General Resources
Tools & Resources
For Writing
IB Language and Literature
Year 1 and Year 2
First Assessment 2021
WSA IB Language and Literature High Level Course Overview (pdf)
Little Red Riding Hood Critical Analysis
A Place to Start
SUMMER READ 2023
UNIT ONE
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Print and Television
Non-Literary Text
UNIT TWO
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.
(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
Non-Literary Texts for both
A Doll's House and
The HandMaid's Tale
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's TEDTalK
We Should All Be Feminist
Transcript for
We Should All Be Feminists
ART WORK OF BARABARA KRUGER
PHOTOGRAPHY
Vivian Maier Photography
Excerpt from an Essay by Richard Wright
Read Chapter 1
Non-Literary Text