Final Project: Act out an interview with a classmate. One of you is a Washington “Handmaid’s Tale” protestor and the other is a journalist.
1. How do red robes and white bonnets contribute to the impact of the protest? Read more HERE.
2. Listen to the audio recording of the first chapter. Read along as you listen HERE.
3. Watch the trailer and list any dystopian elements you can spot (consider the voiceover, images and dialog).
4. Margaret Atwood’s chilling vision of a dystopian regime has captured readers’ imaginations since its publication in 1985. What explains its success? Try the QUIZ.
1. We visit Leeds Castle on Day Two of our trip (find more info HERE). Here is the trip programme.
2. Welcome to Rochester, Dickens’ favorite city (do this online exercise HERE and learn more) .
3. We’ll take a walk around Charles Dickens’s London (you can walk in Oliver Twist’s footsteps HERE).
4. English Romantic poet John Keats lived in this house for two years.
5. We visit Cambridge on day four of our trip.
6. Adult Learning Programmer Matthew Morgan speaking about The Fighting Temeraire (find out more about the Romantic tradition in British painting HERE)
7. Art critic and broadcaster Andrew Graham Dixon speaks about the painter, his methods and legacy (find out more HERE)
1. Listen and take notes. Can you sum up the video [Where? When? Who? What? +/- Why? How?]
2. Is today’s American Dream a mythical concept or still a reality? How different is the Dream today? Compare Francisco’s, Jaritza’s and Tyquan’s stories with Isabel’s parents’ Dream.
3. How do they define the Dream? Listen and make a few notes.
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