“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
Peter Drucker
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This is usually credited to Abraham Lincoln, who left no trace of it. The thought is twentieth century: Dennis Gabor wrote in 1963 that the future cannot be predicted but can be invented, and the sentence in this form is generally attributed to Peter Drucker.
The conversation plan
Take this into a classroom.
Claim
You have the power to shape your future through your choices and actions.
Counterclaim
Circumstances shape a future more than effort does, whatever a person decides.
Essential question
How much of your future is actually yours to build?
The rest of the plan
Prompts, handout, teacher guide.
4 storytelling prompts go with this conversation, along with the printable student handout and teacher guide. Those are part of the Teach Different community, together with the full library of plans and the monthly live trainings where teachers work through them.