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Frankenstein
Frankenstein
Switzerland
Germany
The arctic
Frame Story
The first part you read is:
The letters. This is actually the END of the
story, but you read it FIRST..
The second part you read is:
Victor Frankenstein's story. It’s the
BEGINNING of the story, but you read it
SECOND.
The third part you read is:
The monster’s tale. It’s the middle of the
story, but you read it LAST.
Gothic Literature
Objectives
read and analyze a frame tale
identify the elements of a novel
utilize pre-reading, during, and post-reading strategies
Warm-UP
Reading Check Quiz—
Homework: Read “Letters 2-4”
**Essays due Tomorrow! **
English IV
January 5, 2011
Essential Questions
What consequences do we face if we do not take responsibility for our actions?
How does lack of compassion and understanding lead to prejudice and
stereotyping?
How can failure be beneficial?
Objectives
read and analyze a frame tale
identify the elements of a novel
utilize pre-reading, during, and post-reading strategies
Warm-Up
What makes people want to explore the unknown?
Reading check quiz in 10 minutes!
Turn in your essay on your way out of class today!
Homework: Read Chapters 1-2
Frankenstein The Letters
Robert Walton
Organizing an expedition to the Arctic
specifically the North Pole
Confesses that he was deeply affected by
the Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Example of Allusion
The Stranger
Rescued
Active Reading Chart
Complete the chart with a partner.
You must use your book in order to
provide ample support for your
responses.
You have 15 minutes for this task, a
representative from each group will
present the information
Vocabulary Logs
Here are some vocabulary words to get
your log started…
Ardent
Countenance
Dauntless
Harrowing
Irrevocably
Mariner
Perseverance
English IV
January 13, 2011
Essential Questions
What consequences do we face if we do not take responsibility for our
actions?
How does lack of compassion and understanding lead to prejudice and
stereotyping?
How can failure be beneficial?
Objectives
read and analyze a frame tale
identify the elements of a novel
utilize pre-reading, during, and post-reading strategies
Warm-Up
Add these words to your vocabulary log
Homework: Read Chapter 5/Vocabulary
Logs Mid-term Review tomorrow!
Chapters 1-10 Vocabulary
Benevolent
commiserate
consolation
discern
fiend
hideous
omen
Chapter 1 Quiz
1. True or False: Victor was an only child.
2. True or False: Victor’s mother married
the man who saved her from
orphanage and poverty.
3. What is Victor’s relationship with
Elizabeth?
4. What is the relation between Victor and
Henry Clerval?
The Letters
Small group activity
A Good Beginning?
Urged by her husband, Percy Shelley, to expand
her ghost story into a novel, Mary Shelley added
Walton’s letters as a frame to Frankenstein’s
tale. Answer the following questions in your
group of three:
○ Do you believe the letters are an effective device
for drawing readers into the story.
○ What did you learn about explorers through
Walton’s letters?
○ What did you learn about the stranger?
○ Why do you think Shelley chose to lead into the
stranger’s story by starting with a frame story
about Robert Walton?
Allusion
Referencing a well-known piece of
literature or a well-known person or
event. Authors use this device to make
connections with their readers.
Examples:
She’s an Einstein in math class!
He’s a future Michelangelo.
With a partner…
Complete the Allusion packet.
Determine what Robert has in common
with the allusions Shelley makes about
him.
Chapters 2-3 Quiz
List the differences between Clevral and
Elizabeth.
True or False: Elizabeth dies from Scarlet
Fever.
Despite the recent death of one of his family
members, what does Victor do?
When he reaches his destination, what does
he find out? How has his life of seclusion
affected his studies?
True or False: The end of Victor’s first week at
Ingolstadt determined his future destiny.
Chapter 4 Quiz
What discovery does Victor make while
at the university?
How does Walton react to Victor’s
discovery?
What warning does Victor give Walton
about the discovery?
Discussion Questions
Chapters 1-4
In groups of four you will discussion four
pivotal questions about Frankenstein. In your
group each member will write their own
answers to each question, followed by notes of
what your group discussed about the
questions.
Once all four questions have been discussed
(10 minutes), the group will move on to
another group to collaborate on the questions
and to ponder more on the topics listed.
Compile a list of notes from the meeting (10
minutes)
Present the groups discussions (10 minutes)
Follow-up Questions
for discussion
Can knowledge be dangerous?
According to Victor he warns Walton that
it can be?
Find the words in the last paragraph of
chapter 4 that provide a warning for
what is to come.
English IV
January 14, 2011
Essential Questions
What consequences do we face if we do not take responsibility for our
actions?
How does lack of compassion and understanding lead to prejudice and
stereotyping?
How can failure be beneficial?
Objectives
read and analyze a frame tale
identify the elements of a novel
utilize pre-reading, during, and post-reading strategies
Warm-Up
Chapter 5 Quiz in 5 minutes!
Homework: Mid-term TUESDAY
Chapter 5 Quiz
Find examples of the ghost story
elements/gothic story elements in this
chapter.
What accomplishment does Victor
achieve?
Why is this accomplishment also exclaimed
by Victor as a catastrophe?
True or False: Henry makes a surprise
visit.
For what reasons is Victor so ill in health
and appearance?
English IV
January 18, 2011
Essential Questions
Why were the Romantics important to British Literature?
What effects do the Romantics use in their works?
Objectives
Read and analyze multiple modes of literature
Respond and reflect upon main ideas/themes of literature
Identify figures of speech
Warm-Up
Mid-Term TODAY! Make sure you have your
literature book and Frankenstein book!
Homework: Read Chapters 5-6
English IV
January 19, 2011
Essential Questions
Why were the Romantics important to British Literature?
