TENESSEE WILLIAMS’ A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE

1. TERMINOLOGY: onomatopoeia, repetition, alliteration, sibilance, simile, metaphor, personification, personal pronoun, feminism, rhetoric, proleptic irony CONTEXT TERMS: misogyny, equality, gender equality, segregation, marginalisation, segregation, discrimination, alienation, polygamy TENESSEE WILLIAMS’ A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE LQ: Do I understand the context of the play and can I predict, using social and historical context, the struggles that will be presented?

2. TERMINOLOGY: onomatopoeia, repetition, alliteration, sibilance, simile, metaphor, personification, personal pronoun, feminism, rhetoric CONTEXT TERMS: misogyny, equality, gender equality, segregation, marginalisation, segregation, discrimination, alienation, polygamy CONTEXTUAL TERMS: colonisation, independence, missionaries, post-colonial, racism, Empire, Victorian, Igbo, traditional custom STRUGGLES: race, cultural domination, alienation, religion Tennessee Williams A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE LQ: Do I understand the context of the play and can I predict, using social and historical context, the struggles that will be presented? Use the blog: Justuslearning.com > blog > + search “Streetcar”

3. TERMINOLOGY: onomatopoeia, repetition, alliteration, sibilance, simile, metaphor, personification, personal pronoun, feminism, rhetoric CONTEXT TERMS: misogyny, equality, gender equality, segregation, marginalisation, segregation, discrimination, alienation, polygamy CONTEXTUAL TERMS: colonisation, independence, missionaries, post-colonial, racism, Empire, Victorian, Igbo, traditional custom STRUGGLES: race, cultural domination, alienation, religion OUTSTANDING PROGRESS: I understand the social, political and literary context which influenced the writing of the novel and affects how it has been received by both a 1940s/50s and a modern audience and can link these issues to my wider reading EXCELLENT PROGRESS: I understand the social, political and literary context which influenced the writing of the novel and affects how it has been received by both a 1940s/50s and a modern audience. GOOD PROGRESS: I understand the social and political context which influenced the writing of the novel and affects how it is received by audiences.

4. TERMINOLOGY: onomatopoeia, repetition, alliteration, sibilance, simile, metaphor, personification, personal pronoun, feminism, rhetoric CONTEXT TERMS: misogyny, equality, gender equality, segregation, marginalisation, segregation, discrimination, alienation, polygamy CONTEXTUAL TERMS: colonisation, independence, missionaries, post-colonial, racism, Empire, Victorian, Igbo, traditional custom STRUGGLES: race, cultural domination, alienation, religion Late 1940s New Orleans Explode the setting…. What influences from society, politics, literature may be present? EXT: Which struggles do we imagine will be present?

5. TERMINOLOGY: onomatopoeia, repetition, alliteration, sibilance, simile, metaphor, personification, personal pronoun, feminism, rhetoric CONTEXT TERMS: misogyny, equality, gender equality, segregation, marginalisation, segregation, discrimination, alienation, polygamy CONTEXTUAL TERMS: colonisation, independence, missionaries, post-colonial, racism, Empire, Victorian, Igbo, traditional custom STRUGGLES: race, cultural domination, alienation, religion • There are numerous sources around the room: • Biography of Tennessee Williams • History of the “Deep South” • History of New Orleans • American Theatre Forms • Play/film reviews • Immigration in 20th Century to US • Presentation of 1950s women in US media

6. TERMINOLOGY: onomatopoeia, repetition, alliteration, sibilance, simile, metaphor, personification, personal pronoun, feminism, rhetoric CONTEXT TERMS: misogyny, equality, gender equality, segregation, marginalisation, segregation, discrimination, alienation, polygamy CONTEXTUAL TERMS: colonisation, independence, missionaries, post-colonial, racism, Empire, Victorian, Igbo, traditional custom STRUGGLES: race, cultural domination, alienation, religion • You will have short periods of time to carousel around the information sources: • Try to distill to “most important” 3 facts for each source • Focus on the influence it may have on presenting the struggle • EXT: can you link the information to your wider reading? OUTSTANDING PROGRESS: I understand the social, political and literary context which influenced the writing of the novel and affects how it has been received by both a 1940s/50s and a modern audience and can link these issues to my wider reading EXCELLENT PROGRESS: I understand the social, political and literary context which influenced the writing of the novel and affects how it has been received by both a 1940s/50s and a modern audience. GOOD PROGRESS: I understand the social and political context which influenced the writing of the novel and affects how it is received by audiences

7. TERMINOLOGY: onomatopoeia, repetition, alliteration, sibilance, simile, metaphor, personification, personal pronoun, feminism, rhetoric CONTEXT TERMS: misogyny, equality, gender equality, segregation, marginalisation, segregation, discrimination, alienation, polygamy CONTEXTUAL TERMS: colonisation, independence, missionaries, post-colonial, racism, Empire, Victorian, Igbo, traditional custom STRUGGLES: race, cultural domination, alienation, religion Now return to your original brainstorm predictions… Add to them with the knowledge you now have of the context. OUTSTANDING PROGRESS: I understand the social, political and literary context which influenced the writing of the novel and affects how it has been received by both a 1940s/50s and a modern audience and can link these issues to my wider reading EXCELLENT PROGRESS: I understand the social, political and literary context which influenced the writing of the novel and affects how it has been received by both a 1940s/50s and a modern audience. GOOD PROGRESS: I understand the social and political context which influenced the writing of the novel and affects how it is received by audiences

8. TERMINOLOGY: onomatopoeia, repetition, alliteration, sibilance, simile, metaphor, personification, personal pronoun, feminism, rhetoric CONTEXT TERMS: misogyny, equality, gender equality, segregation, marginalisation, segregation, discrimination, alienation, polygamy CONTEXTUAL TERMS: colonisation, independence, missionaries, post-colonial, racism, Empire, Victorian, Igbo, traditional custom STRUGGLES: race, cultural domination, alienation, religion Present the predictions to the class. Active listening: attempt to question, extrend or argue with what is presented EXT: Can you make further links to our wider reading? OUTSTANDING PROGRESS: I understand the social, political and literary context which influenced the writing of the novel and affects how it has been received by both a 1940s/50s and a modern audience and can link these issues to my wider reading EXCELLENT PROGRESS: I understand the social, political and literary context which influenced the writing of the novel and affects how it has been received by both a 1940s/50s and a modern audience. GOOD PROGRESS: I understand the social and political context which influenced the writing of the novel and affects how it is received by audiences