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- Scholarly objectives
- Literary terms and definitions
- Questions for essays and discussion
- Multiple-choice and essay test
- Chapter-by-chapter reproducible study guide
- Vocabulary found throughout the book
With this downloadable Teaching Unit for The Handmaid's Tale, students will examine a variety of themes, including reproductive rights, the dangers of complacency, and the terrifying power of language. Told from the perspective of one handmaid used solely to reproduce, Atwood's 1985 novel will spark classroom discussions and student responses.
The lesson plans in this unit will help your students to:
- Evaluate the influence of late twentieth-century feminism on the novel
- Explain farcical and ironic elements of Atwood's story as they emerge
- Define and discuss the concepts of dystopian literature and speculative fiction
- Analyze the social stratification of women in the Gilead regime
- And much more!
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