DUE: Thursday, 9/17 - Get Ready for Workshop #1 The Stoics & Happiness

 

SCHOLARS!! I truly enjoyed our CLASS TODAY!  Excellent Work in the "Spot & Jot" , Weekend BONUS & added Research Articles such as  IPSOS 2025 Index! 

WE RANG THE BELL!  

GET READY FOR WORKSHOP #1 - WE BEGIN on 9/17 - THIS IS OUR FIRST GRADED ASSIGNMENT! Writing Workshops - Assessment 10%
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 PREPARE FOR WORKSHOP 1-- This Will BE A 2 Day Workshop Presentations will take place ON Day 2 - 9/22  JUST PRINT and BRING THE TASKS & Outline Sheet to CLASS! 

Workshop - 10% - GROUPS work Together - WE WILL CREATE GROUPS ON THURSDAY! 

PRINT & Bring The Workshop Tasks & " How To Create An Outline"  To Class on  Thursday 9/17

1. Workshop TASKS!!!!  

https://identitythroughwriting.blogspot.com/p/workshop-1-stoics-meaning-and-purpose.html

2. PRINT ONLY : How to CREATE AN OUTLINE>.. BRING IT TO CLASS Prepare For OUR FIRST WORKSHOP.. 

! https://docs.google.com/document/d/0B-oPG8xeJv2dUVFuQUxKbUU4OHc/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=109507672381224686342&resourcekey=0-obwcKyT56v9FenuBb-s17g&rtpof=true&sd=true

RINGING THE BELL!! 9:30 CLASS !! 

12:15 -  JUSTIN In The HOTSEAT! 

MEMORIZE THE  PERMA! 

Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning & Purpose, Achievement

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I will place the class into groups on Thursday when we begin! 

EQ: If there were a silent scale of happiness that you did not have to share with anyone but had to honestly think about .. Would you say you are -  reasonably happy , rather happy, very happy, could be happier, not so happy?

Think about it!

See You Thursday! 

What to look forward to ?

Workshop #1 - Group Work and Presentations 

Positive Psychology :Seligman , PERMA, Genetics & PUB #1

" Battle of The Boards" 

Over the WEEKEND DUE: 9/15 GET READY FOR WORKSHOP #1

Scholars ! - 

 PRINT THE ARTICLES and ACTIVELY READ THEM - BRING THEM TO CLASS alongside a NOTEBOOK with your RESPONSES!

Some of you truly shined in the FISHBOWL today! Keep up the Great work!! We take it one week at a time.. many of you will truly begin to relish in seminar and I look forward to it.

SAVE EVERY ARTICLE AND ALL OF YOUR NOTES!- Stay Organized.. Everything we do in class will be IMPORTANT!!  AND WILL LEAD US TO WORKSHOP 1 and PUB 1 ! 

Over the Weekend: ALL of the PARTS REQUIRE Active Reading

1. RE-READ " What Makes People The Happiest" by Ipsos a Global Survey and PRINT THE FULL SURVEY!! 

PRINT THE IPSOS - 2025 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/13mEsrOspPzR2BrlFzTV15JKqz7zLka7R/view?usp=sharing

PRINT  THE IPSOS - A 30 Country Advisor Survey!

WRITE-  Highlight the countries with the highest levels of happiness..  Discuss  the top 5 factors and potential sources that predict happiness. Based on your findings , what is the most interesting percentage and why?

Discuss AGE and Happiness - What's The good news? What's the not so good news?

If we defined " Happiness" as having comfort,  good relationships including friendships, positive emotion, engagement, meaning and achievement.. where would you fall on the scale according to Ipsos - rather happy, happy, very happy, not so happy and WHY?

2.. ADDED ARTICLE: PRINT AND  ACTIVELY READ:  " Using Epicurean Philosophy to Find Happiness" by Blackburn

https://www.verywellmind.com/epicurean-philosophy-and-happiness-4177914#:~:text=As%20Epicurus%20proposed%2C%20an%20element,like%20in%20our%20modern%20times.

Answer the following in your notebook based on the Blackburn article.  

• Identity the elements of Epicurean Philosophy.  Label a list in your notebook and then rank them in order of importance to you. 
• What did you choose as your number 1 ? What was the least? Why?
• Choose One significant point that Blackburn makes. Write the point down in your notebook. then WRITE FOR EXAMPLE- on page... Then extract a quote from that particular point to support your ideas... then share the purpose of why you chose it.  

WEEKEND BONUS!

WHEN YOU COME IN ON TUESDAY - I will ASK YOU to Share your index card  - IF you do not have one you can use your notebook and transfer it on to an index card in class. 

 WEEKEND BONUS - INDEX CARD - WEEKEND HAPPY BONUS : Go out of your way to make another person happy this weekend by complimenting them ! It must be a stranger. It can be a compliment of any kind.. make it count! Document on the index card - the encounter, the reaction an how it made you feel.  Compliments can be simple or grand.. but they always have a feel good factor for both you and the recipient.. 

