1. Starters on a plate! 100 starters.
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3. Identify three key themes of the play
Identify three key themes of the play? In groups come up with at least three moments in the play that explore these themes

4. Make notes in your exercise book on the content of the video!
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Make notes in your exercise book on the content of the video!

5. List as many adjectives as you can to describe the good side of Stanley and the bad side of him

6. Write down 5 quotes that you think are the most important ones for Stanley. Write a PEEL paragraph about one of them

7. Write down 5 quotes that you think are the most important ones for Stella. Write a PEEL paragraph about one of them

8. How Williams presents the theme of violence in the play as a whole?
Create a mind map of how you would address this question…

9. Write down 5 quotes that you think are the most important ones for Blanche. Write a PEEL paragraph about one of them

10. Write down 5 quotes that you think are the most important ones for Mitch. Write a PEEL paragraph about one of them

11. [Blanche] looks at a slip of paper, then at the building, then again at the slip and again at the building. Her expression is one of shocked disbelief. Her appearance is incongruous to the setting. She is daintily dressed…Her delicate beauty must avoid a strong light. There is something about her uncertain manner, as well as her white clothes, that suggests a moth. STAGE DIRECTIONS
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12. Summarise the purpose of scene 10 in 50 words

13. In 50 words summarise what the purpose of scene 1 is.

14. In 50 words summarise the what the purpose of scene 2 is.

15. In 50 words summarise the purpose of scene 3.

16. Make notes in your exercise book on the content of the video!
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Make notes in your exercise book on the content of the video!

17. How Williams presents the theme of fantasy and reality in the play as a whole?
Create a mind map of how you would address this question…

18. What questions/misunderstandings do you have based on our work so far on A Streetcar Named Desire? Put them on a post it note and move around the room to find someone who can answer them for you!

19. In 50 words summarise the purpose of scene 4.

20. In 50 words summarise the purpose of scene 5

21. Summarise in 50 words the purpose of scene 6 6

22. Summarise in 50 words what the purpose of scene 7 is

23. In 50 words summarise the purpose of scene 8

24. Summarise in 50 words the purpose of scene 9

25. BLANCHE: I was so exhausted by all I’d been through my – nerves broke
BLANCHE: I was so exhausted by all I’d been through my – nerves broke. [nervously tapping cigarette,] I was on the verge of - lunacy almost! So Mr Graves…suggested I take leave of absence.”

26. Stanley throws the screen door of the kitchen open and comes in
Stanley throws the screen door of the kitchen open and comes in. He is of medium height, about five feet eight or nine, and strongly compactly built. Animal joy in his being is implicit in all his movements and attitudes. Since earliest manhood the centre of his life has been pleasure with women…with the power and pride of a richly feathered male bird among hens.”

27. He sizes women up at a glance with sexual classifications, crude images flashing into his mind and determining the way he smiles at them.

28. “You’ll get along fine together, if you’ll just try not to – well – compare him with men that we went out with at home.”

29. Explore the presentation of desire in A Streetcar Named Desire
Explore the presentation of desire in A Streetcar Named Desire. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors.

30. “There’s something downright bestial about him!”
“He acts like an animal, has an animal’s habits!...There’s even something – sub-human – something not quite to the stage of humanity yet! Yes, something ape-like about him, like one of those pictures I’ve seen in anthropological studies.”
“Stanley Kowalski, survivor of the stone age!”
“Don’t – don’t hang back with the brutes!”

31. There are thousands of papers, stretching back over hundreds of years, affecting Belle Reve as, piece by piece, our improvident grandfathers and father and uncles and brothers exchanged the land for their epic fornications—to put it plainly! The four-letter word deprived us of our plantation, till finally all that was left—and Stella can verify that!—was the house itself and about twenty acres of ground, including a graveyard, to which now all but Stella and I have retreated.

32. Explore Williams’s presentation of illusion and reality in A Streetcar Named Desire. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors.

33. I am not a Polack. People from Poland are Poles, not Polacks
I am not a Polack. People from Poland are Poles, not Polacks. But what I am is a one hundred percent American, born and raised in the greatest country on earth and proud as hell of it, so don’t ever call me a Polack.

34. It's really a pretty frightful situation
It's really a pretty frightful situation. You see, there's no privacy here. There's just these portieres between the two rooms at night. He stalks through the rooms in his underwear at night. And I have to ask him to close the bathroom door. That sort of commonness isn't necessary. You probably wonder why I don't move out. Well, I'll tell you frankly. A teacher's salary is barely sufficient for her living expenses. I didn't save a penny last year and so I had to come here for the summer. That's why I have to put up with my sister's husband. And he has to put up with me, apparently so much against his wishes.... Surely he must have told you how much he hates me!

