PygmalionMy Fair Lady

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Pygmalion/My Fair Lady

• By
• Gana Harris

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• Lesson ObjectivesCA E4-4Bhttp//owensville.k12.m
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  culum/Communications/englishIV.htmhttp//owensvill
  e.k12.mo.us/r2curriculum The student will compose
  a compare/contrast essay following the reading of
  Pygmalion and watching My Fair Lady
• The student will understand the historical
  context of drama.
• The student will understand the character
  development.
• The student will understand characters
  attitudes.
• The student will made inferences about
  characters.
• The student will understand compare/contrast
  characters.

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Historical Context of the Drama

• Set in England in 1913.
• Addresses middle-class morality in London.
• Points out the class system that dominated
  English society in 1913.
• Uses real places and people that have been
  fictionalized.
• Relevant to 1913 social attitudes, social
  conditions, and social values.

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Act I Vocabulary

• conciliatory
• derisive
• repudiation
• cryptograms
• prodigious

• didactic
• plutocracy
• impertinent
• mendacity
• prodigal

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Journal Writing Write your thoughts on these
questionsWhat motivates people to change?Why
do people decide to alter the way they look,
behave, or evenspeak?
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Act I
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Act I Assignment

• Responding to the Selection p. 980
• Answer questions 1-9
• Analyzing Literature pp 980-981
• Answer questions 1-3

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Act II Vocabulary

• impetuous
• petulance
• peremptorily
• zephyr

• elocution
• remonstrance
• presumptuous

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Act II
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Journal Writing Dialect reveals a lot about a
person in the play how important is a persons
dialect in todays society?
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Assignment

• Answer Responding to the Selection questions
  (1-8) page 1002.

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Act III

• pretension
• cynical
• imprecations

• somnambulist
• morosely
• incorrigible

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Journal WritingList style and habits that you
find especially laughable in people and
situations. Then pin point the features of an
individual that seems silly, unreasonable, or
unfair. (Use no real names).
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Act III
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Assignment

• Answer Responding to the Selection questions
  (1-7) page 1019
• Answer Analyzing Literature (1-3) page 1019
• Answer Critical Thinking and Reading (1-5)
  page 1019

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Act IV Vocabulary

• cant
• dudgeon
• perfunctorily

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Journal Writing Imagine you are sitting in a
theatre watching this play. The curtain has come
down on Act III. During the intermission you
turn to the person sitting next to you and
discuss the play. Create a conversation in which
both of you provide ideas on what will happen
next.
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Act IV
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Assignment

• Answer Responding to the Selection questions
  (1-7) page 1028
• Answer Analyzing Literature questions (1-2)
  page 1029
• Answer Critical Thinking and Reading
• (1-4) page 1029

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Act V Vocabulary

• resplendently
• vehement
• magnanimous
• transfiguration
• coquetting

• impetuous
• transcendence
• odious
• pretentious

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Journal Writing How will the play end? Based on
the first four acts, make up your own ending. Be
sure to answer the following questions in you
ending What will become of Eliza? What will
become of Higgins? What will become of Freddy?
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Act V
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Epilogue
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Assignment

• Answer Responding to the Selection questions
  (5,8) page 1054

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Transitions

• Directions for each of the following pairs of
  sentences, insert a transition to establish a
  relationship or link an idea.
• Mrs. Higgins believes in exercising proper
  decorum and practicing the social graces.
  ____________________she is distressed by Henrys
  rude speech and behavior.

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Transitions Continued

• Henry Higgins is a celebrated phonetician with a
  worldwide reputation.___________,
• he shows an active disregard for other
  peoples feelings.
• Eliza knew that her Cockney accent and East End
  upbringing would thwart her dreams.
  _____________, she recognized that if she wanted
  to be a lady in a flower shop, she would have to
  be transformed.

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Transitions Continued

• Alfred Doolittle calls himself one of the
  undeserving poor._____________, he uses his
  status as the reason why he should receive only
  five pounds in payment for his daughter.
• Eliza thanks Pickering not only for his
  generosity but for this really nice manners.
  She reminds him,______________, that he never
  removed his boots in the dining room when she
  was present.

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Transitions Continued Select one of the
characters from Pygmalion, and write a
paragraph about how the character is developed
through the course of the play. Use transitions
to establish clarity of thought and smoothness of
flow.
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My Fair Lady
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Questions Before the Movie

• Use five adjectives, describe how a man should
  treat a woman.
• Use five adjectives, describe how a father should
  treat his daughter.

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Discussion After the Movie

• Higgins An Englishmans way of speaking
  absolutely classifies him. Do you agree with
  this-not just about the English, but about people
  in general?

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Questions for Discussion After the Movie

• How important is cleanliness to a persons
  character? Defend you answer.
• In modern society, is it thought odd for people
  who have a great deal of money to associate with
  those who are poor?
• Doolittle I give er everythinI give er the
  greatest gift a human being can give to another
  life? Do you agree with Doolittle that life is
  the greatest gift a human being can give another
  human? If you disagree, what do you think is
  the greatest gift?

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Discussion After the Movie Continued

• Higgins What could possibly matter more than to
  take a human being and change her into a
  different human being by crating a new speech for
  her? Its filling up the deepest gap that
  separates class from class and soul from soul.
  Do you agree or disagree that different methods
  of speech constitute the greatest gap that
  separates class from class? Is the Same true for
  the separation of soul from soul?

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Discussion After the Movie Continued

• Eliza Mrs. Higgins, apart from the things one
  can pick up, the difference between a lady and a
  flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she
  is treated? Do you agree or disagree with Liza?

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DiscussionCompare and contrast My Fair Lady to
the well-known story of Cinderella
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Writing Assignment

• Write a compare and contrast essay, using the
  play, Pygmalion and the movie My Fair Lady
  to develop a true character profile of (choose a
  character of you choice)

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Scoring Guide
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Lesson Summary
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References

• Kinsella, Kate, Kevin Feldman, Colleen Shea Stump
  and Joyce Armstrong Carroll. Eds. Literature The
  British
• Tradition. Upper Saddle River
• Prentice Hall, Inc., 2002.

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