Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Lesson Plan

Scene Work (Day One)

Kind of Activity:

Group Work

Objective:

Students will be able to engage with Williams's text in its intended form

Structure:

Initiate a discussion with the students about the difference between reading a play and reading a novel. A play was not intended primarily to be read like a book is; it was intended to be read by actors and then performed. Refer back to the first day's activity about dialogue and story, and note that although one could consider a play to be told with "only dialogue," it is in fact also told by actors, designers, and directors in collaboration with that dialogue.

Move students into groups.

Each group should select a segment from...