Waiting for Lefty Lesson Plan

If all of the elements of this lesson plan are employed, students will develop the following powers, skills, and understanding:

1. 1

   The student will explore how the Great Depression affected the tone and content of American art.

2. 2

   Students will examine Odets's leftist politics and discuss how those politics manifest themselves in the play's text.

3. 3

   Students will discuss how the play's social and economic politics remain relevant today.

4. 4

   Students will explore the era of McCarthyism and how Odets fits into the country's political climate at the time.