Vocabulary
Reading 1
Reading 2
Reading 3
Reading Strategies
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to stop attending school or college
drop out
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Who is the reading about?
Steve Jobs
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Who created the special effects for Star Wars?
George Lucas
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What is the main idea of paragraph 1?
Teamwork is necessary to create a something successfully.
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How can you predict the author's point of view?
By reading the title of a text
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to show disdain or contempt; scorn something; hate
spurn
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Why did Steve Jobs drop out of college?
He didn't want anyone to tell him what to do.
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Who bought the Lucasfilm group?
Steve Jobs
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What is the first trait people should look for when they hire someone?
Intelligence
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When you take notes as you are reading, where should you write these notes?
In the margins.
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to take and rear (the child of other parents) as one's own child, specifically by a formal legal act
adopt
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Where did Steve Jobs start the Apple company?
In his garage.
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Who bought Pixar from Steve Jobs?
Disney Studios
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What is another quality that employers should look for besides intelligence?
Competitiveness
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What is another reading strategy you can use to predict content?
Read the first paragraph
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to introduce something new; make changes in anything established
innovate
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Whom did Steve Jobs start the Apple company with?
Steve Wozniak
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What movie made Pixar a phenomenal success?
Toy Story
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What do you call the limit of somebody's ability to endure everything?
Pain threshold
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What is skimming?
Quickly reading the topic sentences of each paragraph to get the main idea
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to lay waste; render desolate; destroy
devastate
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What was Steve Jobs' advice in the conclusion of his 2005 Stanford speech? Explain it.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
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What did Steve Jobs see about Pixar that others couldn't see?
Potential.
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What is the boss's role?
To make sure the organization is going in the right direction and to act with integrity.
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What should you do to remember who the important people in a text are?
Circle the names of the important people
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