Winner of the 2012 NAGC Curriculum Studies Award In the Mind's Eye:
Truth Versus Perception invites students on a philosophical
exploration of the themes of truth and perception. Lessons include
a major emphasis on rigorous evidence-based discourse through the
study of common themes and content-rich, challenging informational
and fictional texts. This unit, developed by Vanderbilt
University's Programs for Talented Youth and aligned to the Common
Core State Standards (CCSS), applies concepts from Plato's
"Allegory of the Cave" to guide students to discover how reality is
presented and interpreted in fiction, nonfiction, art, and media.
Students engage in activities such as Socratic seminars, literary
analyses, skits, and art projects, and creative writing to
understand differing perceptions of reality. Lessons include close
readings with text-dependent questions, choice-based differentiated
products, rubrics, formative assessments, and ELA tasks that
require students to analyze texts for rhetorical features, literary
elements, and themes through argument, explanatory, and
prose-constructed writing. Ideal for pre-AP and honors courses, the
unit features art from M.C. Escher and Vincent Van Gogh, short
stories from Guy de Maupassant and Shirley Jackson, longer texts by
Daniel Keyes and Ray Bradbury, and informational texts related to
sociology, Nazi propaganda, and Christopher Columbus. This unit
encourages students to translate learning to real-life contexts and
problems by exploring themes of disillusionment, social deception,
and the power of perception. Grades 6-8
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