Pygmalion Anticipation Guide

______________________________________Anticipation Guide for George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion Before reading: In the space to the left of each statement, place a check mark if you agree or think the statement is true. You may check the blank, but have exceptions in mind, of course. During or after reading: Add new check marks or cross through those about which you have changed your mind. Keep in mind that this is not like the traditional “worksheet.” This is a critical thinking exercise, so it will require some work. Use the space under each statement to note the pages where you are finding information to support your thinking. _____ 1. Speaking well helps businessmen (and women) make money. _____ 2. Accents do not affect how people from the South are judged (or black people, or New Yorkers, or American Indians, or people from India, or English people, or…). _____ 3. Parents have a profound impact on their children, whether they realize it or not. _____ 4. Musicals are ideal for audiences to experience emotion. _____ 5. Alcohol can devastate a family structure permanently—and for generations to come. _____ 6. British people are extremely arrogant about being British, generally speaking. _____ 7. Hope is the most powerful inner feeling. _____ 8. In their professions, strippers are actually expressing feminine power. (Instead of being objectified and disrespected.) _____ 9. Teachers must have patience to be effective. _____ 10. When parents become “Good Cop” and “Bad Cop,” a good connection is established with their children. _____ 11. Because they colonized a lot of places on the globe, own many of the best authors in history, and have spectacular museums and taste, the British are the most sophisticated people in existence. _____ 12. Poor people should just work harder; anyone in any country can “make it” if they simply work harder to earn a living. _____ 13. Pursuit of Happyness with Will and Jaden Smith should really be called “Pursuit of Money.”

_____ 14. A narrative needs romance to be appealing to women. _____ 15. To feel need is basic human nature. _____ 16. To need love has never been—and never will be—basic human nature. _____ 17. The Blue Man Group is worth every penny of their ticket price. _____ 18. No music group is worth a $150 ticket. _____ 19. Words can hurt much more than sticks and stones. _____ 20. There is a fine line between infatuation and stalking. _____ 21. Plays can make us examine our own emotions. _____ 22. The arts should be expanded at BVHS: more plays, solos, ensembles, theatres, backdrops, stages, galleries, lectures, displays, and so on. _____ 23. Drama on the stage is life. Staged drama is more “real” than what the viewing audience did before they came to the theatre. _____ 24. Harshness, or tough love, is good for people. _____ 25. Mythology is fascinating.