Teacher Guide

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Lesson Plan

Notes to the Teacher

These lessons and activities provide many different approaches to the text; select those that best suit the strengths and interests of your own class. The thought questions in this lesson plan provide material and ideas that students can use to write short original essays and to develop their powers of analysis.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof contains a small amount of onstage violence, denigration of both LGBTQ+ people (conscious on the part of the writer, and attributed to particular characters) and fat people (perhaps less conscious on the part of the writer), and some oblique racism. Work with your students to support their understanding of the script and its social context.

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