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Tennessee Williams

A Streetcar Named Desire

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1947

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This resource can be used as supplemental teacher material or as a primary basis for an entire unit on a literary work.

  • Draw students in with an enriched understanding of context before reading, provide warm-up prompts and in-class analysis opportunities involving free-writing or discussion, and assess their knowledge with thoughtful quizzes.
  • Ensure deeper understanding and true enjoyment of the literature with activities that engage all learning types.
  • Stretch students’ critical thinking and writing skills with strategic and probing essay topics that offer an entry point for every reading level.

Note to Teachers: To support lesson-planning, connections to the work’s primary themes are noted throughout this resource (imagination versus reality, forms of power, the meaning of desire). 

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