Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Scheme of Work Cambridge AS Level

A re-upload of my scheme of work for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Based on mixed reviews, especially as the quality of resources for the text available has improved, it has been uploaded now for free.

This should represent a good jumping off point for planning your own lessons.

It looks at the entire text, moving from context, to theory, to close analysis.

The context lessons look at:

Masculinity
Patriarchy
Race
Class
Southern identity

The opening of the play looks at:

Staging of the play (including Williams’s evocative descriptions)
The presentation of Brick and Maggie in the opening.
Depictions of wealth and class.
Essay writing guide lesson and essay planning lesson on the presentation of Maggie in the opening.
Lesson on the symbolism of the crutch, with a touch on Freudian analysis to prepare for A2 study.
Depictions of Brick’s alcoholism.
More lessons will be added as I develop and finalise the scheme whilst teaching it.

The lessons on the second half of the first act look at:

Page by page questions for three pages on Brick and Maggie’s relationship.
Extract based exam question designed in the style of Cambridge AS Level.
Research task on the Lavender Scare and Freudian analysis, and considerations of Brick and Skipper’s relationship.
Brief consideration of the opening of Act 2.

The next lessons include a series of slides designed to get students comfortable with considering literary theory, as well as later lessons developing their analysis, and an extract based question in the style of Cambridge exams.

It looks at:

Feminism
Misogyny
Lies, Lying and Mendacity
Symbolism
Homosexuality and Homophobia
Close analysis of sexuality
Tension
The presentation of Big Daddy in the whole text.
Reading of University level essay with discussion questions to guide reading.
Analysing Brick and Skipper’s relationship.

The final lessons are a little thin on the ground but contain a choice of two final exam style questions.