The Handmaid's Tale Workbook: A-Level Language and Literature (AQA Style)

A comprehensive revision booklet that is 68 pages long - design to be used alongside a SoL. These tasks are based around learning, researching and revising the content for the AQA Language and Literature ‘Imagined World’ section specifically for ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’.

This could be used alongside a SoL to extend and consolidate learning, or it could be set as part of independent revision in preparation for exams.

The breakdown of the booklet is as follows:

• An Independent Subject Audit of all of the key content

• Character Analysis: The Handmaid’s - Offred and Ofglen, The Marthas, The Eyes, The Aunts, The Commander, Serena Joy, Nick, Moira, June’s Mother, Luke, Professor Pieixoto…

• Atwood’s Intention: Speculative Fiction, Sexist Attitudes, Apathy and Conformism, Religious Fundamentalism, The Power of Language, The Power of Memories, The Oppression of Women, Forms of Rebellion, Women Turning on Women and Forms of Power

• Setting (Storyworld): Offred’s Bedroom, The Commander’s Library, The University, Cambridge Massachusetts, The Wall, The Jezebels, Serena’s Garden and The Red Center

• Religious and Philosophical Contexts: Feminism, Religious Perspectives, Freedom to and Freedom From, Post-modernism,

• The Power of Language (Close-text Analysis Tasks: Ten key quotations from across the text - focusing on AO1, AO2 and AO2 approaches.

• Themes and Ideas: The Female Body and Bodily Autonomy, Hypocrisy in Power, The Power of Language: Neologisms, The Power of Language: Religion, The Power of Language: Musings, Myth and Fairytale, The Power of Storytelling and Memory, Individualism and Identity…

• Practice Questions: Five AQA style questions