Wednesday, January 14th

Today's Objectives:

• Evaluate yet another definition of success with the ultimate goal of forming your own definition of success as a way for living a happier/meaningful life.

• Determine what the influence of technology and social media is on this generation's pursuit of happiness and meaning.

ANNOUNCEMENT:

• Book Club Honors Meeting Today
  
• Remember to makeup Journals and Lit Circle Self-Eval surveys if you miss class!
  
• Please turn in the Eudaimonia activity if you were absent on that day last week.

Agenda

1st hour of class
1. Starter:  Journal #5 Success Podcast #2 and 3 Can you Smile your Way + Angela Duckworth's "Grit"

• GOAL: Summarize two different perspectives on what success means/looks like and consider how they influence your own perception of success.
  

• As you listen, write down a line that stands out to you as significant (either you strongly disagree with it or strongly agree with it) from both speakers 
  
• After listening: 
  
• Summarize both speakers’ definitions
  
• To what extent could either speakers’ definitions of success positively affect your own life. How?

2. Lit Circle Meeting #5

• How is your book answering the essential questions? As a group, answer this question and pick 2-3 quotes from the book to support your claims.

2nd Hour of Class
1. How many people can walk with their smartphones? 2 min. youtube video


2. Journal #6: Reading/Discussion on Generation Y/Millenials and the influence of social media and technology

Driving Question:  How has technology and social media in particular affected the quality of lives and pursuit of happiness for Gen Y?

• Reading #1: "Frequent Cell Phone Use Linked to Anxiety, Lower Grades and Reduced Happiness in Students, Kent State Research Shows"
  
• Reading #2: "The Go-Nowhere Generation"
  
• Reading #3: "Is Facebook Making us Lonely?"
  
• Reading #4: "How Technology will Greatly Enhance the Life and Work of the Middle Class"  OR find an article yourself that presents a counterargument to Readings #1-3.
  
• Optional Extension Reading: "How Not to Be Alone" (a beautiful New York Times article written by author, Jonathan Safran Foer
• Optional Extension podcast (~16 minutes): "Bored and Brilliant: The Lost Art of Spacing Out"

Written Response:
In approximately 300-500 words, answer this question by using evidence from all four articles:

 How has technology and social media in particular affected the quality of lives and pursuit of happiness for Gen Y?

**You can disagree with any of the articles but you must use direct quotes from their articles to respond to (either in agreement or disagreement)