35. In your exercise books make notes on the content of the video!
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In your exercise books make notes on the content of the video!

36. Summarise the purpose of scene 10

37. How Williams presents the theme of women in the play as a whole?
Create a mind map of how you would address this question…

38. Plot on a continuum how the play develops
Plot on a continuum how the play develops. In a different colour pen, add the reasons why

39. Write a newspaper article about what happens in the play

40. Read the scene below and write one PEEL paragraph about the presentation of Stanley and Stella
[Blanche is singing in the bathroom a saccharine popular ballad which is used contrapuntally with Stanley's speech.]
STELLA [to Stanley]:
Lower your voice!
STANLEY:
Some canary-bird, huh!
STELLA:
Now please tell me quietly what you think you've found out about my sister.
Lie Number One: All this squeamishness she puts on! You should just know the line she's been feeding to Mitch--He thought she had never been more than kissed by a fellow! But Sister Blanche is no lily! Ha-ha! Some lily she is!

41. Write down as many adjectives as possible about Mitch – try and think of some that others won’t pick

42. Write down as many adjectives as possible about Blanche – try and think of some that others won’t pick

43. Write down as many adjectives as possible about Stella – try and think of some that others won’t pick

44. Make notes in your exercise books as you watch the video!
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Make notes in your exercise books as you watch the video!

45. How Williams presents the theme of Sex in the play as a whole?
Create a mind map of how you would address this question…

46. Write down as many adjectives as possible about Mitch – try and think of some that others won’t pick

47. Write down as many adjectives as possible about the setting – try and think of some that others won’t pick

48. Write down as many adjectives as possible about the relationship between Stella and Stanley – try and think of some that others won’t pick

49. Tennessee
Williams

50. Symbols and motifs
Write the script for a vlogger on youtube about the following symbol or motif:

51. Symbols and motifs

53. How Williams presents the theme of Death in the play as a whole?
Create a mind map of how you would address this question…

56. Dramatic contrast. Consider any contrasting mood, character, action …
Look at the extract(Act 1 scene 1 p117 to Act 1 scene 1 P119) From the stage directions marking Blanche’s stage entrance carrying a ‘valise’ to the end of Blanche’s conversation with Eunice (marked by Eunice’s exit from the stage) leaving Blanche sitting tense and alone. Write a PEEL paragraph about how Blanche is presented. You must use some of the following terms:
Asides
Dramatic contrast. Consider any contrasting mood, character, action …
Soliloquy
Sound effects
Dramatic irony
Figurative language, symbols, motifs
Pauses/silences
Stage directions (consider the language used as well as what/how they instruct the actor)
Verbs (tense, active/passive, concrete/abstract, mood)
Tone and register (poetic, conversational, informal, formal, etc)
Stage design
Lexical choices (groups of words, contrasts, kinds)
Syntax: sentence types, structure and length
Balance of plot narration, reflection and description
Use of repetition, parallels, oppositions, contrasts
Structural development
Use of generic conventions: e.g. melodrama, naturalism, farce, surrealism, naturalism

57. In 140 characters tweet me about what you think Williams’ purpose of the play was…

58. A Streetcar Named Desire

59. How Williams presents the theme of men in the play as a whole?
Create a mind map of how you would address this question…

60. Press the picture to hear the song

61. In an extract of your choice write a PEEL paragraph on how Stanley is presented

62. Use a series of emoticons track Blanche’s feelings as the play progresses

63. Explore Williams’s presentation of madness in A Streetcar Named Desire
Explore Williams’s presentation of madness in A Streetcar Named Desire. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors.

