Happy Place

Lead-in

  • What and when was the happiest time of your childhood?
  • Do you think that happiness lies within you or does it depend upon external things? Why? Give examples.
  • What are ways to become happy again when you are not?
  • What are the five most important things for you to be happy? Why?
  • Why do you think some nations seem happier than others?

Happy idioms

Presentation 1

Pre

  • If you could be transported to the happiest place in the world, where would it be? Why?

Top Down

  • What are some things that bring the video’s owner joy? Watch it and find out.
  • His job
  • Staying in
  • Waking up in the morning
  • Creating projects
  • Running on the street
  • The end of the day
  • Scaping to the woods
  • Watching the sea
  • Powering down
  • Birds calling
  • His job
  • Staying in
  • Waking up in the morning
  • Creating projects
  • Running on the street
  • The end of the day
  • Scaping to the woods
  • Watching the sea
  • Powering down
  • Birds calling

Bottom Up

  • True or False

Example: He goes to the woods because he wants to feel small. > True.

  1. There are people talking about their happy place all the time on social media.
  2. The video’s owner doesn’t like to have a happy place.
  3. When he goes to the woods, he gets more creative.
  4. He feels that his senses come alive in that place.
  5. He has walked in the forest for more than 15 years and every day he gets home with the same happy feeling.
  1. There are people talking about their happy place all the time on social media. True
  2. The video’s owner doesn’t like to have a happy place. False
  3. When he goes to the woods, he gets more creative. True
  4. He feels that his senses come alive in that place. True
  5. He has walked in the forest for more than 15 years and every day he gets home with the same happy feeling. False

Post

  • What do you think about the place described in the video?
  • Do you agree that we get more creative when surrounded by nature? Why or why not?
  • Describe what your happy place would be like.

Presentation 2

Pre

  • Is happiness the absence of negative feelings? Why or why not?

Top Down

  • What is Rosa’s happy place like? Watch the video and find out.
  • A tent
  • A cabin
  • In the middle of nowhere
  • There’s just her and the defense attorney
  • She is teaching the defense attorney how to do his job
  • She is beating the defense attorney
  • A tent
  • A cabin
  • In the middle of nowhere
  • There’s just her and the defense attorney
  • She is teaching the defense attorney how to do his job
  • She is beating the defense attorney

Bottom Up

  • Fill in the gaps as you watch the video again.

Example: ____ course I’m nervous! > Of course I’m nervous!

  1. We just assumed you were a terrifying human being with a ____ fuse.
  2. So, Detective Diaz, you saw my client ____ with his boss but you don’t know who ____ the fight.
  3. To be perfectly ____, no one cares what you think. Do you actually know anything or are you just ____?
  4. I break a dining room table over his head then I ____ off his arm and ____ it where the sun don’t shine.
  5. I’m going to go ahead and ____ you for a psych ____. 
  1. We just assumed you were a terrifying human being with a short fuse.
  2. So, Detective Diaz, you saw my client struggling with his boss but you don’t know who initiated the fight.
  3. To be perfectly candid, no one cares what you think. Do you actually know anything or are you just guessing?
  4. I break a dining room table over his head then I rip off his arm and shove it where the sun don’t shine.
  5. I’m going to go ahead and schedule you for a psych eval. 

Post

  • How much do you identify with Rosa?
  • Have you ever felt happy about hurting or mistreating someone? Why or why not?
  • What do you think about people who feel sad about being happy? Have you ever felt like this? Why?