Glengarry Glen Ross Grade 11 | 1260l Fixed

Blake’s infamous speech is often censored for profanity, but the fixed version retains its core rhetorical power. At 1260L, students analyze how Blake uses imperative verbs and sports metaphors ("Second place is a set of steak knives") to dehumanize the salesmen. Discussion prompt: Is Blake a villain or a motivator?

Since the Lexile is fixed and consistent, you can move faster.

You cannot teach this play without addressing the two massive ethical questions: Profanity and Criminality. glengarry glen ross grade 11 1260l fixed

The C-Word (Crime): In Act 2, the office is robbed. Leads are stolen. In the fixed 1260L version, the language around the burglary is made explicit: "This constitutes fraud and burglary." This allows for a crisp legal/elementary debate.

Grade 11 Debate:

Objective: Students will decode 10 "tier-two" words from the fixed 1260L text.

In the first scene, Levene begs for "good leads." In the fixed text: Blake’s infamous speech is often censored for profanity,

"You are denying me the premium sales leads. Without those, my performance metrics become untenable. I am a proven closer, and you are treating me with contempt."

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