Identity and Environment
Procedure
Task 1
Task 2
Task 3
Task 4
Part One: Does environment influence identity?
1. Read The Oddity of Suburbia by Alice Sebold
2. 
Click here, follow the listed steps, and record your analysis of Atwood's poem. (Concentrate on identifying the narrator.)
3. Reflective Journal: How did environment affect the circumstances of both Atwood's narrator and Suzie Salmon?

Part Two: Go to Atwood's Web site and click on her desk.  Click on the drawer labeled Sound Clips. Listen to "This is a Photograph of Me" and at least two other of her poems.  As you are listening, write down any words or phrases that describe or involve environment.  In your Reflective Journal explain these ideas, thoughts, or discoveries, and relate them to The Lovely Bones.  Then, click on the Book Covers drawer, and view Atwood's various book covers.  Sketch your own cover reflecting your interpretation of environment in any one of her poems; be sure to include an explanation with your drawing.