The Happiness Project Essay Assignment Due dates beginning week of March 17-23
Essay Prompts for The Happiness Project Essay & Grading
Rubric
Students will be graded on: how well s/he makes what “they say, I say,” in other words how well the conversation the writer is entering is articulated. Students will also be graded on how well they “agree, disagree and agree/disagree.” Lastly, students need to use the quotation sandwich and other forms of introductory remarks to both introduce and place quotes in context. We are looking at They Say chapters 1-4.
Students will also be graded on the MLA for an essay, which includes both in-text citations and the Works Cited page.
Students will be assessed on the structure of the essay, the thesis sentence and subsequent topic sentences; also the way the writer uses the text to support their ideas or arguments.
Lastly, students will be assessed on the grammar. Do the errors interfere with the delivery? Errors that one should look for are as follows: pronoun case errors; sentence fragments; comma splices; run-on sentences; subj. verb agreement errors; vague pronoun references; clarity; too many be-verbs, misspelled, wrong words, and missing words.
First essay on Rubin’s Happiness Project due: Week of March 17-23 with Initial Planning Sheet and Outline. Polished draft due March 24-31 for a peer review. Final Draft due to me Week of March 31-April 6.
Week of March 17-23, 2013
1. Initial Planning Sheet and outline which includes a thesis sentence are due in class
2. Using the COA Library database, find two articles that support your thesis for The Happiness Project (THP). Summarize the article. This summary will be a part of the Essay Portfolio.
3. Three (3) sources in MLA format with summaries of scholarly articles and Rubin’s book (THP)
3. Three (3) sources in MLA format with summaries of scholarly articles and Rubin’s book (THP)
4. Fast draft is due for peer review session (in Moodle as a Forum for online class. Bring to class this week electronically and on paper (4-5 copies) Hybrid Tuesday/Saturday classes--March 18 or March 22.)
Polished Draft for Peer Review Week of March 24-31 (in Forum for online Moodle class. Bring to class Tuesday/Saturday classes electronically March 25 & March 30.)
Final Draft of Essay due electronically with Revision Goals April 1-6
Saturday English 1A class send to: coasabirenglish1A@gmail.com Online classes post in Moodle.
Essay Portfolio includes:
1. The final draft of the essay
2. A peer review and narrative comment from student about comments
3. Initial Planning Sheet
4. Outline
5. Reading Logs
6. Cyber-Assignments and Freewrites connected to The Happiness Project (most at They Say Assignments and writing from THP Workshops.
(This is an electronic document. No paper copies necessary.)
1. The final draft of the essay
2. A peer review and narrative comment from student about comments
3. Initial Planning Sheet
4. Outline
5. Reading Logs
6. Cyber-Assignments and Freewrites connected to The Happiness Project (most at They Say Assignments and writing from THP Workshops.
(This is an electronic document. No paper copies necessary.)
The Happiness Project Essay Prompts
Choose 1 prompt to respond to in
a 3-4 page essay. For each essay include minimally three (3) citations, no more
than 5. 1 of the citations has to be a block quote and another has to be a free
paraphrase. The last can be either a shorter citation or another free
paraphrase.
The Assignment with due dates proceed this document.
1. In Gretchen Rubin’s book, The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun, is a book that chronicles her year off contemplating how she could intentionally infuse her life with more happiness, how are her goals and objectives filled with inexplicable and unexpected results?
2. What does Grechin Rubin’s learn about herself half way through her journey that is reaffirmed at the end?
3. Gretchen Rubin uses a particular strategy to address her project. Analytical and extremely goal orientated she develops what she calls commandments, secrets of adulthood, and splendid truths. Discuss her process of discovering the potential for perpetual or reoccurring happiness.
4. Gretchen Rubin states at the beginning of her journey that how she tackles this phenomenon will vary from person to person, yet despite our individual differences, The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun, is an instructive and useful guide. Discuss how this is proven true over and over again throughout the 12 months.
5. How does Gretchen Rubin simplify access to something most people take for granted, yet find so valuable? How is her happiness project a road map for those seeking happiness?
