The Handmaid's Tale 2

What Gilead taught us

To what extent can we say that feminist works like the handmaid's tale have contributed to create a legacy to preserve women's rights and fight for equality?

Axe 1: Art & contestationAxe 3: Initiation & apprentissage

BEFORE READING

THE HANDMAID'S TALE

Margaret Atwood

Anticipation

45m+

190+

Dystopia

Reading journal

1.2m+

85m+

(Not) such a familiar place

chapter 1

Quotes

Graphic novel

Anticipation

Warmup: Let's play numbered heads

Names in the novel

Chapter 1

Reading comprehension

Your task

Translation workshop

Speaking

Beginning of chapter 2

Homework

Reproductive rights

In the united states and the handmaid's tale

warmup:Quotes

Anticipation

Walk to the posters around the room and discuss the quotes

Roe v wade

Parallels

History of reproductive rights in America

with the Handmaid's Tale

extract reading

2voices, 1 issue

Open your enveloppe. Match the passage to the issue

The history behind the tale

You're a journalist. You've been asked to write a paper on the the real historical facts which have inspired the handmaid's tale.

Start by doing some research

Interview from Margaret atwood: on specultative fiction

Moments in history that inspired The handmaid's tale

warm up

Special relationships

Chapters 25 & 26

03

02

01

ch 25 - 26

Writing

Reading quiz

You are Offred. Write your stream of consciousness following a visit to the Commander's office to play Scrabble about this special relationship uniting you with the Commander and Serena.

Test your understanding of your reading so far.

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Quiz

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Exit ticket

Work on your portfolio

Have a look at the cultural diary that you started creating during our first chapter

170+

Find 1 or 2 extracts from the Handmaid's Tale which you can link to the existing documents.

countries

Follow the methodology: "how to create your portfolio"optional: you can replace existing documents with documents from this chapter.

Escape room

ESCAPE FROM GILEAD TO CANADA

TASK 2

TASK 1

TASK 3

TASK 4

Multiple choice

JIG SAW QUOTE

WHO SAID IT?

WORD MAZE

FINAL TASK: ENCRYPTED MESSAGE

Final task

A public school in a 2023 US Southern State has decided to forbid the Handmaid’s tale in their school libraries.

Give a speech at a teacher-parent conference

Take part in the Debate at the school committee

Synthèse de dossier

Methodology

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Exit ticket

1/ Revise your diary entry from the commander’s perspective after today’s reading. Add some thoughts you think the commander would be having now.

2/ S1E5 28:03-32:14Speaking: How is the special relationship portrayed in the TV series. Do you find it similar or different to that of the passage? How?

Your task

Speaking

After reading the incipit, you tell a friend about this novel you've just started reading, explaining the context, what you think this is going to be about and your feelings regarding the first chapter.

Step 1: make a list of main events/elements you want to talk about.Step 2: Make a list of your feelings/opinions regarding this passage. Step 3: Choose the sentences/expression you could use to explain the passage and give your opinion/ share your feelings.Step 4: Organize your notes and record what you want to say to your friend. Be convincing.

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Parallels with what you've read

Using chapters 1 to 13, describe how Gilead limits women’s freedom and controls their bodies and reproduction.What forms do these restrictions take? Give examples from the story.

Today, you will work in small teams to escape from Gilead into Canada by completing tasks about the novel. You will choose one person to act as the liaison, or link, between your group and me who must come to me any time that you complete a task and crack a code. Remember to answer your booklets and fill them in as you learn codes to help you escape. Good luck and PRAISE BE. UNDER HIS EYE”

Escape Gilead

Welcome to the Handmaid's Tale Escape Room.

“Welcome to The Handmaid’s Tale Escape Room. You are all normal citizens trapped in a nation that seems to be crumbling from the inside out. You’ve lost your jobs, your bank accounts, your freedom, and every day you notice more and more of your friends have disappeared... but to where?

Two Voices, One Issue

Write a 20–25 line conversation between: • a modern American woman living in a state where abortion has been restricted, • a Handmaid from The Handmaid’s Tale. They meet and compare their situations, their rights, their fears, and their hopes. Your dialogue must include: • 3 legal / political vocabulary words (e.g., ban, lawsuit, criminalization, bodily autonomy, surveillance, rights, policy…) • 1 explicit comparison between their two contexts (e.g., “Your situation reminds me of…” / “In Gilead, it’s even worse because…”) • 2 modal verbs (might, must, should, could, can’t, would…) • 1 strong concluding line (a final sentence that leaves an impression or summarises their shared struggle)

You are Offred and after a visit to the Commander's office to play Scrabble at night you start thinking about this special relationship uniting you with the Commander and Serena. Write your stream of consciousness.

Step 1: Make a list of adjectives you can use to define your feelings towards the ommander, Serena and yourself. Step 2: Male a list of prompts you could use to start your sentences (think about the stream of consciousness style). Can you add similes? Step 3: Practise speaking out loud from your notes.

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Give a speech to a parent-teacher conference

A public school in a 2023 US Southern State has decided to forbid the Handmaid’s tale in their school libraries. You are a young and committed student of this school and you decide to give a speech during a parent-teacher meeting in order to convince them of the Handmaid’s tale’s legacy and importance in young people’s education (both the TV series and the novel).

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History of the abortion laws in the US

• Roe and her attorneys file a lawsuit against Henry Wade (local district attorney) • Unsafe illegal abortion led to numerous death • Abortion becomes legal nationally in the US • The Supreme Court overturns the trimester framework • Jane Roe can’t have access to an abortion by Texas laws • An act to codify abortion rights into federal law is approved by the House of Representatives but rejected by the Senate • Row and Casey are overruled by the Supreme Court = end of the federal abortion right • Gerri Santoro becomes a symbol of the abortion rights movement • Abortion laws are reformed nationwide • The Supreme Court declares Texas’ abortion laws unconstitutional

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WARM UP

Imagine that you ARE the commander writing in your diary about Offred. How do you think the commander feels about Offred? What might he think about the ceremony, or about her duty to remain silent and servile? What might he think about his wife, or his job as a higher up commander in Gilead? -Begin with "Dear Diary..." -One paragraph. (be prepared to volunteer for share out!)

Alternative Final Task

Debate at the school committee

• GROUP 1: You are the a member of the school board who wants The Handmaid's Tale to be be banned from the reading list (roles: headmistress, teacher, concerned parent, school's superintendent)

• GROUP 2: You want the school board to reinstate the Handmaid's tale on the reading list (roles: students, teacher, parent, school librarian)

A public school in a 2020 US Southern State has decided to forbid the Handmaid’s tale in their school libraries. You are a young and committed student of this school and you decide to give a speech during a parent-teacher meeting in order to convince them of the Handmaid’s tale’s legacy and importance in young people’s education (both the TV series and the novel).

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