1. Perception First Impressions

2. Perception - Grade: 6 - Number of Students: 21 - Rural school in Spalding, mainly middle class - Gender Split: 12 Girls, 9 Boys - First Nations, Asian, and Caucasian students

3. Perception Awareness Sense Recognition Inexperienced Points of View

4. Outcome CR6.1 Create personal responses to a variety of arts expressions (e.g., respond to music using poetry, or respond to visual art using music). Indicator b: Recognize that cultural background and experiences affect responses to arts expressions and the understanding of symbols and meanings.

5. What influences our perceptions? Media Family Friends Experiences Stereotypes Culture

6. Can we change our perceptions?

7. Instructions Look at the images on the screen. What do you believe is happening in each photograph? Write the words or phrases that come to mind as you look at the pictures.

14. Now we will look at the original images Were your first perceptions accurate? What influenced your description of the picture?

15. http://www.google.ca/images?hl=en&q=child%20soldiers&rlz=1W1ACAW_enCA401 CA401&wrapid=tlif129713998012511&um=1&ie=UTF- 8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=963&bih=430

16. http://tohellmylovewithyou.wordpress.com/2010/12/05/iraqwikileaks/

17. http://www.google.ca/images?hl=en&biw=1276&bih=627&gbv=2&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=pict ures&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=

18. http://www.pwrdf.org/stories/stories-by-region/asia-pacific-stories/sri-lanka/

19. http://people.howstuffworks.com/hostage-negotiation.htm/printable

20. http://patternoflife.wordpress.com/2008/03/

21. NOW You will: -Take the descriptive and first though words and phrases that you wrote while looking at the pictures. -Using those words only create a FOUND POEM

22. Found poetry is a type of poetry created by taking words, phrases, and sometimes whole passages from other sources and reframing them as poetry.

23. -Pass your found poem to your neighbour. -Can you identify the way that your neighbour viewed the pictures? -What do you think influences their perceptions?