The "At-Home" Episode
Opening
Share your response from the question during the previous lesson’s Closing with a partner.
- What is the impression Mrs. Higgins and the other guests have of Liza?
Share your response from the question during the previous lesson’s Closing with a partner.
A primary focus of today’s lesson is to broaden the issues of social class by looking at two very different short poems: “The Golf Links” by Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn and “For a Lady I Know” by Countee Cullen.
Write a paragraph.
Open Notebook
Work with a partner to reread your assigned poem and answer these questions.
Share your paragraph, explaining how irony contributes to the author’s meaning in your assigned poem with your partner.
Get together with another partner group that read the other poem and share your findings with that group.
Read each poem aloud and share each partner’s paragraph on irony.
Discuss the following questions.
Complete a Quick Write.
Open Notebook
Share your responses to the Quick Write with the whole class.
Then engage in a Whole Group Discussion about how social class is determined in the pieces you have read so far.
Finish reading and annotating act 3 with your triad group starting with “Pickering gasps and sits down.” Focus on places of confusion, references to social class, and vocabulary.
Use these questions to focus your reading and answer them in writing.
Open Notebook
Participate in a discussion with your classmates in which some of you share key points that you learned from meeting with the partner group that read the other poem.
Finish reading act 3 of Pygmalion if you have not done so already.
Continue your on-going homework assignment.