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Assigned Short Stories:
Selected short stories from The Short Stories of Hemingway:
"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"
Short Stories from Selected Authors:
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
Additional Well-Loved Short Stories & Short Story Collections For Your Reading Pleasure:
10 Wonderful Short Stories To Read Online
Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Llahari (IB PLA)
Summative Assessments:
Literary Analysis Essay 1: Short Stories
Book Reviews
The New York Times Review, 1986
Washington Monthly Review, 1986
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
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
Resources & articles related to The Handmaid's Tale:Atwood, Margaret. "Haunted by The Handmaid's Tale." The Guardian. Jan. 20, 2012.
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