The Booker Prize 2019

In the spirit of International mindedness, we, across space and time, are all super excited about the first time Joint winners of the Booker's Prize for 2019.



Did you know DP1 that we will be studying The Handmaid's Tale next term and that the Booker's prize for 2019 has been won by its sequel, The Testaments?






Here are a few questions to get you thinking about the books that we, as your teachers, select for your DP Lanugage A courses:

Choose any one of the books you're currently studying in the course, and find out:
  • If it's an international bestseller?
  • If it has won an award, or a Booker's or a Pulitzer or any other?
  • If the author has won a Nobel Peace Prize?  
And then, perhaps reflect on your Areas of Exploration question,  

 Readers, writers and texts
  • Read the blurbs of your selected book and/or the two books that have won the Bookers' Prize for 2019, here, and reflect on how and why do you think they are worth studying as literary texts? 
  • How are we affected by these texts in various ways? 
  • What insights and challenges do you think they are offering us? 
Intertextuality:connecting texts:
  • If all of these texts are classics, how valid is the notion of a classic text?  What is it that makes them 'classic'?
Time and Space 
  • How important is cultural or historical context to the production and reception of a text? 
  • Do you think the production and reception of The Testaments is going to change the meaning and impact of The Handmaid's Tale? And vice versa?  
Please post an original comment as well as reply to another peer's comment. 
Deadline: 23.10.2019

Thank you boys and girls :)






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