______________________________________Anticipation Guide for George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion

Before reading: In the space to the left of each statement, place a check mark if you agree or think the
statement is true. You may check the blank, but have exceptions in mind, of course.

During or after reading: Add new check marks or cross through those about which you have changed your
mind. Keep in mind that this is not like the traditional “worksheet.” This is a critical thinking exercise, so
it will require some work. Use the space under each statement to note the pages where you are finding
information to support your thinking.

_____ 1. Speaking well helps businessmen (and women) make money.

_____ 2. Accents do not affect how people from the South are judged (or black people, or New Yorkers,
or American Indians, or people from India, or English people, or…).

_____ 3. Parents have a profound impact on their children, whether they realize it or not.

_____ 4. Musicals are ideal for audiences to experience emotion.

_____ 5. Alcohol can devastate a family structure permanently—and for generations to come.

_____ 6. British people are extremely arrogant about being British, generally speaking.

_____ 7. Hope is the most powerful inner feeling.

_____ 8. In their professions, strippers are actually expressing feminine power. (Instead of being
objectified and disrespected.)

_____ 9. Teachers must have patience to be effective.

_____ 10. When parents become “Good Cop” and “Bad Cop,” a good connection is established with their
children.

_____ 11. Because they colonized a lot of places on the globe, own many of the best authors in history,
and have spectacular museums and taste, the British are the most sophisticated people in existence.

_____ 12. Poor people should just work harder; anyone in any country can “make it” if they simply work
harder to earn a living.

_____ 13. Pursuit of Happyness with Will and Jaden Smith should really be called “Pursuit of Money.”
_____ 14. A narrative needs romance to be appealing to women.

_____ 15. To feel need is basic human nature.

_____ 16. To need love has never been—and never will be—basic human nature.

_____ 17. The Blue Man Group is worth every penny of their ticket price.

_____ 18. No music group is worth a $150 ticket.

_____ 19. Words can hurt much more than sticks and stones.

_____ 20. There is a fine line between infatuation and stalking.

_____ 21. Plays can make us examine our own emotions.

_____ 22. The arts should be expanded at BVHS: more plays, solos, ensembles, theatres, backdrops,
stages, galleries, lectures, displays, and so on.

_____ 23. Drama on the stage is life. Staged drama is more “real” than what the viewing audience did
before they came to the theatre.

_____ 24. Harshness, or tough love, is good for people.

_____ 25. Mythology is fascinating.