Class

1. Roughly what proportion of the
world's population is fluent or
competent in English?
A. one person in a thousand
B. one in a hundred
C.one in ten
D.one in four

3.  With the person sitting next
you, describe a good
summary
 Share with the class
 What makes a bad summary?
Why?

5.  Get into groups of seven
 Each person take a number
 Meet with the group with your number
 In this new group, go over your section of the reading:
 Less of What We Want
 1— “Intrinsic Motivation”
 2— “High Performance”
 3— “Creativity”
 4— “Good Behavior”
 More of What We Don’t Want
 5— “Unethical Behavior”
 6— “Addiction”
 7— “Short-term Thinking”
 Discuss the section with your group—no computers!

6.  By yourself, create a summary of your section
 Submit your summary to Turnitin
 Meet in your original groups
 Beginning with the first section, explain each
section to the group and make sure everyone
thoroughly understands it before you move on
 Create one summary and save it to your
flashdrive

8.  What is Pink’s argument in this
chapter?
 Why don’t rewards (usually) work to
motivate people?
 What do you think about “The Seven
Deadly Flaws” of carrots and sticks
that Pink lists on page 57?

9.  When do carrots and sticks work?
 What are the three steps to
motivating people for boring jobs?

10.  You are managing a group of fifteen employees
 I will give you a task (because I am the head
honcho!)
 Your job is to get the employees to do it using
the techniques Pink describes in chapters 2 and
2a (use the chart on page 67 to help)
 Describe (specifically) what you would do as
the manager to ensure the completion
 Submit your assignment to Turnitin

11.  Get in a group with the people who had the
same task
 Discuss
 How did everyone approach the task?
 What differences do you see?
 What similarities?
 Come up with a group plan and present to the class

12.  What do you know about the term
“Type A Person”?
 Take five minutes to research it online
 What did you find out?
 Would you consider yourself “Type
A”?

13. A. Chapter 2 and 2a Quiz
B. “Her Point Is”
(Summarizing)
C. Jigsaw reading Chapter 2
D. Management Exercise

14. A. Chapter 2 and 2a Quiz
B. “Her Point Is”
(Summarizing)
C. Jigsaw reading Chapter 2
D. Management Exercise

15.  Read Drive Chapter 3 pages 68-79
(and prepare for a reading quiz and
discussion)
 Complete the assignment to ask for
help—you will need to write about
the experience on Thursday
 Study pictures and names for
Thursday’s quiz
 Participate in the weekly discussion
(post due Thursday and replies due
Sunday)