General Resources
Tools & Resources
For Writing
IB Language and Literature 2023-24
First Assessment 2021
YEAR 1 AND YEAR 2
SUMMER READing
2024
Little Red Riding Hood Critical Analysis
A Place to Start
UNIT One
THEMES AND HISTORICAL INFLUENCES
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.
(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
The New York Times Review, 1986
Time Magazine, 1986
Washington Monthly Review, 1986
Reviewer's Bookwatch, 2004
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
UNIT TWO
THEMES
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Dystopia and Totalitarianism
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Technology and Control
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The Cost of Happiness
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Industrialism and Consumption
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Individuality
Aldous Huxley interviewed by Mike Wallace : 1958
Aldous Huxley shares his visions and fears for this
brave new world.
UNIT THREE
THEMES
- LANGUAGE AND THE REPRESENTATION OF REALITY
- THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE SELF (IDENTITY)
- GENDER ISSUES
- CONTEMPORARY CULTURE
- DIFFERENT FORMS OF ALIENATION, OPPRESSION AND SOCIAL INEQUALITY
UNIT FOUR
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's TEDTalK
We Should All Be Feminist
Transcript for
We Should All Be Feminists