To begin, read and annotate both articles, looking for ideas that interest you and connect to your own experiences.
Then, choose a specific interest area or group of people to focus on (for example: children, nurses, students, cancer patients, Canadians, etc. You can pick any group that you are interested in or have a connection to).
Choose a specific gratitude practice introduced in the articles.
Find an additional article online that discusses either the specific group of people or the specific gratitude practice or both! You might try searching for the people + gratitude (Ex: nurses and gratitude OR children and gratitude journals).
Goals:

To write an argumentative essay that defends a stance and uses support from articles and personal experiences/observations
Use textual support from at least two articles in the form of summary, paraphrase and quotation. (You can use one or both of the articles provided above, in addition to the article you find.)
Explain the benefits of a specific gratitude practice for a specific population. The emphasis on the word “specific” means that the paper should emphasize the particular challenges for the population the writer chooses and how gratitude uniquely benefits the group.