6. After reading Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun, what conclusions support “its pursuit”? How is happiness connected not just to one’s humanity, but to one’s citizenship in this great nation?
7. Choose three chapters from Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun, and discuss the principles highlighted there and how Rubin’s quest builds on each subsequent step in the process towards her goal.
8. Look at the book’s organization and Gretchen Rubin’s writing. Choose three chapters then look at the form of the writing, Rubin’s inclusion of experts and the refinement of her developing argument which at the end of the book states what?
9. Gretchen Rubin admits that she is happy, but is focusing on happiness to steel herself against the inevitable tragedy or catastrophe that happens in many of our lives, often when we least expect. Can one prepare for such loss? Is Rubin’s year long quest preparation for this eventual loss of her beloved husband?
10. What checkpoints rescue Gretchen Rubin’s Gretchen Rubin’s Happiness Project from narcissism?
11. Choose three (3) chapters and discuss the scholarly nature of Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun. How does this establish Rubin’s credibility early on?
12. What does Gretchen Rubin’s work ethic say about happiness?
13. Gretchen Rubin states often that personal happiness is tied to our relationships with others, not necessarily just those we are intimately connected too either. Talk about a few of these primary relationships and how Rubin uses them to push herself more closely to her goal.
14. If Gretchen Rubin’s goal for more happiness meant she had to transform in the process, illustrate her change from A to L and M to Z. Let us see a before and an in-process don’t remove the sheet yet; then shift our gaze to the perhaps not complete, yet a whole lot more happy Gretchen outcome (smile).
The Assignment with due dates proceed this document.
1. In Gretchen Rubin’s book, The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun, is a book that chronicles her year off contemplating how she could intentionally infuse her life with more happiness, how are her goals and objectives filled with inexplicable and unexpected results?
2. What does Grechin Rubin’s learn about herself half way through her journey that is reaffirmed at the end?
3. Gretchen Rubin uses a particular strategy to address her project. Analytical and extremely goal orientated she develops what she calls commandments, secrets of adulthood, and splendid truths. Discuss her process of discovering the potential for perpetual or reoccurring happiness.
4. Gretchen Rubin states at the beginning of her journey that how she tackles this phenomenon will vary from person to person, yet despite our individual differences, The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun, is an instructive and useful guide. Discuss how this is proven true over and over again throughout the 12 months.
5. How does Gretchen Rubin simplify access to something most people take for granted, yet find so valuable? How is her happiness project a road map for those seeking happiness?
6. After reading Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun, what conclusions support “its pursuit”? How is happiness connected not just to one’s humanity, but to one’s citizenship in this great nation?
7. Choose three chapters from Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun, and discuss the principles highlighted there and how Rubin’s quest builds on each subsequent step in the process towards her goal.
8. Look at the book’s organization and Gretchen Rubin’s writing. Choose three chapters then look at the form of the writing, Rubin’s inclusion of experts and the refinement of her developing argument which at the end of the book states what?
9. Gretchen Rubin admits that she is happy, but is focusing on happiness to steel herself against the inevitable tragedy or catastrophe that happens in many of our lives, often when we least expect. Can one prepare for such loss? Is Rubin’s year long quest preparation for this eventual loss of her beloved husband?
10. What checkpoints rescue Gretchen Rubin’s Gretchen Rubin’s Happiness Project from narcissism?
11. Choose three (3) chapters and discuss the scholarly nature of Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun. How does this establish Rubin’s credibility early on?
12. What does Gretchen Rubin’s work ethic say about happiness?
13. Gretchen Rubin states often that personal happiness is tied to our relationships with others, not necessarily just those we are intimately connected too either. Talk about a few of these primary relationships and how Rubin uses them to push herself more closely to her goal.
14. If Gretchen Rubin’s goal for more happiness meant she had to transform in the process, illustrate her change from A to L and M to Z. Let us see a before and an in-process don’t remove the sheet yet; then shift our gaze to the perhaps not complete, yet a whole lot more happy Gretchen outcome (smile).
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