1. WRITE FOR 10
Judging by images shown on TV and in movies and advertisements, there are few things our society prizes more highly than physical beauty. In your opinion, why do we value physical beauty so highly? What relationship does it have to inner beauty?

2. Written by Edmond Rostand
Cyrano de Bergerac
Written by Edmond Rostand
Based on real person: Hercule-Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac
Heroic Comedy or Romantic Tragedy

3. REVIEW Elements
1. Understand elements of drama (Tragedy, comedy, soliloquy, monologue, foil, protagonist, antagonist, dramatic irony, stage directions, setting, theme, etc.) 2. Demonstrate understanding of a character in a play by verbal and nonverbal techniques (Direct and indirect characterization, conflict, etc.) 3. Understand figurative language (Simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, imagery) 4. Understand, define, and identify elements of the tragic hero (Tragic flaw, fall, epiphany, free choice, catharsis, punishment exceeds crime, tragedy) 5. Understand themes, motifs and symbols

4. THEMES, MOTIFS & SYMBOLS
What central messages about life do we learn from Rostand about the following thematic ideas? Values and Virtues Inner and Outer Beauty Deception Unrequited Love
How do the following motifs and symbols support the themes? Motifs: Society The Letters Fighting and War Symbols: Cyrano’s Nose Tears and Blood

5. Let’s Talk about themes
Hitch “Online”-Brad Paisley “You Belong with Me” -Taylor Swift “Say” -John Mayer “Invisible Man”-98 “Everything You Want” –Vertical Herizon

6. Essential Vocabulary
Panache Plume Cadet Tankard Coquettish Plagiarist Scabbard Bravado Protuberance Grandiloquent

7. PANACHE
pa·nache noun 1. a grand or flamboyant manner; verve; style; flair: The actor who would play Cyrano must have panache. 2. an ornamental plume of feathers, tassels, or the like, especially one worn on a helmet or cap. Panache, the word for “white plumes” in French, literally denotes the plumes above a soldier’s headgear. But it also refers to a certain flair or swagger that serves as the outward sign of a person’s noble internal qualities. The “white plumes” that adorn Cyrano’s hat symbolize freedom, his good name, the deeds that decorate or clothe his soul, his bristling wit, his courage, truth–in short, all that is noble in Cyrano’s character. In the end of Rostand’s play Cyrano has nothing left but his panache. The French, they say, have a word for it. To sum up dash, flamboyance, swagger and verve, that word is “panache.”

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