ENGLI201-16 05 18 - Lecture notes 4 PDF

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The lecturer was Kirstine Moffat...

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The Handmaid’s Tale 1985: Announcement: ● Essay due in June ● WALL-E screening K.3.10 from 5-7pm ● Just to get married 22nd and 23rd Academy Performing Arts, donation ● Kinesthetic Learning: Process drama: meaning made through telling stories, empowering through learning, doing and improvisation ● Three parts of the drama, first part: first cue: Matt stands up scripted, second cue: class does stuff third cue: Matt Shouting freeze. ● Genesis 30:1-6, founders of Gilliard used for the ceremony ● Apartheid South Africa: reference to Noah’s children, Racial: references to Ham(who had darker skin) 2nd wave feminism: ● No wolf-whistles ● Protection-discussion around there being a curfew for men ● Seeds of Dystopia-restrictions to liberty ● 1965-1980 USA: Higher education, professions, abortion legalised, changes to divorce law ● 1980s USA: bombing of abortion clinics ● Segregation in the novel set against this backdrop. ● Geographic: the colonies

Creative writing/Blog Feedback: Things done well: ● A sophisticated understanding of the novels ● Good naming ● Good range of tones Things to work on: ● Big paragraphs ● Consistency of tenses For essay: ● Need specific examples and quotes ● Examples on Moodle...