Happy (The Happy Movie)

Curriculum Guide

• Lesson 1: The Study of Happiness

  Subject: Career Studies, Language Arts, Psychology, Social Emotional Learning

• Lesson 2: What Really Makes Us Happy?

  Subject: Career Studies, Language Arts, Psychology, Social Emotional Learning

• Lesson 3: Values and Happiness

  Subject: Career Studies, Language Arts, Psychology, Social Emotional Learning

• Lesson 4: The Social Side of Happiness

  Subject: Career Studies, Language Arts, Psychology, Social Emotional Learning

• Lesson 5: Practicing Happiness

  Subject: Career Studies, Language Arts, Psychology, Social Emotional Learning

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Literary Connections

For film-book pairings, explore these books about happiness written by experts who appear in The Happy Movie:

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi;
Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill by Matthieu Ricard;
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert;
The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living by the Dalai Lama;
The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu and Douglas Carlton Abrams;
The High Price of Materialism by Tim Kasser;
The How Of Happiness: A Practical Guide to Getting The Life You Want by Sonja Lyubomirsky;
The Myths of Happiness: What Should Make You Happy, but Doesn’t, What Shouldn’t Make You Happy, but Does by Sonja Lyubomirsky;
The Self Delusion: The New Neuroscience of How We Invent―and Reinvent―Our Identities by Gregory Burns.

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