December 1-2

Objectives: Based on chapters 6 and 7 where Dorian tells Lord Henry and Basil about his engagement to Sibyl Vane and he also invites them to see her performance in the theater in Romeo and Juliet.
Students will identify significant literary elements (including foreshadowing, allusion, and irony) and use those elements to interpret the work.
Students will recognize, identify, and discuss the different levels of meaning in the text.
Students will apply the key terms of Homosexuality (Oscar Wilde was 19th century literature's most conspicuous homosexual), Aestheticism, and Decadents find evidence of it in the text.

Aim: How important is Wilde's credo "Art for Art sake" in Chapter six and What is the difference between Love and infatuation?

Do Now: begin a journal entry with I have been infatuated with... and the reason why.

Interpretive: Please cite sources/find text support for your answers.

Why does Lord Henry feels there is a class conflict between Dorian and Sibyl?

How can we compare and contrast both Sibyl and Dorian to Shakespeare's Juliet and Romeo?

"I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit" (Lord Henry)

Literary Device/techniques:
How is Dorian's feelings about Sibyl ironic?

How is the physical description of Sibyl a foreshadowing of her bad performance?

What allusions are referenced/cited in these chapters?

Comprehension:

How Does Dorian describes Sibyl's acting?

When Dorian confronts Sibyl what effect does it have on the his painting?

Connect:
How is Aestheticism and Decadence evident in Chapter six?

Critical Thinking:
How is Sibyl's acting like bad art?

What has truly caused Sibyl to quit or act badly?

Is Dorian truly in love with Sibyl or is he simply infatuated with her and WHY?

Cooperative Learning:
How is Homosexuality, Aestheticism, and Decadence evident in chapters six and seven? Cite sources.
use a four column chart to illustrate your findings.

Key term	Meaning	Support	Works Cited
Aestheticism
Decadence
Homosexuality

Homework:
Research: Analyze Dorian's relationship with Sibyl in the light of three very different mythological motifs: the stories of Actaeon and Artemis, Narcissus and Echo, and Adonis and Venus.


Note the literary Devices: Similes- hair clustered r ound face like dark leaves around a play rose; she trembled like a white narcissus; her body swayed...as a play sways in the water; drunkards chattering like a monstrous apes.
Personification- Nature.

Chapter 6 Vocabulary:

Infatuation - hobbies that they are passionately love to do.

Virtues - life and conduct to moral and ethical principles, uprightness, and rectitude.

Incorrigible - impervious to constraints or punishment.

Pompous - characterized by an ostentatious display of dignity or importance.

Spiritualize - investment with a spiritual meaning.

Interminable - will to be incapable of being terminated.

Fiasco - complete and ignominious failure.

Profanation - violation of sacred things.

Anodyne - medicine that relieves or allays pain.

Illusion - sight that deceives him/her/it by producing a false or misleading impression of reality.