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PLANNING INDEPENDENT LEARNING

SELECTION RESOURCES

First-Read Guide:

Nonfiction

Close-Read Guide:

Nonfiction

What’s Your Time

Perspective • Does Time

Pass?: Text Questions

Audio Summaries

Selection Audio

Selection Test

Text Complexity Rubric: What’s Your Time Perspective? • Does Time Pass?

Quantitative Measures

Lexile: 1100; 1150 Text Length: 719 words; 707 words

Qualitative Measures

Knowledge Demands

1 2 3 4 5

“What’s Your Time Perspective?” is written as popular psychology and should be accessible to students.

“Does Time Pass?” covers challenging theoretical ideas.

Structure

1 2 3 4 5

In both selections, organization of ideas is clear with logical connections. In “What’s Your Time

Perspective?,” subheadings and numbered items make it easy to navigate. In “Does Time Pass?,”

quotations break up text.

Language Conventionality and Clarity

1 2 3 4 5

Language is straightforward and contemporary, though selections describe ideas that are

theoretical. “Does Time Pass?” has many sentences that are complex, with academic vocabulary

and multiple clauses.

Levels of Meaning/Purpose

1 2 3 4 5

Purposes of selections are clear and straightforward (exploring different concepts about perspectives

and physics of time). However many of the concepts and supporting details are complex and

theoretical.

Summary

In “What’s Your Time Perspective?,” Jane Collingwood describes the

time perspective theories of psychologist Philip Zimbardo. Zimbardo

has identified five personality types based on whether we live in the

past, only for the present moment, or are focused on future goals.

He says that these tendencies determine a great deal about how

successfully we live our lives.

In “Does Time Pass?,” Peter Dizikes describes views about time held

by the MIT philosopher Brad Skow. According to Skow, time does

not “pass” in the way we usually think. Instead, he supports the

“moving spotlight” theory of time in which past, present, and future

all exist simultaneously, but we are only fully aware of the present

moment with the past and future remaining inaccessible to us.

Insight

Reading these selections will

broaden students understanding

of time to include human

psychology and the science

of physics. Some of the ideas

expressed in these selection may

challenge conventional notions

of time.

What’s Your Time Perspective? •

Does Time Pass?

Connection to Essential Question

These selections will help students answer the Essential Question, ”How do

our attitudes toward the past and future shape our actions?” Students will

likely be surprised by the idea that their perspectives toward time may affect

their future behavior and that scientists and philosophers are still proposing

new theories about the concept of time.

Connection to Performance-Based Assessment

These selections will help students respond to the question posed in the

Performance-Based Assessment, “What is the relationship of human beings

to time?” Students will note how general psychological and physical

theories of time continue to be proposed in order to explain this essential,

but mysterious, part of the human experience.

404E UNIT 3 • FACING THE FUTURE, CONFRONTING THE PAST

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