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The Egyptian American International School

Grade 8
English Literature /Week 6
Academic Year 2022-2023

Drama
Pygmalion
Objectives

- Identifythe protagonist and the main antagonist in the play, and discuss the nature
of their conflict.
- Analyze the characteristics and influences of each juror.
- Identify the dramatic climax at the end of each act.
- Obtain a deeper understanding of the United States' legal system.
Table of contents
01 02
Intro to drama Pygmalion
What is drama ? Myth
01
Intro to
drama
What is drama ?
What is
Drama?
Watch the following video
https://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQoiRcehd54&ab_channel=
TheAudiopedia

What is the difference between


drama and novel?
What are the
elememets
ofDrama?
Watch the following video
https://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7UoCVbTJGk&ab_channel
=AndieWorsley

Think, Pair and Share


Watch the video and fill in the chart on
The next slide.
What is this topic about?

Plot Music

Characters Dialogue
“The ode lives upon the ideal, the
epic upon the grandiose, the drama
upon the real.”

Victor Hugo
550 BC
Was the period that Greek theatre began
flourishing
https://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCak93uE3tM&t=
10s
What are the
four types
ofDrama?
Watch the following video
https://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpk9sjamEL0&ab_channel=
Ms.Mar
Think, Pair and Share
Watch the video and fill in the chart on
The next slide.
Types of drama?
Comedy Tragedy

Tragicomedy Melodrama
Myth time
Who is
pygmalion ?
Difrentiated
activity
Watch the following video:
https://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCak93uE3tM&t=10s&ab_c
hannel=GeethanjaliKids-RhymesandStories

Group 1 : Change the ending of the myth in a form of a


dialogue ( two characters only)
Group 2 : Create a one act play
A look is worth a
thousand words
Lesson notes
Concepts

Comedy Tragedy Tragicomedy


● Tragedy is a type of drama in
● Comedy is a type of drama which the protagonist or hero
that aims to make the ● Unlike comedy and
is brought down by his/her
audience laugh. Its tone is flaws. tragedy, tragicomedy
light and it mostly has a emerged a bit later, in the
happy ending. The classic ● Murders, deaths, insanity, and times of the Roman
conception of comedy pain are among the most Empire. Roman dramatist
came from the Ancient common ideas in tragedies. Plautus was the first to
Greek theatre, where Main characters usually have write a tragicomedy and
comedy first emerged as a some kind of weakness or to use the term.
form of drama. defect that causes their
downfall.

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