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:
