More from the Happy Guy...
He has a whole list of quotes on, "The definition of happiness."
http://www.thehappyguy.com/definition-of-happiness.htmlHappy & Unhappy Sentence Strip ActivityTeaching idea: Cut and Paste to a Word document (for enlargement purposes) print it out and cut into sentence strips. Print a master copy of your happy sentences and number it. Be sure to number the individual sentence strips too. That way you can call out the number and the pairs can share with the class without giving away the sentence (oooo the suspense of it all.) Break the students up into pairs. Pass out the sentence strips. Tell the students to create an unhappiness sentence based on the information provided in their happiness sentence.
For example:
Happiness is contagious...when you reflect happiness, then all others around you catch the happy bug and are happy, too.Acceptable response: Unhappiness is contagious...when you reflect on unhappiness, then all others around you will catch the unhappy bug and are unhappy too.
Give them a few minutes to complete the activity and then let one student share the happiness sentence and one student share the unhappiness sentence aloud with the class. Depending on how many students you have in class, you can have them share it with the whole class, or break up into small groups to share. If you choose the small group method, you could set a timer and then have them switch the positive sentence with another pair to see how many variations of the unhappiness sentence can be derived from one happiness sentence. (Make sure they copy down the sentence number too, so you will know which is which.)