Pygmalion Revisited

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Pygmalion Revisited

• A GRASPS Examining Language and Class

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Goal

• Your goal is to develop a model/tool that will
  assess the speaking skills and class of
  individuals in current culture.

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Role

• Your and your partner are devotees of the work of
  Professor Henry Higgins and Colonel George
  Pickering. Inspired by their transformation of
  Eliza, you are seeking a subject to refine. You
  are looking for the roughest material to work
  with.

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Audience

• Your audience for this project will be your
  classmates and the project overseer, her majesty
  Mrs. Bradbury.

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Situation

• You and your partner are seeking a challenge.
  Inspired by the transformation of Eliza, you are
  seeking a subject to refine, and only the most
  desperate character will suffice.

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Procedures

• Brainstorm as many elements of refined speech as
  you can.
• Choose the best ten and build a model (chart in
  Word, Spreadsheet Rubric in Excel, Flow Chart,
  etc) using these as your grading criteria.
• Develop a scale (point values for each criterion
  and rankings for totals).
• Beta Test your model using the passage uttered by
  Mr. Doolittle on page 35 of your book.

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Procedures

• Discuss your findings with the large group.
• Then test your model on at least 4 more subjects.
  
• One must be from campus
• Two may be celebrities or public figures or
  characters
• Perform your tests in such a way that you can
  actually listen to the potential candidate for a
  duration of five minutes or more, but do not tell
  them what you are up to.
• Record your findings and bring them with you to
  class tomorrow.
• Write a paragraph addressing the following The
  strengths of your model, the winner, and
  rationale

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Standards for Success

• __/10 Criteria are logical, insightful and
  appropriate
• __/10 Model is easy to use and effective,
  glitches were addressed after the beta test
• __/10 Five additional subjects were used for the
  model
• __10 Findings paragraph addresses necessary
  elements