Curriculum / ELA / 10th Grade / Unit 10: Sanity & Madness in A Streetcar Named Desire & Ma Rainey's Black Bottom / Lesson 23
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10th Grade
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Play: A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Book: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom‎ by August Wilson
Article: “First Night at the Theatre” by Brooks Atkinson (Originally published December 4, 1947)
Article: “Lower Depths, Southern Style” by Wolcott Gibbs (December 13, 1947 Issue)
Article: “‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ Review: All the Blues That’s Fit to Sing” by A.O. Scott
Movie: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (Directed by George C. Wolfe)
Movie: A Streetcar Named Desire (Directed by Elia Kazan)
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LO 2.2A — Assert a precise central claim.
LO 2.2B — Develop a line of sound reasoning and choose an organizing structure to convey that reasoning to the reader.
LO 2.2C — Support a claim by selecting and incorporating evidence that is relevant, sufficient, and convincing.
LO 2.2E — Use carefully selected language, syntax, and stylistic and persuasive elements to strengthen an argument.
LO 2.4A — Establish a narrative point of view.
LO 2.4B — Use a variety of techniques to advance plot, theme, and the evolution of character(s).
LO 2.4C — Use carefully selected language to help the reader imagine or share the experience conveyed in the narrative.
LO 3.3A — Compose or revise language to ensure sentences are grammatically correct and that their internal structures provide clarity.
RL.9-10.5 — Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
W.9-10.3 — Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.
W.9-10.4 — Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
Analyze how Catron develops her argument about love and madness using logical reasoning and supporting evidence.
Standards
LO 1.3BRL.9-10.4
Analyze how Emily Dickinson uses diction and structure to convey ideas about madness.
LO 1.3BRL.9-10.4RL.9-10.5
Explain the madwoman in the attic archetype/literary trope.
Apply the madwoman archetype to a close reading and analysis of an excerpt of Jane Eyre.
LO 1.2ARI.9-10.1
Analyze how the speaker in K.P Page’s poem portrays the landlady as a complex character.
LO 1.3ARI.9-10.3
Formulate and share unique arguments about madness and sanity.
Support arguments with strong and thorough textual evidence in a Socratic seminar.
LO 1.4BLO 5.1ALO 5.1BSL.9-10.1
Craft an insight piece about your selected research topic, placing the ideas found in various sources and their authors in conversation with one another.
LO 1.4BLO 4.1BW.9-10.9
Analyze how Williams establishes setting and characterization in the opening of A Streetcar Named Desire.
LO 1.3ARL.9-10.3
Analyze how diction and syntax create character in Blanche’s monologue in Scene 1.
Analyze the complex relationship between Blanche and Stanley and how it develops over the course of the scene.
LO 1.3BRL.9-10.3
Analyze how Williams uses tension in the poker scene to further develop his characters and create social commentary.
LO 1.3BRL.9-10.2
Compare and contrast Stella and Blanche’s perceptions of reality in relation to the violence of the poker night.
Analyze how Blanche’s relationship with men functions in the text and what it reveals about her character and the overall meaning of the work.
LO 1.3BRL.9-10.2RL.9-10.3
Analyze how the motifs of light and drinking function in Scene 8 and what they reveal about Blanche’s character and tragic flaw.
Analyze and interpret the ambiguity in Scene 10.
Analyze Williams’ key moments in the final scene including how Williams used them to create meaning in the text.
Formulate and share unique arguments about A Streetcar Named Desire.
Support arguments with strong and thorough textual evidence in a summative Socratic seminar.
LO 1.3ALO 1.3BLO 2.3ALO 2.3BLO 2.3CLO 2.3DLO 5.1ALO 5.1BRL.9-10.1RL.9-10.2RL.9-10.3RL.9-10.4SL.9-10.1
Analyze how Williams OR Wilson uses literary techniques to reveal the impact that desire has on each character’s development and the overall meaning of the work.
LO 1.3ALO 1.3BLO 2.3ALO 2.3BLO 2.3CLO 2.3DRL.9-10.1RL.9-10.2RL.9-10.3RL.9-10.4W.9-10.2W.9-10.9
Analyze how Elia Kazan’s cinematic and directorial choices in the 1951 film version of A Streetcar Named Desire contribute to meaning.
Evaluate how Elia Kazan interprets Teneesee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire in his 1951 film of the same title.
Analyze how Wilson establishes characterization and conflict in the opening of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.
Analyze Levee’s monologue including the emotional and psychological impact his past has on him and how it informs his interactions with other characters.
Analyze how Wolfe’s cinematic and directorial choices in the 2020 film version of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom contribute to meaning; evaluate how Wolfe interprets August Wilson’s’ Ma Rainey’s Block Bottom in her 2020 film of the same title.
Examine key moments in the final scene of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom including how Wilson used them to create meaning in the text.
Formulate and share unique arguments about Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.
4 days
LO 2.2ALO 2.2BLO 2.2CLO 2.2ELO 2.4ALO 2.4BLO 2.4CLO 3.3ARL.9-10.5W.9-10.3W.9-10.4
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