
Steve Jobs Speech
Authored by Marla McGhee
English
6th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Who was Steve Jobs?
A teacher
A doctor
Apple founder
Speech writer
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.2.6
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
How was Steve and Bud's experience similar?
They both grew up without their biological mother
They both were adopted
They both dropped out of college
They both traveled from one foster home to the next
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.4.3
CCSS.RL.5.3
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.7.3
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
How are Steve and Bud's experience similar?
They both took calligraphy lessons
They both were poor at one point in their life
They both were rich
They both ran away
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.4.3
CCSS.RL.5.3
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.7.3
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which rule does Steve give in his speech
Don't listen to adults
Take a calligraphy class
Drop out of college
Trust your gut
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.2.6
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
3 mins • 1 pt
Choose the evidence that does not support the following claim: Jobs dropped out of college because he thought he was wasting his parent‛s money.
“I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months."
“I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition.”
“I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down”
“all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition.”
Tags
CCSS.RI.6.1
CCSS.RI.6.8
CCSS.RI.7.1
CCSS.RL.6.1
CCSS.RI.7.8
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
3 mins • 1 pt
Choose the following evidence that does not support the following claim: Jobs was humiliated when he was fired from Apple.
“I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley.”
“And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK”
“I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down”
“I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley.”
Tags
CCSS.RI.6.1
CCSS.RI.6.8
CCSS.RI.7.1
CCSS.RL.6.1
CCSS.RI.5.8
7.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
3 mins • 1 pt
Choose all of the evidence that supports the following claim: Getting fired from Apple was one of the best things that happened to Jobs.
“I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. ”
“I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar”
“Pixar...is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance.”
None of the above
Tags
CCSS.RI.6.1
CCSS.RI.6.8
CCSS.RI.7.1
CCSS.RL.6.1
CCSS.RL.7.1
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