64. Explode the quote!

65. How does Williams present the clash of old and new America in this extract?

66. In an extract of your choice write a PEEL paragraph on how Mitch is presented

67. How Williams presents the character of Stanley in the play as a whole?
Create a mind map of how you would address this question…

69. [She sets the phone down and crosses warily into the kitchen
[She sets the phone down and crosses warily into the kitchen. The night is filled with inhuman voices like cries in a jungle. The shadows and lurid reflections move sinously as flames along the wall spaces.
Through the back wall of the rooms, which have become transparent, can be seen the sidewalk. A prostitute has rolled a drunkard. He pursues her along the walk, overtakes her and there is a struggle. A policeman's whistle breaks it up. The figures disappear.
Some moments later the Negro Woman appears around the corner with a sequined bag which the prostitute had dropped on the walk. She is rooting excitedly through it.
Blanche presses her knuckles to her lips and returns slowly to the phone. She speaks in a hoarse whisper.]
BLANCHE: Operator! Operator! Never mind long-distance. Get Western Union. There isn't time to be--Western--Western Union!
[She waits anxiously.]
Western Union? Yes! I--want to--Take down this message! "In desperate, desperate circumstances! Help me! Caught in a trap. Caught in--" Oh!
[The bathroom door is thrown open and Stanley comes out in the brilliant silk pyjamas. He grins at her as he knots the tasselled sash about his waist. She gasps and backs away from the phone. He stares at her for a count of ten. Then a clicking becomes audible from the telephone, steady and rasping.]
Comment on the effect of the devices used to present Blanche and Stanley in this extract.

70. Scene 8 page 198, line beginning “The Varsouviana music steals… to end of scene
How does Williams use dramatic devices to create tension in this extract?
Use a highlighter to identify the quotes that most create tension.
Analyse, at word level, WHY these quotes create tension and what effect the words have on the reader.
Can you identify any dramatic devices?
What do these quotes tell us about the context?

71. In an extract of your choice, write a PEEL paragraph on how Blanche is presented?

72. Explode the quote!

73. Quick Quiz
At the beginning of the play, Blanche is told to "take a street-car named Desire, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at --" ... where?
What subject did Blanche teach at her school? 
Where does Stanley find Eunice after the fight with Steve?
What type of music was Blanche listening to when her husband committed suicide?
Where is Shep Huntleigh from?
Which family member died that caused Blanche to leave Belle Reve?
What does Blanche pretend to find when Mitch comes by while Stella is in labour?
What does Stella profess she likes to do for her sister?
Who lives upstairs from Stanley and Stella?
What sound does Blanche always hear before the Polka tune stops?

76. How Williams presents the character of Stella in the play as a whole?
Create a mind map of how you would address this question…

77. Be the teacher – fill in your comments in the boxes provided
Set this candidate a WWW and an EBI

78. In an extract of your choice write a PEEL paragraph on how Stella is presented

81. Explore Williams’s use of symbolism to highlight a changing America
Explore Williams’s use of symbolism to highlight a changing America. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors.

83. How Williams presents the character of Mitch in the play as a whole?
Create a mind map of how you would address this question…

84. In an extract of your choice, write a PEEL paragraph about how Violence is presented.

85. Use the QR Code to make notes on the context of the play – this will take a while so needs to be a Home Learning task!

86. You have 60 seconds for each image to write as much as you can about it…you must consider the significance of it to the play as a whole

87. In an extract of your choice, write a paragraph on how the setting is presented.

88. In an extract of your choice, write a PEEL paragraph on how Fantasy vs reality is presented

89. You have two minutes to write down all that you can about each of these contexts

90. Produce five key points which summarise what Williams tried to show about American society

91. Create a mind-map showing what we know about women in the play

92. Create a recipe for someone answering a question on A Streetcar Named Desire

93. In an extract of your choice, write a PEEL paragraph about how the theme of death is presented.

94. Use a series of emoticons track Stanley’s feelings as the novel progresses

95. Write down the questions you still have about the play, and which you do not feel have been answered yet

96. Come up with a series of questions designed to test someone’s knowledge of A Streetcar Named Desire. When ready, work in pairs and test each other.

98. In pairs, one person is ‘for’ and one person is ‘against’
In pairs, one person is ‘for’ and one person is ‘against’. The motion is: Williams aligns himself with Stanley's reality and brutal honesty, rather than with Blanche's illusion and pretence? The people ‘for’ will go first, for a minute. The people ‘against’ will get a minute after that. Finally, there will be a minute of free-for-all, where both sides can speak.

99. Take it in turns to draw something connected to the play
Take it in turns to draw something connected to the play. The other person must try to guess what it is. The drawer is not allowed to talk, or to write any words.

100. In groups, take it in turns to try to talk for one minute about a theme without stopping or repeating yourself.

101. In groups, write a short summary of everything we have learnt about A Streetcar Named Desire. Produce a series of appropriate actions/freeze frames to go with your summary. One person will read the summary out to the class whilst the rest of your group do the actions/freeze frames.

102. Write your own exam question for A Streetcar Named Desire