Over The Weekend - 9/16 Workshop #1 - 9/11-9/18 Presentation Groups

SCHOLARS ! I was So Impressed with Many of You Today in the "Spot & Jot"  ESPECIALLY MY 930 & 1215!

NOTE TO MY 930 I decided that the Groups should ONLY focus on ONE article NOT TWO

so I will assign YOUR group an article and you will STILL connect the IPSOS - HOWEVER, Main POINTS 1-3 will be based On ONE article NOT TWO! 

Presentation - Google DOC or SLIDES - OUTLINE 

SEE Workshop 1 Assignment - Posted As A Page - Here it is again - Be sure to review the checklist! 

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

Writing Focus: Thinking, Brainstorming- Listing - Constructing Thesis & Outlining 

Groups are working together over the weekend to decide to discuss the articles  and begin a working Thesis 

Step 1 - Re-read the article you have been assigned

Step 2 - Highlight and Annotate (within that research )  Ideas that stand OUT!!  connections - points that relate to lectures 

Step 3. Create a list of ideas based on the highlights that will help you  develop Thesis ! 

REMEMBER  Main POINT 4 is the Connection - Ipsos Report 2025 

KEEP IN MIND your group OUTLINE is BASED ON ONE ARTICLE assigned and the connecting IPSOS Research ! 

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What's Happening In Class on 9/16

QUICK  MINI - Lecture on THESIS! 5 min 

Brady will go over checklist - 5min 

Groups Will WORK Together in class on 9/16  & 9/18 - I will sit with all of the Groups! 60 min 

9/18 - Students work in groups 30  min - We roll the Dice 10 min 

First group presents.. 10 min - The other groups will present on 9/23 

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9:30am -  Workshop Groups & Assigned article! 

2 groups will have the same article - THAT's OK!!!! it will still be a creative presentation!

Group 1 : Wisdom For The Ages: The Best Advice From The World's Greatest Thinkers by Julianna Summers  Gio,  Chris Flores, Sulfaro, Christian, Terence 

Group 2 -  What Makes People Happiest: Health, Family and Purpose  a Global Survey Ipsos 2022 

Alex, Aryan, Adrian, Michael - 

Group 3-   14 Ways To Jump For Joy by Ellen Seidman 

Ramos, Surag, Ahmed, Nick, Muhammad 

 Group 4- Wisdom For The Ages: The Best Advice From The World's Greatest Thinkers by Julianna Summers 

Bryana, Marcia, Mehvika, Dulce

Group 5- Using Epicurean Philosophy to Find Happiness" by Blackburn

-Jake Ryan, Hatton, Robin, Kacper, Brian 

12:15pm Workshop Groups 

Group 1 - What Makes People Happiest: Health, Family and Purpose  a Global Survey Ipsos 2022 

Chris Rivera, Niko, Landon, Landaverde- Ipsos 2022

Group 2- 14 Ways To Jump For Joy by Ellen Seidman 

Maninder, Levi, Kelly, Elliot -  Blackburn article 

Group 3 - Wisdom For The Ages: The Best Advice From The World's Greatest Thinkers by Julianna Summers

Ben, Thomas, Steven, Manveer, Dylan -

Group 4 - CATY group -  YOU did not hand me a card! thinking Katie, Kaylynn , Kayla Ashley and Cathy?  YOU KNOW WHO YOU are to begin working on BLACKBURN ARTICLE

 Using Epicurean Philosophy to Find Happiness" by Blackburn

DUE on 9/11- Workshop 1 - PRINT & EVALUATE - GET READY for GROUPS

 PREPARE FOR WORKSHOP 1- 2 day 

Workshop - 10% - GROUPS

PRINT & Bring To Class on 9/11

Workshop TASKS!!!! 

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

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

ADD THIS  TO WORKSHOP 1- PRINT  THE IPSOS Happiness Index 

Ipsos REPORT - Bring it to class - I will have a writing prompt set up on Thursday! 

https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2025-03/Ipsos-Global-Happiness-Index-2025_1.pdf

                                                                                                                                     Never Forget 9/11

WE go into groups  on Thursday and continue 9/16-9/18

BE PREPARED!!!! 

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

Scholars ! 

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!! 

Over the Weekend: ALL of the PARTS REQUIRE Active Reading

1. Re-read 14 Ways To Jump For Joy by Seidman ANSWER this in YOUR NOTEBOOK

WRITE:  ONE PARAGRAPH 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?  PROVIDE CONCRETE EXAMPLES in your response by STATING For Example, make a statement and provide a CLEAR QUOTE.

2. RE-READ " What Makes People The Happiest" by Ipsos a Global 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?

3. 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.  

4. 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? 

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 Stoics - VENN DIAGRIAM- WE continue the Lecture and ADD THE OTHER TWO Articles including Seidman in "14 Ways" and 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 2025

" 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)