Book report
For this assignment, you are going to do a good old-fashioned book report! Pick One of the Book In the Book List Below. But this time, since you're in college, you're going to read the WHOLE book, haha and take notes on the book. I would recommend that each chapter you read, you write down a summary as you go along.
Summarize + Answer these questions:
What stands out to you and why?
Do you agree or disagree with the author and why?
How can you apply this to your daily life?
Do other experts agree with the author? why or why not?
In addition, to writing down the main points of the book , you will add the things I've mentioned above, along with any other details you'd like to add. This book report will be AT LEAST FOUR full pages , but not more than 6. You'll use size 12 font, double spaced. Since you're just summarizing the book and what you learned, you do not need to cite your references, UNLESS, you are quoting a certain part of the text, then you will include a page number in parenthesis, and if you quote anyone else who has read the book and has offered their insight, then you must cite the reference. If you do use someone else's words for any reason, you are to cite the reference.
I have set this up to be able to have an automatic alert if it is plagiarized. If I see that you have used someone else's words as your own, you will receive a ZERO. Please have faith in your own ability to read and assess one of these books.
Book List
Flow: The psychology of optimal experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Blue zones: Lessons for living longer from the people who've lived the longest by Dan Buettner (either Ist or 2nd edition)
From here to eternity: Traveling the world to find the good death by Caitlin Doughty
Birth: The surprising history of how we are born by Tina Cassidy
Coming around: Parenting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered kids by Anne Dohrenwend
Entwined lives: Twins and what they tell us about human behavior by Nancy L. Segal, Ph.D.
Generation me: Why today's young Americans are more confident, assertive, entitled-and more miserable than ever before by Jean M. Twenge
How we die: Reflections on life's final chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland
The narcissism epidemic: Living in the age of entitlement by Jean M. Twenge and W. Keith Campbell
The deepest well: Healing the long-term effects of childhood adversity by Nadine. Burke Harris, MD
Touch by Tiffany Field
Any book on marriage by John Gattman
Who moved my cheese by Spencer Johnson M. D.
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Simplicity Parenting by Kim John Payne, M. Ed.
What Really Matters Karen M. Wyatt M.D.
The Coddling of the American Mind - How good intentions and bad ideas are setting up a generation for failure - Gre Lukianoff/Jonathan Haidt