Unit 1.pdf - Southwest High School

Activity
1.2 Perception Is Everything
SUGGESTED Learning Strategies: Think-Pair-Share,
Summarizing/Paraphrasing, Quickwrite
Literary terms
Perception is a mental
concept or point of view.
An aphorism is a succinct statement expressing an opinion, perception,
or general truth. Choose five aphorisms that you especially like from
the following list. In your group, paraphrase the quotes you have
chosen, and explain how the quotes relate to the ideas of seeing and
understanding.
• “What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are
standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are.”
— C. S. Lewis
• “The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in
having new eyes.” — Marcel Proust
• “You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice
because thorns have roses.” — Tom Wilson
• “All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.”
— Richard Avedon
• “There are things known and there are things unknown, and in
between are the doors of perception.” — Aldous Huxley
• “The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
— Henri Bergson
• “Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window
through which you must see the world.” — George Bernard Shaw
• “Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from
the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part)
always comes out of our own mind.” — William James
• “Language forces us to perceive the world as men present it to
us.” — Julia Penelope
• “If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat
different world.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Timed Writing: Choose one quote from the list and write a response
about the truth it conveys. You will have 15 minutes. Use prewriting
strategies to structure your ideas quickly. Remember to use appropriate
rhetorical devices and effective transitions to maintain the flow of
ideas and to convey meaning to your readers. Then create an original
aphorism expressing your perception or a general truth about the world.
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