If all of the elements of this lesson plan are employed, students will develop the following powers, skills, and understanding:
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Students will be able to analyze the complex familial dynamics portrayed in the play and Williams's strategies and models for character and relationship development.
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By staging a scene from the play, students will be able to evaluate the relationship between theatrical text and theatrical performance.
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Students will research the historical context of Williams's life and the writing of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
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Students will analyze the social systems that Cat on a Hot Tin Roof illuminates, including racial, gender, socioeconomic, and sexual...