Sources and Provenance: Oryx and Crake
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Rights and privacy. The novel is in copyright. The teaching pages are original. The packet does not reproduce the novel's text, film stills, screenplay, audio recordings, student work or school documents.
Source list
| Item | Status and provenance |
|---|---|
| Novel | Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake. First published by McClelland and Stewart, 2003. In copyright. Students use their own copies. |
| Trilogy | The Year of the Flood (2009) and MaddAddam (2013) continue the story. Discussed as context, not reproduced. |
| Teaching pages | Original explanations, models, tables and scaffolds written for this packet. |
| Context summary | A teaching summary of commonly taught scientific, corporate and environmental contexts. Dates and titles are included to orient reading, not to substitute for a scholarly history. |
| Model paragraphs | Original analytical writing about the novel. They do not reproduce the novel's text. |
| Images | None. The packet uses type, tables and CSS only. |
| Audio and video | None. No recordings, clips or film stills are hosted. |
Copyright and quotation
Oryx and Crake was published in 2003 and remains in copyright in Australia and elsewhere. The packet therefore does not reproduce the novel's text. Students may use short quotations from their own copies for analysis, but the packet does not supply passages or page numbers that would vary by edition.
No adaptation stills, screenplay extracts or audio recordings are hosted. If you teach an adaptation, use a licensed copy and follow your school's copyright guidance.
What is not published
- No novel text, long quotations or chapter extracts.
- No adaptation stills, clips, screenplay or audio recordings.
- No student work, names, results or school data.
- No assessment instrument, confidential class brief, scores, bands or test papers.
- No private library index, manifest or source folder.
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Using the packet elsewhere
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Last reviewed: October 2026. If a source or link changes, update this page rather than leaving a stale claim.