The Handmaid's Tale Intro to Dystopia

The Handmaid's Tale: FOUR OPENING LESSONS

These are the first four lessons in a unit of work on Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale'. DETAILED LESSON PLANS, SLIDES AND RESOURCES. Students will be inspired to approach the texts as literary critics, equipped with the knowledge of genre, contextual influences, structural devices and key motifs of the text. Lesson 1 - Introducing Dystopia Lesson 2 - Context Research Lesson Lesson 3 - Focus on the Title, Epigraphs and Chapter Headings as Structural Devices Lesson 4 - Reading and Analysing Section I Night The slides are designed to be engaging but not distracting. Each lesson is fully resourced and has an accompanying detailed lesson plan. The activities are varied and include group work, individual paragraph planning, class discussion and post-it reflections. The teacher lesson plans include key word banks, suggestions of homework/follow up tasks, a bibliography for wider reading and step-by-step activities. I have taught these lessons successfully with A Level and IB Diploma students across a range of abilities. They are designed to be fully adaptable with a high level of challenge.