Post-Reading
Post-Reading
Time Capsule
You have now finished reading the novel and the final section (Historical Notes).
Imagine Professor Piexoto announces at the Twelth Symposium on Gilead Studies that a time capsule was found from the time Offred lived. In this time capsule, there is much more rhan just the tape cassettes: the capsule contains various items like diary entries, letters, news paper articles, photographs, etc.
Task: Choose ONE of the following options and prepare a time capsule item that shows how life was like in Gilead. You should, of course, base your ideas on scenes and evidence from the story.
Options:
1.) A news report on the rise of the new state Gilead
Go to breakyourownnews.com and create a fake news report on the rise of the new state of Gilead. Record yourself while presenting your news report. Imagine you are a news anchor and have 60 seconds to inform the people about what happened. (Use e.g. https://vocaroo.com/ for recording yourself)
2.) A WANTED! poster for an escaped Handmaid
E.g. use https://www.canva.com/de_de/ or a sheet of paper to create your poster. Include: where did she work? How does she look like? Where is she expected to be headed? Etc.
3.) A travel brochure's description of Gilead (e.g. from an Austrian traveller's point of view)
4.) A diary entry from the Commander's journal, recounting an evening he spent with Offred
5.) A diary entry from Nick's diary, e.g. when he winked at Offred secretely
6.) A diary entry from Offred's diary, e.g. a scene that takes places AFTER the events in the novel ended
