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The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood |
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The guide offers, in a convenient, user-friendly format, notes and
task-sheets developed over more than 20 years of teaching the novel to senior
students. |
Contents
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Teaching Guide |
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Study Guide |
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Introduction |
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Studying the Novel |
2 |
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Suggested Teaching Plan |
4 |
Introducing Margaret Atwood |
3 |
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Underlying Premises |
5 |
Utopian and Dystopian Literature |
5 |
Plot Overview
Answer Guide
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6 |
Plot Overview |
6 |
Close Reading
Answer Guide
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8 |
Close Reading
Task-sheets
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7 |
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Plot Summary and Structure |
24 |
Style and Structure Checklist |
15 |
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Timelines |
27 |
Plot summary and Analysis |
17 |
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Plot Analysis Answer Guide |
29 |
Narrative Structure and Style |
18 |
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'Historical Notes' Analysis |
33 |
Setting |
19 |
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Setting Task-sheet Answer Guide |
34 |
Characterisation |
20 |
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Setting Notes |
40 |
Allusions Task-sheet |
22 |
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Character Parallels and Contrasts |
42 |
Style and Language Techniques |
23 |
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Character Notes |
43 |
Themes |
25 |
Allusions
Task-sheet Answer Guide
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50 |
Discussion Questions |
26 |
Other
Allusions
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52 |
Planning and Writing Essays |
27 |
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Style and Language Techniques Answers |
56 |
Essay Topics |
31 |
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Symbols and Motifs |
62 |
Write-on Worksheets |
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Imagery Worksheets Answer Guide |
65 |
Study Record |
33 |
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Analysis of Style Answer Guide |
69 |
Imagery |
34 |
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Themes |
71 |
Analysis of Style |
38 |
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Planning Essay Answers |
74 |
Plot Summary and Structure |
39 |
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Quiz |
80 |
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The Movie; Bibliography |
82 |
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Unit outline |
83 |
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Extras:
resource material; student essays; material on the recent TV
adaptation |
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