The Handmaid's Tale Quizzes, Worksheets, Vocabulary Games, Project, and Test

This low-prep bundle covering The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood contains all the formative and summative assessments teachers need to promote collaborative discussions, evaluate general reading comprehension, support the development of close reading analysis skills, and facilitate student research on a range of topics related to women's history and human rights. Included are plot-based quizzes, vocabulary development activities, close reading analysis worksheets, research project materials, an end-of-unit test, and answer keys. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. (Alternatively, a Google Drive bundle option is available.) Students will have opportunities to perform the following tasks:

• Identify what the text states explicitly and implicitly

• Explore differences and nuances in word meanings

• Discern tone in context

• Discern the intended effect of the author's language and narrative techniques

• Consider the greater significance of given details

• Discern the functions of given passages and chapters

• Explore how characters think, behave, develop, and interact

• Compare and contrast characters

• Apply knowledge of literary devices such as metaphor, simile, allusion, pun, anaphora, portmanteau, euphemism, ambiguity, situational irony, and dramatic irony

• Explore themes in context

• Support claims and inferences with sound reasoning and relevant evidence

• Write about literature with clarity, accuracy, and precision

• Develop successful methods of recording information

• Evaluate the credibility of nonfiction texts, taking into consideration readability, date, relevance, expertise, and bias

• Organize information in a cohesive manner, using a note-taking system that includes summary, paraphrasing, and quoted material

• Deliver a formal presentation on any one of a variety of topics related to women's history, human rights, and/or the novel

Materials are available for a range of dystopian texts:

• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card - Google and printable

• Feed by M.T. Anderson - Google and printable

• Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer - Google and printable

• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood - Google and printable

• The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells - Google and printable