Friday 2/19

NO STARTER

Class Biz

• Turn in your lit circle make-up work
• SLC guidelines for those who need to attend 
• If you know what medium you're doing for the visual part of the project, bring in any necessary supplies on Monday so you can use class time. Otherwise you'll keep brainstorming and maybe outlining or writing your philosophy statement on Monday.

AGENDA
1. Finish the film Happy and discuss

​2.  In groups of 3-4, share out your TED Talk homework:

• If you watched the same talk, discuss how you felt about it.
• If you watched different ones, summarize and share take-aways.

3. In your starter google doc title this entry "Happiness and Meaning review journal" (to start getting the wheels churnin' for your project).  Answer the following prompt:
What ideas have stood out to you from this project so far that you think resonate with or are influencing the formation of your own personal philosophy of happiness/meaning?

Here is a list of the resources/philosophies/concepts we've studied thus far:

​Readings

​TED Talks, Podcasts, Media Clips

​Films

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• The Stranger
• Into the Wild/Tale for Time Being
• “The Catastrophe of Success”
• Solitude and Nature: Key Ingredients to a Life Worth Living?
  
•  (Jennifer Aaker: Happiness v. Meaning
• “the lesson of the moth”
• Research on Gratitude from Harvard Health
• Summary of Aristotle's philosophy of Eudaimonia (ignore page 1)
• Existentialism powerpoint 

• “Are you there God” TED Talk series
• Success Podcast (5 talks)
• “The Science of Happiness- An Experiment in Gratitude”
• “The Paradox of Choice”
• "Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us"  
•  "Why I Hate School but Love Education"
• "What Makes a Good Life: Lessons from the Longest Study on Happiness"
• "The Pale Blue Dot" narrated by Astronomer and astrophysicist, Carl Sagan
•  Youtube video called, "Existential Bummer"
• Radiolab podcast on "Bliss"  and the youtube video of Aleksander Gamme's blissful cache discover
•  I AM by Stephen Sellers
• Alan Watts' youtube video: "What is it you desire?"  

Stranger Than Fiction
Happy
BBC's film on Science and Religion

4. Review Project Guidelines, Deadlines and Rubric

5. Rubric critique
Dig in to some of the rubric language.  With the people near you, answer the following:

• What does thoughtful mean in the context of our project?
• What does authentic mean in the context of this project?
• What does it mean for a piece of writing and a creative visual to "work together cohesively"?
• What does it mean when a project is "refined to exhibition standards"
• What does it mean to "exemplify beautiful work"?

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6. EXAMPLES?

• Ashley's Example philosophy statement and project proposal
•  Watsky's spoken word poem: "Tiny Glowing Screens, Part 2":  This poem tells a depressing story about how the stars make us feel inadequate, about how — amongst seven billion people — each one of us is insignificant. However, upon closer look, Watsky seems to be trying to make meaning or find his purpose in the face of that feeling of inadequacy/insignificance. Think about how he defines meaning/purpose in this poem.
• Stephen Sellers "I Am" Video
• Student philosophy statement and project proposal examples from last year's project

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5. Brainstorm!  Here are some options for brainstorm time....
*Remember: BY next Wednesday you must complete the project proposal AND get your idea critiqued in class before moving forward with implementation.

• Spend the next 15 minutes writing or drawing as many different ideas as you can  OR continuing your starter by reacting to the various resources that we studied (listed above) that stood out to you as particularly inspiring.
• Spend some time re-reading/re-watching the resources above that stood out to you
• Talk to a friend about some ideas you have
• Read through some of the guiding questions and student examples on this document. Journal on them.
• Go for a walk and think about your ideas and when you come back, write down the INSPIRING thoughts that stood out to you 
• Write your personal philosophy statement FIRST as this may help you choose what sort of medium you want to do for your art piece! Stuck on your personal philosophy? See the first three bullet points!!!