Margaret Atwood Teacher Resources

Talk about a teaser! A short video from the PBS series, The Great American Read, offers just enough information about Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale to fascinate viewers and have them reaching for the book. The author asserts she...

Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, published in 1985, remains a timeless and cautionary tale. Naomi Mercer offers a cogent argument for why Atwood's speculative fiction should should be a part of the modern language arts canon.

In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 12 multiple choice questions about Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Students may submit their answers to be scored.

Metaphors are word pictures, creating images in our brains that draw readers to consider how two seemingly unrelated items are alike. Poems by Langston Hughes, Margaret Atwood, and Naomi Shihad Nye provide learners with an opportunity to...

To prepare for crafting their own memoir, class members examine poetry by Margaret Atwood, Billy Collins, Robert Hayden, and Claude McKay, stories by Richard Rodriquez and Willa Cather, and Barry Levinson's film Avalon. They examine...

Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale is the focus of a Great American Read video that urges viewers to read this dystopian novel about a villainous society that oppresses women and minority groups.

Words matter. Words frame thought. Words are symbolic. Readers of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale examine how the words In Gilead's "New Language" reinforce the power of the government and provided insight into the symbolic level...

In this literature activity, students respond to 15 short answer and essay questions about Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Students may also link to an online interactive quiz on the novel at the bottom of the page.

Great literature discussions are a consequence of carefully crafted questions, interpretative questions that permit more than one response, and responses supported by specific evidence from the text. The discussion questions in a guide...

The Poetry Foundation profiles Canadian writer Margaret Atwood.

Margaret Atwood's online home. Find biographical information, photos, bibliographies, excerpts, a link to her blog and to her Twitter feed, news, and the like.

Margaret Atwood is a novelist, essayist, critic, and activist, and one of the most heavily awarded writers of recent times. In this video [26:53] interview, recorded at Perth Writers Festival, Jennifer Byrne speaks with Margaret about...

A coup by religious extremists helps to establish the sexually-oppressive, dystopian Republic of Gilead. Offred, a Handmaid, struggles with her role as a reproductive servant to the elite. Selected (8) reading passages (grades 9-11) to...

An overview of the work of Margaret Atwood that comments on her feminist voice and the controversial topics she so often addresses. A bibliography of her work is also included.

Poets.org provides a brief biographical overview of Margaret Atwood including information on her life and links to selected poems. A column of links to additional reading information on Atwood is also provided.

Ira talks with novelist Margaret Atwood about her new story of a genetically modified dystopia.

The Margaret Atwood Society is a group of students, teachers, and scholars who enjoy the works and writings of Canadian author Margaret Atwood. Site includes information about the author and accepts submissions for writing awards.

Profile of Margaret Atwood, with a like to one of her poems, "In the Secular Night."

A lengthy biography and list of works by Atwood.

An interview with Margaret Atwood, from 1997, in which she discusses her politics and a number of her works.

An image of Margaret Atwood.

An image of Margaret Atwood.

An image of Margaret Atwood.

John Green discusses Margaret Atwood's speculative fiction novel, The Handmaid's Tale. John looks at some of the themes in this classic dystopian novel, many of which are kind of a downer. The world of Gilead that Atwood created looks at...