A fully resourced, ready-to-teach unit for AQA A-Level English Literature B (7717) — Paper 2 Section B: Political and Social Protest Writing. Everything needed to take students from first reading to timed exam response, with lesson-by-lesson PowerPoints, critical readings, branded reference materials and structured essay skills throughout.

What’s Included

18 Lesson PowerPoints — sequenced from epigraphs to Historical Notes, each lesson building knowledge, analytical skill and exam confidence:

• Lesson 1: Dedications and Epigraphs — context, satire and Atwood’s intentions
• Lessons 3–9: Close reading of key chapters — narrative voice, control, memory, desire
• Lessons 10–18: Ideology, Jezebels, the Salvaging, the ambiguous ending and the Historical Notes
• Dedicated lessons on mark scheme exploration, Band 6 responses and timed practice

Critical Readings

• Feminist article — historical control of the female body
• The Laugh of the Medusa (Hélène Cixous)
• A Modest Proposal (Swift extract) — Atwood’s satirical mode
• A Nazi in the Family — contextual parallels with Gilead
• Critical essay on the Historical Notes

Additional Materials

• Medium Term Plan — landscape A4, 18-lesson overview with learning questions, AO focus, key content, homework and assessment
• Student Booklet — 9-section A4 reference booklet: context, characters, six key themes with quotations, four critical frameworks (Beauvoir, Althusser/Dopp, Arendt, Eagleton), essay writing guide, band descriptors and SRT log
• Knowledge Organiser — A3 single-page reference card: Gilead hierarchy, Atwood timeline, AO breakdown, quotations across all key themes, seven key theorists and critical connections map