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UNIT 2: Knowing the World

UNIT 2: Knowing the World. How is it ever possible to separate the truth from artifice? . ARTIFICE. Using your device, find a definition or an example for this term. . Spoiler Alert! The Sixth Sense.

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UNIT 2: Knowing the World

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  1. UNIT 2: Knowing the World How is it ever possible to separate the truth from artifice?

  2. ARTIFICE • Using your device, find a definition or an example for this term.

  3. Spoiler Alert! The Sixth Sense Malcom Crowe is a child psychologist who receives an award on the same night that he is visited by a very unhappy ex-patient. After this encounter, Crowe takes on the task of curing a young boy with the same ills as the ex-patient. This boy "sees dead people". Crowe spends a lot of time with the boy (Cole) much to the dismay of his wife. Cole's mom is at her wit's end with what to do about her son's increasing problems. Crowe is the boy's only hope. (From IMDB plot summary) However… Sixth Sense Ending

  4. So, how did Malcolm seem to realize that everything he thought was true, wasn’t?

  5. Catfish – the TV show is based on finding out the truth behind internet artifice. • Catfish episode with Bow Wow • BUT – is Catfishcatfishing America? Report says Catfish is faked

  6. How do we see through the artifice, the illusions and our own limited perspectives to see the objective truth? • You have to ANALYZE and EVALUATE. • What you see and think you see isn’t always the reality or truth.

  7. Unit Project – The Stories We Tell • You’ll be examining ONE event that has occurred during the years you have been alive from multiple perspectives, including your own. • This is a research project which requires you to develop interview questions, conduct interviews with several people, mainly adults, and create a showcase of the story you will be telling. • You will develop a message (main idea, lesson, claim) that you learned from the multiple perspectives on that event.

  8. Unit Map Review: • Guess the question focus based on the title and the key focus areas

  9. “A Possibility of Evil” • Perspective • Word Choice • Characterization

  10. “A Rose for Emily” • Details • Subtle implications

  11. “Yellow Wallpaper” • Unreliable narrator

  12. Informational articles • Analyzing perspective

  13. All Quiet on the Western Front • Shifting perspectives • Main character

  14. I Am Legend • Dialogue • Reflection • Perception

  15. The Lemon Tree • Conflict • Perspective • Sympathy (mood)

  16. Articles on the Unmanned Drone Strikes • Perspective • Conclusions (generalizations)

  17. Ticket out • Why do we need to know our world and to be able to separate truth from artifice?

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