Do Now 11-25-08

Aim: Which one of the seven deadly sins is most evident so far in Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray?
I think that the lust is the most evident sin in Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray.
That's because he uses his body to pursue his curiosity of pleasure.


Do Now: Have you ever had a friend whose girlfriend/boyfriend/significant other who you did not like? Were you envious of their relationship? Did you experience any of the seven deadly sins?

Discussion Questions:Identify members of Sibyl Vane’s family and analyze their interrelationships.Examine the various reactions of Sibyl, Mrs. Vane, and Jim toward Dorian.

They discuss her relationship with Dorian Gray. Sibyl calls him Prince Charming.
James Vane tells Sibyl's mother to be a guard of Sibyl. If anyone harms Sibyl James vows to kill
that person.

Sibyl Vane’s family:
Mrs. Vane: Sibyl's mother. She is happy when Sybyl is happy.
James Vane: Sibyl's large and brach brother. He is really protective.

Critical Response: Examine the universality of the statement, “Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”

I think that this quote means that when children are young they know that they have support from their parents and follow the steps of their parents. However, when they start to grow up they start getting different prespectives of life. They want to make their own descions and tend to not listen to there parents anymore. Then they start juding there parents saying what they believe is different then what the parent believes.


Cooperative Learning: We identified the seven deadly sins of Pride, Avarice (greed), Envy, Wrath (anger), Lust, Gluttony, Sloth. Please use the magazines in our classroom and cut out images OR Draw illustrations that you think represents each sin.


Identify at least 4 similes in chapter 5.Vocabulary words you may need to know for Chapter 6Infatuation, virtues, incorrigible, pompous, spiritualize, interminable, fiasco, profanation, anodyne, illusion.

Similes of Chapter 5:
“He was like a common gardener walking with a rose.”
The tulip-beds across the road flamed like throbbing rings of fire.
The brightly coloured parasols danced and dipped like monstrous butterflies.
I will find out who he is, track him down, and kill him like a dog.
I am as happy to-day as you were twenty years ago.


Vocabulary for chapter 6:
1- Infatuation: foolish or all-absorbing passion or an instance of this.
2- Virtues- moral excellence; goodness; righteousness.
3- Incorrigible- not corrigible; bad beyond correction or reform.
4- Pompous- characterized by an ostentatious display of dignity or importance.
5- Spiritualize- to make spiritual.
6- Interminable- incapable of being terminated; unending.
7- Fiasco- a complete and ignominious failure.
8- Profanation- the act of profaning; desecration; defilement; debasement.
9- Anodyne- a medicine that relieves or allays pain.
10- Illusion- something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality.