Book Choices for Group Oral Presentation. First Assignment

Timing: The presentations will be during the 6 classes from Monday, January xx, through Friday, February xx.

Six Books for Six Teams:

  1. Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson

  2. Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business, by Charles Duhigg

  3. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection, by Charles Duhigg

  4. The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt

  5. The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us About How and When This Crisis Will End, by Neil Howe

  6. Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong about the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling

First Assignment, Due 11 PM, January xx

1. Write a few sentences about what drew you to this class and what you hope to learn and get out of it. 

2. List in order your 1st, 2d and 3d choices for the additional book you want to read and do a group presentation on. 

3. Write a few sentences on why you are particularly interested in reading your 1st choice. (Optional: you can write about your 2d and 3d choices, too if you want to.)