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The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

Introduction and discussion points (handout)
BBC audiobook of The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood Explains the Dystopia of The Handmaid's Tale
Why The Handmaid's Tale is so relevant today - Jennifer Keishin
​Haunted by The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
​​Facing an essay on The Handmaid's Tale, student reaches out to the ultimate source: Margaret Atwood
Group task: Design a web-based 'Study Guide'
No Balm in Gilead for Margaret Atwood - Mervyn Rothstein
7 iconic scenes from The Handmaid’s Tale graphic novel
Creative 'Fakebook' task
A very useful article from The Economist, 'The sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale explores the workings of repression - Return to Gilead' (provided by Ondrej - many thanks!)
In Our Time - Discussion of Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism
Gloria Steinem's 'a bunny's tale' – 50 years later
What is Stockholm Syndrome?

​Margaret Atwood: ‘For a long time we were moving away from Gilead. Then we started going back towards it’ - Lisa Allardice
A mildly diverting quiz
ebook of The Testaments
BBC audiobook of The Testaments
When Mary Beard Met Margaret Atwood
Summary of some critical approaches
John Green's Crash Course Literature
An article from The Atlantic
A podcast interview with Atwood (Thanks, Ondrej!)

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    • Literary Elements and Techniques
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  • s3
    • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
    • Macbeth
    • Lord of the Flies
    • A Tale of Two Cities
    • Animal Farm
    • Oliver Twist
    • The Importance of Being Earnest
    • Poetry 2019
    • Punctuation
  • s4
    • Dr Jeykll & Mr Hyde
    • Yosser's Story
    • The Merchant of Venice
    • Writing a discursive essay
    • Of Mice and Men
    • The Catcher in the Rye
    • Julius Caesar
    • How to read a film
    • Pygmalion
    • Journey's End
    • Under the Greenwood Tree
  • Short Stories
  • s5
    • Romeo and Juliet
    • To Kill A Mockingbird
    • War Poetry
    • The Help
    • Death of a Salesman
    • Studying English in S6
    • Writing a speech
    • Past papers for practice
  • S6/7 L1 2021-23
    • Ambition
    • Richard III
    • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    • Poetry
    • Great Expectations
    • Jeanette Winterson
    • Julius Caesar
  • s6/s7 Advanced
    • Resources for studied texts
    • Practical Criticism
    • Practice essays
    • Past papers
    • Essay writing
    • Film Society
  • S7
    • The Handmaid's Tale
    • Macbeth
    • Theme based activities
    • A Room of One's Own
    • Grace Nichols
    • Practical Criticism
    • Persepolis
    • Past Papers
  • L2 s7 Advanced
    • The Gothic
    • Amongst Women
  • Exemplary work by students from EEIII
  • Links
  • Book Reviews
  • S5 history
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  • Syllabus/Assessment Criteria