Vocabulary
What is innate?
An argument and arguing is the same concept?
What is false?
Are there prefixes with multiple meanings?
What is true?
Who is Lewis talking to in his graduation speech?
Who is... Princeton Graduating Class of 2012?
Understood but not directly stated.
What is implicit?
How many parts compose an argument?
What is four?
Where can you find a prefix?
What is... at the beginning of a word?
Why did Lewis quit his high paying job?
What is to write a book?
Putting strong emphasis on talent or natural ability does what?
What is... makes people fear failure?
A companion or associate.
What is cohort?
Define Claim:
What is... The statement of the writer’s position on an issue or problem.
Identify the prefix and state its definition.
Just about time I think the two of you are making progress, something like this comes up.
What is... progress. Definition- gradual betterment.
What did Lewis learn from observing the baseball teams?
What is... manager's often forget the role luck actually plays into the performance of the player?
What two categories does the author divide learners?
What is... fixed mindset/ growth mindset?
What is... helpless/mastery oriented?
Able to be shaped or molded.
What is malleable?
What is a counterargument?
What is... Arguments that anticipate possible opposing views and answer them.
Identify the prefix and state its definition.
Eating meat would be completely atypical for a vegetarian.
What is... atypical. Definition:not typical.
What does arbitrarily mean?
What is... something determined by chance?
Explain the fixed mindset.
People make errors due to their ability, which is something they cannot change.
To bring into existence.
What is engender?
Define evidence.
What is... Details that support the reasons, such as facts, quotations, examples, statistics, and expert views.
Identify the prefix and state its definition.
You know me well enough to know that what other people think doesn't influence how I behave.
What is... influence? Definition: the power to cause changes without directly forcing them to happen
Lewis says he never wants his audience to g=forget something.
What is... Everyone is lucky but don't feel entitled because of it.
Explain the growth mindset.
What is... intelligence constantly grows through study and hard work?