Exploring Atonement – EMC Approaches (Download)

Exploring Atonement – EMC Approaches offers A Level students a wide range of critical, creative and contextual approaches to the novel, including:

• Activities to prime the reading of the novel and to introduce its literary, cultural and historical context
• Activities – both creative and critical – to support students' reading of the text, in class and independently
• Extensive activities on key aspects for after reading, including:
  • Getting the Big Picture 
  • Narrative Voice and Perspective
  • Character and Characterisation
  • Themes (including a focus on childhood)
  • Structure, Plot and the Handling of Time 
  • Genre and Intertextuality
  • Literary Crime and What It Means to Read Atonement in this Context
  • Style – Critical and Creative Explorations
  • Exploring the Novel Through the Lens of the Film Adaptation
  • A Realist Narrative, An Experimental Narrative? Both?
  • Interviewed in Role as Ian McEwan 
• A wide range of criticism is integrated throughout the material and includes extracts from reviews and academic articles, as well as a selection of articles originally published in emagazine.