Chris McCandless rejects a traditional path of success and instead defines success on his own terms through freedom, experience, and personal meaning. Reflect on what success means to you at your current stage in life. In the response, explain how success is currently defined (grades, college acceptance, achievements, happiness, etc.) and where those ideas come from. Then, consider whether that definition truly reflects personal values or if it is shaped by expectations from family, school, or society.

 Prompt: Chris McCandless rejects a traditional path of success and instead defines success on his own terms through freedom, experience, and personal meaning. Reflect on what success means to you at your current stage in life. In the response, explain how success is currently defined (grades, college acceptance, achievements, happiness, etc.) and where those ideas come from. Then, consider whether that definition truly reflects personal values or if it is shaped by expectations from family, school, or society. 

Prompt Response:

What success means to me at my current stage in life is passing my classes, turning in the work in time, and getting good grades. Success is currently defined by a sense of fulfillment and accomplishment, it brings happiness and leaves a positive impact. I'm considering that the definition is shaped by expectations from family, school, or society, because it can either be from high paying jobs, prestigious schools, marriage, etc.

Summary:

Today we turn in our work from yesterday, the open ended questions based on chapter 8, after we all passed over our work to Mr. Rease, he gave each one of us a sheet of questions from other students. We had 15 minutes to complete that and after the time ran out, he took our answers and continued to give us another 2 sheets to work on. Both of these would be based on chapter 9 and 10, we had an hour to complete it and to turn them in before 3:10. The whole class managed to finish in time and did exactly what Mr. Rease expected.

Reflection:

I can reflect that I was like speed, finishing the assignment and trying to think it through with a time limit, it made me feel quite accomplished for the day. 

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