Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Lesson Plan

Family in the 1950s

Kind of Activity:

Group Discussion

Objective:

Students will be able to consider the historical tropes on which Albee's script plays

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.7; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.8; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.1

Structure:

Conversations about children have run through Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? thus far—the strange snipes between George and Martha about their son and Nick's revelation of Honey's "hysterical pregnancy." The play was written in 1962, and seems to portray the time period of the 1950s and early 1960s. Read one of the following brief educational descriptions of women's roles in mostly-white middle-class...