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    This document discusses incorporating elements of project-based learning into a unit on The Alchemist by Pablo Coelho. It proposes having students create a personal legend and life map to reflect on their purpose and goals. Other ideas include having students illustrate major life events on a life map and create a digital presentation and video about their personal legend. The document seeks feedback on how to improve these assignments and further incorporate investigation, autonomy, and problem-solving to support project-based learning.

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    This document discusses incorporating elements of project-based learning into a unit on The Alchemist by Pablo Coelho. It proposes having students create a personal legend and life map to reflect on their purpose and goals. Other ideas include having students illustrate major life events on a life map and create a digital presentation and video about their personal legend. The document seeks feedback on how to improve these assignments and further incorporate investigation, autonomy, and problem-solving to support project-based learning.

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    Project Based Learning

    The Alchemist
    English 2
    What is PBL?

    Edutopia. (2014). Five keys to rigorous project-based learning. Retrieved April, 2019, from
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnzCGNnU_WM
    Do you currently use
    any elements of this
    In your own words, teaching theory in
    summarize the main your own practice?
    concepts of Project
    Can you see a place
    Based Learning where you can easily
    implement it?
    The Alchemist by Pablo Coelho

    The parable of a young boy, Santiago, who is inspired by a dream to journey to


    Egypt in the interest of finding buried treasure. Along the way, he meets kings,
    merchants, women, and a mystical Alchemist, while learning valuable life
    lessons with each encounter.

    This book will inspire our students to see life as an incredible


    journey, where omens are guiding them to fulfill their
    dreams and achieve personal greatness!
    Standards and Objectives
    Learning Standards
    CCSS RL 1: Use textual evidence to support analysis

    CCSS RL 2: Identify the development of themes

    CCSS RL 3: Analyze character development

    CCSS RL 5: Analyze the structure of a text

    CCSS RL 6: Analyze the perspective of a different culture

    Sonora Character Standards: Develop traits of independence, integrity,


    responsibility, and empathy
    Standards and Objectives
    Learning Objectives

    Students will analyze the parable for overall meaning, primary


    themes, and applicable life lessons.

    Students will create a personal legend and life map in order


    to determine and reflect on their purpose in life, their main
    goals, and the character traits of the person they wish to be.
    Dialectical Journals for each
    chapter:

    1.  Summarize Plot


    2.  Determine Setting
    What we’ve done 3. 
    4. 
    Trace Character Development
    Determine Santiago’s Steps on
    in the past: the Hero’s Journey
    5.  Trace Theme Development
    with Quote & Commentary
    6.  Connect to a Life Lesson in the
    Chapter
    Dialectical Journals for each
    chapter:
    Reflect: 1.  Summarize Plot
    Do you feel like 2. 
    3. 
    Determine Setting
    Trace Character Development
    this would be 4.  Determine Santiago’s Steps on
    the Hero’s Journey
    effective for your 5.  Trace Theme Development
    with Quote & Commentary
    students? 6.  Connect to a Life Lesson in the
    Chapter
    2017-2018 Results:
    Completion Average: 70%
    Grade Average: 67%
    Engagement: Low
    Success: NO!
    How can we incorporate
    the ideas of Project Based
    Think Tank: Learning into this unit to
    increase student learning
    and engagement?
    New Ideas: Guiding Questions

    ➔ What is my purpose in life?

    ➔ What are my major dreams and what steps


    do I need to take to achieve them?
    Students illustrate and label every
    major event in their life in order to
    create a map of where they came
    from and where they want to go.
    Life Map They then discuss:
    Assignment 1.  WHY each event is important
    2.  HOW it led to the next step of
    their journey
    3.  WHAT they learned from it

    Link to Life Map Directions:

    Life Map Assignment


    Students answer guiding questions:

    1.  What is your life’s purpose?


    2.  What are your main goals?
    3. 
    + 
    What are your core values?
    5 other prompts of their choice
    Personal Legend
    They create a digital presentation
    Video Project
    for their responses and then video
    record their presentation

    Link to directions & rubric:

    The Alchemist PL Project


    Conclusion:
    How can we improve these assignments in order to increase
    student learning and engagement?

    How can we further incorporate the concepts of


    investigation, autonomy, and problem-solving into this unit in
    support of Project Based Learning?
    THANK YOU!
    Please visit the following link to take
    the survey:

    Google Form

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