Project Description
This project begun at the start of the semester and we are just now wrapping it up. In the beginning of the project we started to read a book called "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley. The book was about people who were created in test tubes; they grew up being taught what was right and wrong and once they were old enough they were all sent to be factory workers. Throughout the book you are introduced to more characters and it starts talking more about happiness and why the people in this brave new world, were only happy when they were on drugs. After we read the book, we did a socratic seminar on it. We talked about what we agreed with and disagreed with.
Once we were done with everything Brave New World related, an Annotated Bibliography. Basically for this, we went to sources and read/watched/listened to them and wrote about them, some we did as a class, and some we did individually. All of this was in preparation for our happiness video. We used it as evidence and research for what we were going to put in the video. During this time we also started to do a happiness experiment. For this we all chose something that we would do everyday that we thought might make us happier. We all took a happiness questionnaire at the beginning of the week. Then we would rate our happiness level on a scale from 1-10 before and after we would do the experiment. Then we did the questionnaire at the end of the week too.
For the video we went around the room and found people who wrote their annotated bibliographies about similar things and that is who we worked with to construct the video. My group went around the school and interviewed people with questions related to happiness and success. Once we got all of our footage, we put the video together.
Once we were done with everything Brave New World related, an Annotated Bibliography. Basically for this, we went to sources and read/watched/listened to them and wrote about them, some we did as a class, and some we did individually. All of this was in preparation for our happiness video. We used it as evidence and research for what we were going to put in the video. During this time we also started to do a happiness experiment. For this we all chose something that we would do everyday that we thought might make us happier. We all took a happiness questionnaire at the beginning of the week. Then we would rate our happiness level on a scale from 1-10 before and after we would do the experiment. Then we did the questionnaire at the end of the week too.
For the video we went around the room and found people who wrote their annotated bibliographies about similar things and that is who we worked with to construct the video. My group went around the school and interviewed people with questions related to happiness and success. Once we got all of our footage, we put the video together.
Our Happiness Video: Happiness vs. Success
My Annotated Bibliography
My Happiness Experiment
Project Reflection
- What have you discovered your truth of happiness is?
- What was the greatest challenge you faced during this project and how did you work through it?
- How have you grown as a group worker in this project?
- If you could refine any of this project, thinking back through the entire project, Brave New World through experiments to videos, what would you refine and how would you refine it?