brazilian rock songs.
• He was imprisoned and beaten by a military
  dictatorship.

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Paulo Coelho

• He then decided to tame his radical behavior.
• He had a spiritual awakening in Spain and wrote
  about it in his first book The Pilgrimmage(1987).
• He was 38 when he published his first book.

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Paulo Coelho

• His second book, The Alchemist, has made him
  famous.

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Fable

• Short narrative that makes a moral point.
• Usually involve legends about supernatural or
  mythical characters or events.
• Typically use animals.
• Ex. The Tortoise and the Hare
• The Alchemist is a fable about following your
  dreams.

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Setting Spain and Egypt

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The Alchemist

• Introduction

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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.

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Simple Thing
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Review

• Predict how Paulo Coelhos life experiences could
  have possibly contributed to his writing of The
  Alchemist.