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Before-reading Activities

Considering Genre

• Margaret Atwood: the road to Ustopia
• Margaret Atwood on How She Came to Write The Handmaid's Tale
• The Rise of Dystopian Fiction

During-reading Activities

I: Night

• Margaret Atwood: the road to Ustopia

Whole-text Activities

Context

• Testaments Real-life Inspiration

Themes

• Margaret Atwood: 'I am not a prophet. Science fiction is really about now'

1980s vs Modern Day

• Houghton Mifflin, 1985
• McCarthy, 1986
• Newman, 2010
• Wonderfully Bookish, 2019