Tennessee Williams Lesson Plans

1. Plan2
...escribe and compare responses to their own work and works by others. Explain and justify the meanings constructed from theirs and others' (dramatic performances) - audition monologues and duo scenes. Period - 45 minutes Materials Gum Selected monologue and duo scene handouts: The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams This is a Test by Stephen Gregg The Adding Machine by Elmer L. Rice Lion in Winter by James Goldman Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard I cannot print the scenes here, so use your good judgement and choose two person scenes with some conflict, and keep it short. Activity 1 Monologue-...

2. Idaho Public Television NTTI Lesson Plan: A Streetcar Named Desire
Utilization A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE Strategies Summer Smith University of Idaho Student Lesson Plans Meet the Teachers GRADE: 10 to 12 NTTI WNET LEARN SUBJECT MATTER: English and Language Arts IdahoPTV OVERVIEW Studying the drama genre is often a fun way for students to engage in literature. Tennessee Williams wrote several worthwhile plays during his lifetime, and secondary English teachers continue to teach these works in their classrooms today. In reading his play A Streetcar Named Desire, students gain an idea of southern life in post WWII and an understanding of familial relationships as presented in...

3. Lesson 8 - Deerfield's Changing Economy
...al Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, 1780-1860. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1990. Steingberg, Theodore. "The Transformation of Water." Nature Incorporated: Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 1994. Garrison, J. Ritchie. Landscape and Material Life in Franklin County, MA 1770-1860. Knoxville: UP of Tennessee, 1991. Anderson, Fred. The People's Army: Massachusetts Soldiers and Society in the Seven Years' War. University of North Carolina Press, 1996. Clark, Christopher. The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, 1780- 1860. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1990. top of page Materials Primary and Secondary Sources:...

4. The Pied Piper vs
The Pied Piper vs. The City of Hamelin Memphis City Schools Memphis, Tennessee 89043 UNIT: Criminal Law GOAL: To show how consumer laws developed to help protect the consumer against hazardous products, fraud, overcharging, and inferior merchandise. To show how criminal law has developed and changed to maintain an organized society CONCEPT: Oral contracts should be honored. There are c...

5. Story Characters Write to "Dear Abby"
...s provided) Lesson Plan In this lesson, students take on the roles of 1) a character in their reading and 2) an advice columnist. This lesson can be used with any story/book in which a character faces a problem. Conflict is a common literary device used by authors from Dr. Seuss and J.K. Rowling to Tennessee Williams and William Shakespeare to further the plot of their stories. Invite students to talk about their favorite literature or stories they have read in class. What conflicts or problems did the characters in those stories face? Brainstorm with students a list of the books, characters, and their problems....

6. Mountain Humor: Tell Me a Folktale
...a L. Hanlon and R. Rex Stephenson + Study Guides: Guidelines for Teaching with Folk Tales, Fairy Tales, Fables, Ballads, and Other Short Works of Folklore by Tina L. Hanlon + Links: Folklore The following books are excellent resources for teachers: Chase, Richard. Grandfather Tales. Illus. Berkeley Williams, Jr. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1948. Chase, Richard. The Jack Tales. Illus. Berkeley Williams, Jr. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1943. Higgs, Robert J., Ambrose Manning, and Jim Wayne Miller, eds. Appalachia Inside Out: Conflict and Change. 2 vols. Knoxville: Tennessee UP, 1995. The following article provides...

7. Icebreakers
...f their answers. One of my favorite things to see is a student who was in my class the previous year. They always think they'll make a 100. They never do! With younger students, when they're right they think they can predict the future! Marty Faulkner, high school teacher; Grand Prairie, Texas Tina Williams, Livingston Park Elementary School; North Brunswick, New Jersey Peek Into Summer. Divide a bulletin board into "window panes," using white strips of paper. Create one window pane for each child in your class. Assign two children to bring in some object each day, such as a shell, that represents what they had...

8. In the Wake of Columbus
...ood Press, Westport, 1972. Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900. Alfred W. Crosby, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1986. Guns, Germs, and Steel. Jared Diamond, W. W. Norton and Company, New York, 1997.Their Number Became Thinned. Henry F. Dobyns, University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, 1983. Plagues and Peoples. William H. McNeill, Anchor Press/Doubleday, Garden City, 1976. American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History Since 1492 . Russell Thornton, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1987 Numerous works of Sherburne F. Cook and Woodrow Borah. Williams, R...

9. Post-Modernism
...inspiration from Whitman, Buddha, eastern religion, drugs § spontaneity, opposition to constructing forms ? poetic or political § rhetorical shock § language of drug subculture, jazz music § references to mythical religions § sarcastic comic touches III. Post-Modernist Authors a. Allen Ginsberg b. Tennessee Williams c. Edward Albee d. Amy Tan e. William Burroughs f. Frank O? Hara g. Sylvia Plath h. Eudora Welty i. Ralph Ellison j. James Baldwin k. JD Salinger IV. Activity: Guided Reading a. America by Allen Ginsberg (selected excerpt) i. read as a class and connect to themes of post-modernism (may want to look...

10. Let the Good Times Roll
...Gras cooking party. 3. Read the official White House report entitled The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Learned (http:// www.whitehouse.gov/reports/katrina-lessons-learned/index.html) and write a one- to two-page reaction. 4. Read a story that takes place in New Orleans, such as the Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire or the Kate Chopin novel, The Awakening. Write a literary analysis of the work, focusing on the setting, language, and local flavor. Interdisciplinary Connections: American History- Choose an American city famous for jazz, such as New Orleans, Chicago, or New York. Crea...