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Assigned Short Stories:
Selected short stories from The Short Stories of Hemingway:
"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"
Recommended Short Stories For Your Reading Pleasure:
10 Wonderful Short Stories To Read Online
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?, Joyce Carol Oates
A Good Man Is Hard To Find, Flannery O'Conner
The Necklace, Guy de Maupassant
The Story of An Hour, Kate Chopin
A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift
Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Llahari (IB PLA)
Lanston Hughes Poetry
Assigned Poems:
The Negro Speaks Rivers
The Weary Blues
I, Too
Theme For English B.
Dream Variations
Harlem
Dreams
Mother to Son
Harlem Night Club
Po' Boy Blues
Madam and Her Madam
Madam and Her Phone Bill
Assigned Essays:
The Negro Artist and The Racial Mountain
Formative Assessments:
Summative Assessment:
Written Task #1
IOC
Resources & articles related to The Handmaid's Tale:
Atwood, Margaret. "Haunted by The Handmaid's Tale." The Guardian. Jan. 20, 2012.(Corresponding slideshow)
McCarthy, Mary. "Book Review." The New York Times. February 9, 1986.
Read, Write, Think: Language and Power in the Handmaid's Tale
Book Reviews
Concepts:
Berlin in 1984
Repressive female regimes (policies aimed at controlling women and their bodies)
Reproductive Control
Liberal democracy
Dictatorship
Hegemony and resistance
Puritanism
Fertility
Industrialization
Westernization
Surveillance
Forbidding of literacy
Dystopias
SF Site, 2002
Video Interviews of Margaret Atwood
Atwood, Religion, and The Handmaid's Tale, Part 1/3
Atwood, Religion, and The Handmaid's Tale, Part 2/3
Atwood, Religion, and The Handmaid's Tale, Part 3/3
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