Objectives: Students will read and write for understanding and literary response.Discuss comprehension and critical thinking questions.Identify and illustrate the seven deadly sins.Background: Sibyl, her mother, Mrs. Vane, and James (Jim), discuss her relationship with Dorian whom she calls Prince Charming. Jim, cautions her mother to guard Sibyl, and vows to kill anyone who harms her.Aim: Which one of the seven deadly sins is most evident so far in Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray?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.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.”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.
7 deadly sins
Meaning
Image
Why do you think this image represents this sin
Identify this sin in Dorian Gray
Cite sources
Pride
Avarice
Envy
Wrath
Lust
Gluttony
Sloth
Connect to self: Which of the seven are you guilty of TODAY?Homework: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.
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