Works Cited Tyson, Hannah, and Mark Beverley. English A: literature: course companion. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012.

Debrief Oral Commentaries Criterion F: Language 5 points • How clear, varied and accurate is the language? • How appropriate is the choice of register and style? (“Register” refers, in this context, to the student’s use of elements such as vocabulary, tone, sentence structure and terminology appropriate to the commentary.) 0 The work does not reach a standard described by the descriptors below. 1 The language is rarely clear and appropriate, with many errors in grammar and sentence construction and little sense of register and style. 2 The language is sometimes clear and appropriate; grammar and sentence construction are generally accurate, although errors and inconsistencies are apparent; register and style are to some extent appropriate. 3 The language is mostly clear and appropriate, with an adequate degree of accuracy in grammar and sentence construction; the register and style are mostly appropriate. 4 The language is clear and appropriate, with a good degree of accuracy in grammar and sentence construction; register and style are effective and appropriate. 5 The language is very clear and entirely appropriate, with a high degree of accuracy in grammar and sentence construction; the register and style are consistently effective and appropriate. What do you imagine the IB designers were hoping for?

Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw

...there will be a test at the end so take some notes... The Cockney Accent ...there will be a test at the end so take some notes...

Linguistics In small groups, practice saying phrases in a cockney accent. Nominate one person to share with the whole group In small groups, discuss: What does and doesn’t the accent tell us about a cockney speaker? How does the way we speak effect the impressions others have of us? Give examples. Does gender factor in?

What is drama? No really, tell me, what is drama? Drama is a form, like poetry...it has arisen as a form of human expression in cultural traditions with roots in dance, music and poetry. Many tribal rights and indigenous practices include music, recitation or chants and dance, which can be called forms of dramatic presentation. The Natya Shastra is a work of Bharata, and it is a guide to the theatrical arts, written in Sanskrit around 200 BCE. Drama or plays almost always include: words in some form - prose or poetry, action embodied in performance, a receiver (an audience, a viewer, or sometimes a reader or listener). While you may be holding a play in your hands, it is an incomplete work of art until it is performed...so we will read the play in class and do some acting exercises.

This Unit: Assessments 1 Dramatic Group Project 2 Two Part Exam: Short Answer & Short Written 3 Class Work The project presentation will be delivered once the reading of the play is completed and will be graded based on elements of the IB Paper II Rubric. Groups will be assigned an act and theme to explore dramatically and analytically in their presentation. The exam will be given over two days at the end of the unit and will be graded based on elements of the IB Paper II Rubric Students may request that class work including notes, study guides and flash cards be reviewed for grade re-evaluation of the exam if students receive less than 75%. Completion of class work is part of the student’s evaluation and the study guide will be included in each student’s IB folder.

Kinds of Drama/Plays Three main types are tragedy, comedy and tragicomedy (also, “theatre of the absurd”, melodrama, farce and epic). It is important to remember that the individual work will never be a perfect representation of a definition of the form. But, definitions of the form do provide a frame within which you will consider and explore the play. With a play, in its dual nature as both words on a page and its performance, there are even more variables to take into account. Think of works of drama as existing on a spectrum and the types of drama as points on that spectrum.

Modern Drama (19th-20th Century) Realism: The attempt to show “life as it is really lived”, realism presents problems both for the playwright and for the audience. “A willing suspension of disbelief”, in the widest sense, is required in order for us to see on the stage or read in the script things that are contrived and arranged in a way that life can never be. Still, moments, actions, conversations can be presented in a play as replications of everyday human events and behavior. A move away from “romanticism” Naturalism: A product of French Novelist Emile Zola, the goal is to look clinically at the effects of birth and background on human behavior. Often, the force of society on characters is involved and the context and choices of the characters are tinged with pessimism.

The Audience (for now, you as the reader) There are complicated considerations in determining the effect on an audience. Who do we mean? Playwrights produce their work in time and space. Historical and cultural context will affect the way the play is received. For the purpose of IB lit., the only audience you really can know is a contemporary one, people of your own time, although research can give you some information about the original audience. For now, this term audience may describe you, a group of readers (the class) or a theatre audience. For the paper, dramatic conventions will give you ideas about addressing the plays as plays, and not just as texts.

The Conventions of Drama There are conventions that have to do with the text of the play and conventions that have to do with acting. Sometimes they overlap. Often they are connected to a particular historical period (the conventions of Greek theatre are not precisely the same as those of Elizabethan or modern theatre). However, we will explore them and strive to appropriately apply them to our work with Pygmalion. The following slide is a partial list of dramatic conventions that will most likely be included in IB Paper II questions in which genre and its conventions play a part.

Dramatic Conventions: Flash Card Assignment Create a digital or analog set of flash cards for the following terms: Conventions associated with the words written and spoken: Dialogue, Monologue, Soliloquy, Verbal Irony, Aside Conventions associated with the character portrayal: Protagonist, Antagonist, Stock Characters, Analepsis, Prolepsis, Foil Conventions associated with the action or plot of the play: Exposition, Rising action, Complication, Tension, Falling action, Denouement, Resolution, Prologue, Epilogue, Curtain lines, Dramatic Irony, Comic Relief Conventions associated with staging and performance: Set, Lighting, Sound, Stage Directions, Freeze Frame, Breaking of the Fourth Wall