PART 2 - SERATONIN - 

Students share in Seminar on Tuesday!

Have a GREAT WEEKEND.

What's Happening on Tuesday?

- Fishbowl: What did you do this weekend to make someone else happy?  CAN BE A SMALL GESTURE!! 

Writing Prompt: 

students are asked to share ONE act they displayed over the weekend to MAKE another PERSON happy. 

IN  Fishbowl Up at the board.. Mini Lecture -  WE continue The  INTRO with  - VENN DIAGRIAM- WE continue the Lecture and ADD THE OTHER TWO Articles including  Ipsos " What Makes People Happiest" 

WE WILL ADD Epicurean Philosophy by Blackburn  - Students share ideas to add to the Venn Diagram.

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Remember :

" Happiness is infectious, the happier we are.. the happier we make others. " 

Professor Brady 2026

" The Search for Perfectionism is ALWAYS in the BOXING RING with Happiness." - Brady

 AND 

“The happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.” 

H . Jackson Brown (Life's Little Instruction Book)

What To Look Forward To?

- 9/17 - Introduction to Workshop #1

How To Create and Outline - Workshop Groups and Timeline!!

Have a BEAUTIFUL WEEKEND!!!

DUE: 9/10 - "The Stoics" -Meaning and Purpose - Getting Ready For Workshop 1

 

DUE: 9/10 - "The Stoics" -Meaning and Purpose - Getting Ready For Workshop 1

 DUE THURSDAY!!! PLEASE PRINT AND WRITE

 COMPLETE THE ASSIGNMENT  IN YOUR NOTEBOOK: 

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We are moving into Happiness and toward Workshop 1 -Happiness Category - Meaning & Purpose

 Due On Thursday - PREPARE for a MINI Lecture & FISHBOWL - WE ARE EMBARKING ON Workshop 1 and Pub 1 as these will be coming up as writing assignments! 

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO ACTIVELY READ? IT MEANS TO Highlight, Connect and Annotate as you read!!! USE A PEN or a VIRTUAL PEN TO TAKE NOTES WHILE YOU READ!

PART 1 - Print and  ACTIVELY READ - THE GREATS- What do Epictetus & Aristotle Say about Happiness ?

Wisdom For The Ages: The Best Advice From The World's Greatest Thinkers by Julianna Summers

https://www.newtraderu.com/2023/09/10/wisdom-for-the-ages-the-best-advice-from-the-worlds-greatest-thinkers-stoicism/

WRITE:  In Your Notebook:  List TWO ways Stoicism compels 21st century happiness scholars to think about the foundation of happiness in modern times.

provide ONE concrete example for each one of your points. In addition, add a quote.. 

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PART 2 - Print and ACTIVELY READ

14 Ways To Jump For Joy by Ellen Seidman 

Published in The Science of Happiness Special Edition 2018 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WNAzU57eo9n5yiT1FDum_vuRbuWQ9dFTuytOi--DHN4/edit?usp=sharing

WRITE: Discuss ONE aspect discussed by author Seidman that speaks to YOUR HEART? ONE MAJOR point made that has the biggest impact as you embark on the "Science Of Happiness". Why did you choose this particular point? EXAMPLES>>> at least 2 

AND .. PRINT AND READ -  What Makes People Happiest: Health, Family and Purpose  a Global Survey Ipsos 2022 

 https://www.ipsos.com/en/global-happiness-survey-march-2022#:~:text=The%20survey%20finds%20that%2C%20across,in%20control%2C%20being%20in%20nature%2C

WRITE: Did you find anything surprising? What is the most interesting percentage?

I ADDED THIS ARTICLE

Stoicism: Finding Happiness in What’s Under Your Control by Matthew Pianalto

 March 28, 2025

https://1000wordphilosophy.com/2025/03/28/stoicism/

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 BRING YOUR INDEX CARD TO CLASS !!! 

*We Will Have the Happiness DRAW !  Get Ready and Be Prepared!

See you on THURSDAY!

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Be Prepared: ALWAYS BRING A NOTEBOOK AND A PEN!

PURCHASE A FOLDER FOR ALL THE WORKSHEETS and ARTICLES!

Thursday 9/10- In Class

Writing Prompt - Interpret " Know what you can control and what you cannot. Happiness and freedom begin with a CLEAR understanding of ONE Principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are NOT."'

- Epictetus 

 WE WILL HAVE A FISHBOWL  All the articles & HW Questions

- Don't drop the BALL! 

 SEE YOU THURSDAY!  

The Whimsical Flow! 

Thank YOU Mr. Cornetta for Running the Board! 

Our Happiness Class will always appreciate LANDAVERDE - Fall 2025 !