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Creative Non-Fiction

Creative Non-Fiction. Essay 3 College Prep Dual Credit English 102. Creative Non-Fiction. Happy, Healthy, Safe…what does it mean to be happy?

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Creative Non-Fiction

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  1. Creative Non-Fiction Essay 3 College Prep Dual Credit English 102

  2. Creative Non-Fiction • Happy, Healthy, Safe…what does it mean to be happy? • Please write down three words that make you happy. They may be people, feelings, items, etc… Please write them down and then explain why each one makes you happy. • Turn to your shoulder partner(s). Share the happiness ideas if you are comfortable.

  3. “Why So Many Smart People Aren’t Happy” by Joe Pinsker Apr. 26, 2016 for The Atlantic • Please read the article. • Note the underlined sections. Annotate, define, and explain the underlined phrases and sentences. • In your notebook, please explain the “abundance-oriented approach.” Can you think of an example? Explain. • In your notebook, please connect this phrase from the article, “…if you don’t worry about the outcomes and enjoy the process of doing something, rather than the goal” to your Basha Gives Back project. What can we learn from the phrase?

  4. “What We Know Now About How to Be Happy” by Alice G. Walton May 17, 2012 for The Atlantic • Please define and give an example for each: “hedonic” and “eudaimonic.” • Please connect the sentence, “People whose goals involved personal growth and the community were much happier than people who sought money or fame,” with the activity of your Basha Gives Back project. • Does the action of your project make you happy? “Hedonic” or “Eudaimonic?” Explain.

  5. “Happy” a documentary • Please identify and explain two concepts in the documentary that you also remember from the reading. • Please identify and explain something that makes you happy. Use the concepts from the articles and the film.

  6. ENGL 102 • Dr. Laura Brudvik • Creative Nonfiction: Storytelling as Research • 50 points • In the articles “Why So Many Smart People Aren’t Happy” and “What We Know Now About How to Be Happy,” and the documentary, “Happy,” there are stories about people, relationships, events, and communities- presented in order to illustrate the various theories/concepts behind happiness. Narratives, or storytelling, are rhetorically appealing because they allow readers to access information in a way that is personal and entertaining, rather than simply academic. • For this paper, you will write your own creative nonfiction piece that uses a theory, concept, or definition presented in the articles and/or film, and that helps to explain the theory. • Creative nonfiction: • The words “creative” and “nonfiction” describe the form. The word “creative” refers to the use of literary craft, the techniques fiction writers, playwrights, and poets employ to present nonfiction—factually accurate prose about real people and events—in a compelling, vivid, dramatic manner. The goal is to make nonfiction stories read like fiction so that your readers are as enthralled by fact as they are by fantasy. (“Creative Nonfiction”) • Consider how the documentary creatively uses narratives to research and explain true things. You will do the same in your paper, choosing a personal topic interesting to you and that connects you with the topic of happiness. This paper will be about a true event, person, or issue in your life that can be further illuminated by one of the ideas from the literature/film. You will borrow the happiness research and apply its lens to your own narrative story. • You will be graded according to the following rubric: • Does the author write in a creative nonfiction format and incorporate one of the literature’s/film’s concepts, theories, or definitions? 10/50 • Is the content of the paper reflective and collegiate, and is all outside material cited using quotation sandwiches? 10/50 • Does the writer employ a narrative style, with an effective literary arc, evocative imagery, and interesting details? Does the writer show rather than tell? 10/50 • Is the paper error free, in MLA format, and 2-3 pages? 10/50 • Drafting Process 10/50

  7. Creative Non-Fiction Essay • Timetable: • Monday-Tuesday (Mar. 4-5): Writing days • Wednesday-Thursday (Mar. 6-7) : Peer Edit days • Friday, Mar. 8: Essay due to TurnItIn.com • Friday, Mar. 8: Basha Gives Back Presentation Draft Due

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