Streetcar: A-level English Language and Literature

This unit contains everything you need to teach Streetcar at KS5 for AQA A-level English Language and Literature. It includes over 20 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, contextual information, exemplar material, quizzes, extracts and critical articles. Each lesson targets a scene in the play, a theme, a character or an exam extract. I have used it for the last 5 years to teach top students who have gone on to achieve A* grades and study English Literature at Oxford and Cambridge.

Page numbers refer to the Penguin Modern Classics edition. This scheme of work has been designed for the AQA A level course. It looks at areas like:

Lesson 1: Naturalist and Expressionist theatre
Lesson 2: Context research on the deep south, the civil war, post WW2 immigration, 1940s New Orleans, The Southern Gothic and Tennessee Williams’ family
Lesson 3: Context presentations
Lesson 4: Impressions of Blanche
Lesson 5: Past Paper on “bitterness”
Lesson 6: The significance of Belle Reve
Lesson 7: Williams’ use of staging
Lesson 8a: The Poker Game and Sonnet 43
Lesson 8b: Past Paper on “loneliness”
Lesson 9: Blanche and The Southern Belle
Lesson 10: The allure of aggressive men
Lesson 11: Comparing Blanche and Stella
Lesson 12: The Southern Gent and Shep Huntleigh
Lesson 13a: Violence in Streetcar
Lesson 13b: Past Paper on “anxieties”
Lesson 14: Essay writing
Lesson 15a: Fantasy and self-deception
Lesson 15b: Past Paper on “tension”
Lesson 16: Elia Kazan’s influence
Lesson 17: Is Stan a victim or a villain?
Lesson 18: The relationship between Blanche and Mitch
Lesson 19a: Essay marking
Lesson 19b: Past Paper on “anger”
Lesson 20: Sherman’s march through Georgia