TENESSEE WILLIAMS’ A STREETCAR

NAMED DESIRELQ: Do I

understand the context of the play and can I predict, using social and

historical context, the struggles that will be presented?

TERMINOLOGY: onomatopoeia, repetition, alliteration, sibilance, simile, metaphor, personification, personal pronoun, feminism, rhetoric, proleptic

ironyCONTEXT TERMS: misogyny, equality, gender equality, segregation,

marginalisation, segregation, discrimination, alienation, polygamy

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?

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CONTEXTUAL TERMS: colonisation, independence, missionaries, post-colonial, racism, Empire, Victorian, Igbo, traditional customSTRUGGLES: race, cultural domination, alienation, religion

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 customSTRUGGLES: race, cultural domination, alienation, religion

TERMINOLOGY: onomatopoeia, repetition, alliteration, sibilance, simile, metaphor, personification, personal pronoun, feminism, rhetoric

CONTEXT TERMS: misogyny, equality, gender equality, segregation, marginalisation, segregation, discrimination, alienation, polygamy

GOOD PROGRESS: I understand the social and political context which influenced the writing of the novel and affects

how it is received by audiences.

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.

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

Late 1940s New OrleansExplode the setting….What influences from society, politics, literature may be present?

EXT: Which struggles do we imagine will be present?

CONTEXTUAL TERMS: colonisation, independence, missionaries, post-colonial, racism, Empire, Victorian, Igbo, traditional customSTRUGGLES: race, cultural domination, alienation, religion

TERMINOLOGY: onomatopoeia, repetition, alliteration, sibilance, simile, metaphor, personification, personal pronoun, feminism, rhetoric

CONTEXT TERMS: misogyny, equality, gender equality, segregation, marginalisation, segregation, discrimination, alienation, polygamy

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

CONTEXTUAL TERMS: colonisation, independence, missionaries, post-colonial, racism, Empire, Victorian, Igbo, traditional custom

STRUGGLES: race, cultural domination, alienation, religion

TERMINOLOGY: onomatopoeia, repetition, alliteration, sibilance, simile, metaphor, personification, personal pronoun, feminism, rhetoric

CONTEXT TERMS: misogyny, equality, gender equality, segregation, marginalisation, segregation, discrimination, alienation, polygamy

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?

CONTEXTUAL TERMS: colonisation, independence, missionaries, post-colonial, racism, Empire, Victorian, Igbo, traditional customSTRUGGLES: race, cultural domination, alienation, religion

TERMINOLOGY: onomatopoeia, repetition, alliteration, sibilance, simile, metaphor, personification, personal pronoun, feminism, rhetoric

CONTEXT TERMS: misogyny, equality, gender equality, segregation, marginalisation, segregation, discrimination, alienation, polygamy

GOOD PROGRESS: I understand the social and political context which

influenced the writing of the novel and affects how it is received by audiences

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.

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

Now return to your original brainstorm predictions…

Add to them with the knowledge you now have of the context.

CONTEXTUAL TERMS: colonisation, independence, missionaries, post-colonial, racism, Empire, Victorian, Igbo, traditional customSTRUGGLES: race, cultural domination, alienation, religion

TERMINOLOGY: onomatopoeia, repetition, alliteration, sibilance, simile, metaphor, personification, personal pronoun, feminism, rhetoric

CONTEXT TERMS: misogyny, equality, gender equality, segregation, marginalisation, segregation, discrimination, alienation, polygamy

GOOD PROGRESS: I understand the social and political context which

influenced the writing of the novel and affects how it is received by audiences

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.

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

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?

CONTEXTUAL TERMS: colonisation, independence, missionaries, post-colonial, racism, Empire, Victorian, Igbo, traditional customSTRUGGLES: race, cultural domination, alienation, religion

TERMINOLOGY: onomatopoeia, repetition, alliteration, sibilance, simile, metaphor, personification, personal pronoun, feminism, rhetoric

CONTEXT TERMS: misogyny, equality, gender equality, segregation, marginalisation, segregation, discrimination, alienation, polygamy

GOOD PROGRESS: I understand the social and political context which

influenced the writing of the novel and affects how it is received by audiences

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.

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