87 pages 2 hours read

Margaret Atwood

Hag-Seed: William Shakespeare's The Tempest Retold

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

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Activities

Use this activity to engage all types of learners while requiring that they refer to and incorporate details from the text over the course of the activity.

“Keep the Conversation Going”

In this activity, students will demonstrate their understanding of the novel’s intertextuality by using quotes from the novel to create an original example of intertextuality.

The Tempest is not the only text that Atwood refers to in Hag-Seed. For instance, she offers epigraphs from several famous works. In this activity, you will create your own intertextual work using these epigraphs and quotes from Atwood’s novel.

Gather Your Quotes

  • Write down the three epigraphs used in Hag-Seed.
  • Choose three quotes from Hag-Seed that relate to the epigraphs in some way—they express similar thoughts, share a thematic connection, create a contrast with the epigraphs, etc.
  • Consider how you can arrange these six quotes and connect them with ideas of your own to form a cohesive message.

Create a New “Text”

  • Your end product can be any genre, medium, or format you like, as long as it successfully communicates a message. Some possibilities are a dramatic scene, a vignette, a series of drawings, a poem, or a comic.
  • Your end product must use the quoted material from Hag-Seed verbatim.

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