Rewards of Failure
Rewards of Failure
Lesson duration is: 50 minItems in this lesson
Rewards of Failure
Lesson Outcome
By the end of this class:
You will have practiced exam type questions.
Before you read…..
In 1914, British Explorer Ernest Shackleton led an expedition to Antarctica, hoping to be the first person to cross the continent. Within months, his ship, the Endurance, became trapped in ice. Shackleton’s goal changed from the completion of his expedition to the survival of his crew. In the end, he managed to lead all 27 of his men to safety.
Was Ernest Shackelton’s expedition to Antarctica a success or failure?
Why?
Discussion
Can you think of any famous failures?
What happened?
Why were they not successful?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLYECIjmnQs
Gist
What is the passage mainly about?
Success and fear are basically the same thing.
Failure is always followed by success.
You may need to fail before you can succeed.
Accepting failure is very difficult.
Main Idea
What is the main idea of paragraph 2?
Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner’s scary experience in Nepal.
Failure is a reminder that not everything goes perfectly all the time.
Failure shows us that not everyone can succeed.
Failure can show us that we need more preparation.
Main Idea
What is the main idea of paragraph 4?
Up to 90% of all drug experiments fail.
ABN AMRO bank encourages entrepreneurship.
Eli Lily and Company has failure parties.
The business world has already learned the benefits of negative results.
Specific Details
4. How many times did Pete Athans fail to reach the summit of Everest?
4
5. Who was the first woman to summit all 14 of the world’s 8000-meter peaks?
Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner
6. True or False: While climbing in Nepal, there was an avalanche and 2 climbers did not survive.
True
How do you know?
Because the text says “Luckily, she survived, but two Spanish climbers died.
Specific Details
7. Why did ABN AMRO bank start an Institute of Brilliant Failures?
Give 2 reasons.
To encourage entrepreneurship.
To learn more about what works and what doesn’t work.
8. Which company has failure parties to study data about drugs that don’t work?
Eli Lily and Company
9. Which device from Apple started as a failure and became one of its biggest successes?
Apple Newton
Inference
Inference
11. “It seems things are slowly changing, notably in the fields of business and science.”
Is this sentence a fact or opinion?
How do you know?
Inference
12. The reading says that failure and success are two sides of the same coin. What do you think this means?
Context Clues
13. The word refine (paragraph 2) means ____________ .
unchanged
make better
rethink
fail
14. The word reluctant (paragraph 4) means ___________ .
unable
happy to
not wanting to
refuse to
Critical Reading
True or False: People cannot be successful without first having failed.
How do you know?
Please provide evidence from the text and use your background knowledge to support your answer.
Review
What did you learn in this session?
Do you usually have problems with this?
Do you find this easy or difficult?
