The Handmaid's Tale: Comprehensive Guide for AS/A Level
- Edexcel AS & A Level
- OCR A Level
- AQA A A Level
- AQA B A Level
Ready-to-use, detailed study notes guide students through the troubled Republic of Gilead. Fantastically clear and comprehensive analysis allows students to wrestle with highly charged themes of rebellion, religion and reproduction. Plus thought-provoking questions and tasks to effectively stimulate class discussion of Atwood’s popular dystopian novel as well as hone students’ writing.
I was incredibly impressed by the level of detail in this resource
Engage your students!
Includes debate prompts; active learning tasks; further reading suggestions; key literary and linguistic terms throughout!
Tackles the key stages of text analysis:
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Walk-through
Thorough section-by-section commentary walks students through each section -
Drawing it all together
In-depth discussion of whole text focuses on: characterisation, relationships, genre, themes, attitudes and values, language, form, structure, context, literary approaches -
Indicative content
To support teaching by making sure all key areas are covered
Includes glossary of Gileadean terms to ensure full understanding of Atwood’s neologisms.
It has everything you need as a base to study this novel
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Really great resource. I enjoyed using it and felt it was a great investment... The context is very detailed and the tasks are excellent... The students like the use of themes, summaries and tasks... The tasks are good and varied, they require different skills which keep them focused... It has everything you need as a base to study this novel.
This is an excellent resource which provides a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the novel. The combinations of notes and student questions are particularly helpful in structuring the teaching of this text. I was incredibly impressed by the level of detail in this resource. It fits the specification incredibly well and clearly details what students will need to know about the novel. An excellent resource which would be a valuable asset to any institution.
I like the fact that it includes an activity or resource for most of the chapters. Some of the questions are thought-provoking for students and interesting. It encourages students to work independently and come up with their own ideas and opinions about the text.
I like this resource. It is very detailed and useful to both a teacher and a student. This would be good for revision or independent work outside of lessons.
Keywords
- A Level AQA A English Literature (7712)
- A Level AQA B English Literature (7717)
- A Level Comprehensive Guide
- A Level Edexcel English Literature (9ET0)
- A level English Literature
- A Level English Literature Comprehensive Guide
- A Level OCR English Literature (H472)
- Comparative and contextual study
- Component 2: Prose
- Dystopia
- Elements of political and social protest writing
- Margaret Atwood
- Modern Times: literature from 1945 to the present day
- Paper 2: Texts and Genres
- Paper 2: Texts in shared contexts
- Prose
- Science and Society