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 Catfish catfishing America?
Report says Catfish is faked
By 6:45 in catfish episode, you have them determine that they don’t think it is Bow Wow.

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
Remember to review the map and the key vocabulary terms. We want a better activity that has more interaction detailed than what is written above, but I’m tapped out right now- CBOWE

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?