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[|CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.3] Evaluate various explanations for actions or events and determine which explanation best accords with textual evidence, acknowledging where the text leaves matters uncertain. [|CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.6] Evaluate authors’ differing points of view on the same historical event or issue by assessing the authors’ claims, reasoning, and evidence. [|CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.9] Integrate information from diverse sources, both primary and secondary, into a coherent understanding of an idea or event, noting discrepancies among sources. =AIM= How does the mind use judgment to make propositions about perceptions and abstractions? =Do Now= Pick an object around the room. Concentrate on the object for 1 minute. Use contemplation to decide whether the object changes (in any way) during that 1 minute. After 1 minute, spend 2 minutes describing the object without naming it and any changes you saw during the minute. =Homework= Over the weekend, for Monday, find at least 5 abstractions that you see in commercial advertising. =Mini-Lesson= We use judgment to make implications about what we perceive. Let's define another term:
 * Standards **

**judgment** - making an implication about a perception

One judgment we made in the last class was to identify perceptions from abstractions. We generally found this more confusing than we thought. This confusion is how simple deceptions occur. In order to keep our thoughts clear and recognize perceptions from abstractions, we use judgment. Our judgment is based on the law of discrimination or relativity.

**Law of discrimination or relativity** - in order to perceive something with our 5 senses, there must be a change of perception. All perception is two-sided.

We can't know hot unless we know cold. If the temperature remains consistent, we forget about it. Change forces perception. A is A, but to know A, we must know what is not A. =Class Activity= In pairs, identify the opposite of each of these terms. Then attempt to describe each term without including any reference to its opposite.

Example: Hot Opposite: Cold Heat produces a feeling of warmth, which can be described as feeling more than what your body temperature is.

Light

Pleasure

Joy

Day

Dry

Slavery

Each pair will be called upon to offer their opposite and their description of 1 of the terms. Debate will ensue. =Closing= Reflect on why change is so important to perception. How can you use this knowledge to understand commercials better? (1/2pg) = Absence Make Up = In order to make up missed material, students need to do the following in their notebooks:
 * 1) Complete the Do Now.
 * 2) Copy the term Judgment & the Law of Discrimination or Relativity in your notebook.
 * 3) For each term in the Class Activity, write its opposite and a description of the term without referring to its opposite.
 * 4) Complete the closing reflection.

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