Discussing American Culture: Thrive, GGTU & Nothing

HW: Read and annotate Just Mercy chapters 3-4 for tomorrow.

Thrive

As students enter, please take out your reading and answer the following questions:

1.  What 2 sections did you find most interesting or applicable to your life? In other words, what 2 sections do you want to remember as you get older? (look over your reading and circle two)

Community    Workplace    Social Life    Financial Life      Home         Self

2.  Please answer the following 3 questions from the first section that you circled:

a)What suggestions from this section do find insightful/valuable?  How might you incorporate these suggestions into your life in the future?

b)What cultural values from the Kohl reading might conflict with that you wrote about above? (use the list of values)

3.  Please answer the following 3 questions from the second section that you answered:

a)What suggestions from this section do find insightful/valuable?  How might you incorporate these suggestions into your life in the future?

b)What cultural values from the Kohl reading might conflict with that you wrote about above? (use the list of values)

Checkout this review of the book Thrive. Here is the Thrive website. And you can read an excerpt and also take a happiness test. Try the happiness test - it will measure your satisfaction and make recommendations. Here is link to an interview with the author on the radio.

Nothing Discussion 

For a brief discussion from McGrane's book, click here.  For a more in depth explanation of the nothing experiment, see this post.

4.  Did anyone experience a realization of any sort?  Did anything occur to you?

5.  Was this difficult to do?  Why/why not?

  

6.  How was your doing nothing perceived by those around you?

7.  Identify values that are contradictory to U.S. values from the film God Grew Tired of Us.

US Value        How does it contradict with the Lost Boys?

8.  Look at the list of values that Americans hold.  Identify American values that might complement each other.  These are called value clusters.  List them here:

Value Cluster: ­­­­­­­­­­­

Now look for American values that might contradict the other American values.  These are called value contradictions.  List them here:

Value Contradiction: