Assignment task:
Discussion Post Instructions:
You're starting an assignment. Be in the moment and minimize distractions so you can learn and express your thoughts clearly.
Read "How Gratitude Changes Your Brain."
Review 6.4 Lesson: Refresher on Paragraph Requirements.
Write a paragraph response for each prompt below using quoted evidence from the assigned reading only.
Check that your paragraphs both demonstrate the writing skills taught in the lesson to meet what is required. Need Assignment Help?
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Prompts - Answer both
After reading Brown and Wong's "How Gratitude Changes Your Brain," write a paragraph response that explains something you learned about the gratitude experiment that you feel is most significant for readers to understand. Your response needs a topic sentence and an integrated, cited, and explicated quote from the article to support your main idea. After you explicate the quote, connect to a specific personal experience you had (or want to have) that relates.
Select one of the four insights from Brown and Wong's "How Gratitude Changes Your Brain" that is a psychological benefit of giving gratitude. Your response needs a topic sentence (which insight and your reason it's important) and an integrated, cited, and explicated quote from the article to support your main idea. After you explicate the quote, connect this to you by explaining how this benefit could be useful (or interesting) to you.