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Give detailed characteristics of each category.



JK Role play

Project yourself into the skin of one of the characters and act the part out.

GHDiscussion

Do you agree that: “Teaching is a profession for the Displaced“?

Use supplementary material pp. 121-125.

 

& Reading 3

EXTRACT ONE

This extract comes from a play about life in a convent school in London in the 1950s.

Read the following extract, stopping at each STOP. Each time, predict what you expect to follow - cover the next piece of text and answer the question. Then read on, and check if your prediction was correct. When you have finished reading, compare your predictions with those of your partner. How many did each of you get right?

MOTHER PETER: Now. Who’s going to tell me what day it is today? Mary Mooney.

MARY MOONEY: It’s Tuesday, Mother Peter.

MOTHER PETER: Oh, sit down, you little simpleton and think before you speak. Will somebody with a bit of sense please tell me what day it is today? [Long pause.] Well? Doesn’t the eighth of September ring a bell? A very important bell indeed. [Pause.] Evidently it does not.

STOP 1 Why do you think September 8th is such an important day for Mother Peter?

 

Oh, aren’t you the fine pack of heathens! It’s Our Blessed Lady’s birthday, that’s what day it is. I hope you’re all ashamed of yourselves. Is this an example of the standard I can expect from form 5A this year? I hope you realize that this is the most crucial year of your academic life. In January you’ll be sitting the mоск О level exams. And in June the О levels proper. And I don’t intend to have any failures in my form. Any girl showing signs of imbecility will be sent straight down to 5B. And see will that get you to Oxford or Cambridge. Of course, nobody ever passed any exam of their own accord.

STOP 2 What do you think Mother Peter considers necessary for passing exams?

Only prayer will get results. The best thing each one of you can do is to pick out a particular saint and pray to him or her to get you through. Your Confirmation saint, perhaps, or any saint you fancy. But not St Peter the Apostle, if you wouldn’t mind.

STOP 3 Why do you think Mother Peter tells the class not to pray to St Peter the Apostle?

He’s my saint, so he is, and don’t any of you go annoying him now. We’ve a great understanding, myself and Peter. He’s never let me down in all the years I’ve been beseeching him for favours. Oh, he’s a wonderful man and a glorious martyr. I’m mad about him. Now you must be prepared for a heavy burden of homework all this year. At least three hours every evening. Plus revision. And double that amount at the weekend. If any girl has ideas about serving behind the counter of a Woolworth on a Saturday she can put such ideas right out of her head. Under no circumstances will Mother Thomas Aquinas give permission for a girl from Our Lady of Fatima to take on a job of work. Anyway, your parents have a duty to provide you with sufficient pocket money. They also have a duty to supply you with the correct school uniform, which must be obtained from Messrs Houlihan and Hegarty and only Messrs Houlihan and Hegarty. There’s no greater insult to this school than to see a girl dressed up in a shoddy imitation of the uniform. Mary Mooney, step up here to me and face the class.

[mary mooney comes forward and stands next to mother peter’s desk. She is wearing a large, shapeless hand-knitted cardigan and a thick pair of striped, knitted knee-length socks.]

STOP 4 Why do you think Mother Peter calls Mary Mooney up before the class?

Will you look at this girl’s cardigan! Who knitted you that monstrosity, Mary Mooney?

MARY MOONEY: My mother, Mother Peter.

MOTHER PETER: Did she now? Have you no school cardigan to wear?

MARY MOONEY: No, Mother Peter.

 

MOTHER PETER: Will you please inform your mother that she must order you two school cardigans from Houlihan and Hegarty immediately. And don’t dare come into school wearing that thing again.

MARY MOONEY: No, Mother. Sorry, Mother, [MARY MOONEY goes off.]

MOTHER PETER: Come back here a minute, [MARY MOONEY comes back.] Mary Mooney, have you joined a football team?

MARY MOONEY: No, Mother.

MOTHER PETER: Well, what are those horrible socks doing on your feet? Is this another example of your mother’s handiwork?

MARY MOONEY: Yes, Mother.

MOTHER PETER: God help the girl. Isn’t her mother a martyr for the knitting. Go back to your place now and don’t ever let me see you wearing socks like that again.

MARY MOONEY: No, Mother. Sorry, Mother.

4 Do the following exercises

Work with your partner to decide if each of the following

Interpretations is correct or not. Give your grounds.

a) “Oh, sit down you little simpleton and think before you speak.”

Mother Peter says this because Mary Mooney has said the wrong day of the week.

b) [Long pause.] [Pause.]

This tells us that the girls in the class are too scared to answer.

c) “Oh, aren’t you the fine pack of heathens! ”

Mother Peter says this as criticism of the girls’ ignorance of religious matters.

d) “I’m mad about him”.

Mother Peter means she is in love with him.

e) “Mary Mooney, have you joined a football team? ”

Mother Peter says this in a sarcastic tone of voice.

Work with your partner to do the following exercise.

a) Look at what Mother Peter says in the sentences before and after the STOP signs. Does she always continue in the way that a reader would expect? In each case can you see anything funny about the way she continues? If so, can you explain why it is funny?

b) In each case how would you describe the humour? Use one of the words below to help you, or add your own.

gentle harmless ironic ridiculous unkind

EXTRACT TWO

This extract comes from a novel about a teacher who worked at a girls’

school in Edinburgh in the early 1930s.

Read the following extract, stopping at each STOP. Each time, predict what you expect to follow -cover the next piece of text and answer the question by ticking one of the two boxes. Then read on and check if your prediction was correct. When you have finished reading, compare your predictions with those of your partner. How many did each of you get right?

 

The term opened vigorously as usual. Miss Brodie stood bronzed before her class and said, I have spent most of my summer holidays in Italy once more, and a week in London, and I have brought back a great many pictures which we can pin on the wall. Here is a Cimabue.

STOP 1 What follows?

An explanation of the picture: likely

Unlikely

Here is a larger formation of Mussolini’s fascisti, it is a better view of them than that of last year’s picture. They are doing splendid things, as I shall tell you later. I went with my friends for an audience with the Pope. My friends kissed his ring but I thought it proper only to bend over it.

STOP 2 What follows?

An explanation of why she did not kiss his ring: likely

Unlikely

I wore a long black gown with a lace mantilla and looked magnificent. Mussolini is one of the greatest men in the world, far more so than Ramsay MacDonald, and his fascisti.

“Good morning, Miss Brodie. Good morning, sit down, girls, ” said the headmistress who had entered in a hurry, leaving the door wide open.

“I have only just looked in, said Miss Mackay, and I have to be off. Well, girls, this is the first day of the new session. Are we downhearted? No. You, girls, must work hard this year at every subject and pass your qualifying examination with flying colours. Next year you will be in the senior school, remember. I hope you’ve all had a nice summer holiday, you all look nice and brown. I hope in due course of time to read your essays on how you spent them”.

When she had gone Miss Brodie looked hard at the door for a long time. A girl, not of her set, called Judith, giggled. Miss Brodie said to Judith, “That will do.” She turned to the blackboard and rubbed out with her duster the long division sum she always kept on the blackboard in case of intrusions from outside during any arithmetic periods when Miss Brodie should happen not to be teaching arithmetic. When she had done this she turned back to the class and said, “Are we downhearted, no. As I was saying, Mussolini has performed feats of magnitude and unemployment is even farther abolished under him than it was last year. I shall be able to tell you a great deal this term. As you know, I don’t believe in talking down to children, you are capable of grasping more than is generally appreciated by your elders.

STOP 3 What follows?


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