This is the lesson to accompany the story "The Model Millionaire " by Oscar Wilde and may include extra excerpts from songs and poems as comprehension questions and language development. The actual story in not included here; this lesson is for after reading the story. Created by Coleman’s Classroom.

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The Model Millionaire
Oscar
Wilde

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Oscar Wilde
1854-1900
“Ordinary riches
can be stolen; real
riches cannot. In
your soul are
infinitely precious
things that cannot
be taken from
you.”

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Some of His Writing
• The Picture of Dorian Gray
• The Importance of Being Ernest
• An Ideal Husband

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Idiomatic Phrases
Not home to anyone
Doesn’t want to see anyone
American Idiom
Lights are on but no one is home
Not very smart person

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Literary Terms: Alliteration
Words that begin with the same
sound.
▫Careful Catherine cares for her
cat.

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Literary Terms: Repetition
Repeating words or phrases for
emphasis.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_umeCKLIU8

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Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

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Alliteration or Repetition?
What you can rags, I call
romance. What seems poetry to
you is picturesqueness to me.

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Some Themes
•Money isn’t everything
•Giving has unexpected benefits
•Kindness is always appreciated
•Other?

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Who?
•Hughie Erskie
•Alan Trevor
•Laura Merton
•Colonel Merton
•The Beggar (Baron Hausberg)
•Gustave Naudin

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When / Where?
• 1900s
• Europe

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What
• Hughie is poor
• He does a good deed
• It pays off greatly

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Why?
Hughie
Feels bad for
beggar who is
even poorer
than himself
Baron Hausberb
Touched by
kind act

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Discussion ?s
Suppose instead of giving Hughie the
money, the Baron gave him a job at
one of his banks. Then Hughie worked
for years to save the money to marry
Laura.
• How would this change the tone
and ending of the story?
• How would it change the moral?

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Discussion ?s
• If you had a friend in Hughie’s
situation, with his job history and
his good/bad qualities, what would
your advice be to him?
• If you had a friend in Laura’s
situation, before Hughie got the
money, what would your advice be
to her?

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