What effects do the Romantics use in their works?
Objectives
Read and analyze multiple modes of literature
Respond and reflect upon main ideas/themes of literature
Identify figures of speech
Warm-Up
Finish up mid-term today (20 minutes)
○ Once you have completed your test—pick up a new
packet for Chapters 5-10—complete “Setting the
Scene”
Homework: Read Chapters 5-6
Continue Vocabulary Logs
English IV
January 20, 2011
Essential Questions
What consequences do we face if we do not take responsibility for our
actions?
How does lack of compassion and understanding lead to prejudice and
stereotyping?
How can failure be beneficial?
Objectives
read and analyze a frame tale
identify the elements of a novel
utilize pre-reading, during, and post-reading strategies
Warm-Up
Chapter 6 Quiz in 5 minutes!
Homework: Read chapter 7
Chapter 6 QUIZ
Name the new character introduced in
Elizabeth’s letter to Victor.
True or False: Victor changes his
studies.
True or False: After Victor’s tour of
Ingolstadt his mood is joyous.
Gothic Elements
Detailed descriptions of nature
Spooky or lonely setting
Magical, mysterious, or supernatural
happenings
Mood of horror or terror
Appearances of ghosts and spirits
Evil characters or events
Literary Focus: Gothic Literature
“I collected the instruments of life around
me. Then Is et about bringing a spark of
being to the lifeless thing that lay at my
feet.”
Gothic element: magical, mysterious, or
supernatural happening
KEY WORDS:
○ Bringing a spark of being to the lifeless thing
English IV
January 21, 2011
Essential Questions
What consequences do we face if we do not take responsibility for our
actions?
How does lack of compassion and understanding lead to prejudice and
stereotyping?
How can failure be beneficial?
Objectives
read and analyze a frame tale
identify the elements of a novel
utilize pre-reading, during, and post-reading strategies
Warm-Up
List the elements of gothic literature
Homework: Read chapter 8
Chapter 7 Discussion Questions
In a group of three or four answer the
following discussion questions—you will
need your book for this activity—with
text support (i.e. examples and page
numbers)
Each member of the group must
complete his/her own paper to be turned
in at the end of the period
Assign roles to each member of your
group
English IV
January 24, 2011
Essential Questions
What consequences do we face if we do not take responsibility for our
actions?
How does lack of compassion and understanding lead to prejudice and
stereotyping?
How can failure be beneficial?
Objectives
read and analyze a frame tale
identify the elements of a novel
utilize pre-reading, during, and post-reading strategies
Warm-Up
Quiz on Chapters 7-8 in 5 minutes
Homework: Read chapter 9-10
Chapters 7-8 QUIZ
What does Elizabeth believe was the
cause of William’s death?
How did William die?
Who does Victor believe to be the killer?
Why does Justine confess to the crime?
True or False: Justine dies on the
scaffold.
English IV
January 25, 2011
Essential Questions
What consequences do we face if we do not take responsibility for our
actions?
How does lack of compassion and understanding lead to prejudice and
stereotyping?
How can failure be beneficial?
Objectives
read and analyze a frame tale
identify the elements of a novel
utilize pre-reading, during, and post-reading strategies
Warm-Up
Quiz on Chapters 9 in 5 minutes
Homework: Read chapter 10-11 and
complete chart
Chapter 9 Quiz
Objectives
read and analyze a frame tale
identify the elements of a novel
utilize pre-reading, during, and post-reading strategies
Warm-Up
Take out your Quotations chart—this will be counted
as a quiz grade
Homework: Test on Chapters 5-10 tomorrow
Quotations Clarified
Quote Questions Response
Chapter 9 •How is this quote From this quote it is obvious to
see the guilt and anguish Victor is
“The blood flowed freely important? struggling with after the murder of
in my veins, but a weight •What is this saying about his brother and the falsely
of despair and remorse Victor and his state of accused Justine. Upon further
pressed on my heart, mind? reading, the reader can also take
from this quote the
which nothing could •What does he mean by foreshadowing of something
remove.” “which nothing could about to emerge from all of this
(page 61) remove”? despair he is feeling.
Objectives
read and analyze a frame tale
identify the elements of a novel
utilize pre-reading, during, and post-reading strategies
Warm-Up
TEST TODAY on chapters 5-10
Homework: Read Chapters 12-13
complete quotations chart
English IV February 2, 2011
Happy Groundhog’s Day! Punxsutawney Phil didn’t see his shadow—an early
Spring is just around the corner
Essential Questions
What consequences do we face if we do not take responsibility for our actions?
How does lack of compassion and understanding lead to prejudice and
stereotyping?
How can failure be beneficial?
Objectives
read and analyze a frame tale
identify the elements of a novel
utilize pre-reading, during, and post-reading strategies
Warm-Up
After reading chapters 12-13, who do you feel more
sympathy towards Victor or the Creature? Explain
your answer. **I am collecting this, now!**
Homework: Read chapters 14-15
Important Notes from 12-13
What does the creature realize in chapter
12? What insight does this provide for the
reader about the creature’s personality?
Also, what insight does Shelley provide
into how times haven’t changed much
since the 1800s (think in terms of
prejudice)?
Themes: Prejudice, Family, Loss of
Innocence, Society, Isolation, Ambition,
Fallibility
Quotations
Using Chapters 12-13 find
examples/quotations/text support that
display the following themes:
Loss of Innocence
Family
Isolation
Ambition and Fallibility
Society
Prejudice
English IV
February 4, 2011
Essential Questions
What consequences do we face if we do not take responsibility for our
actions?
How does lack of compassion and understanding lead to prejudice and
stereotyping?
How can failure be beneficial?
Objectives
read and analyze a frame tale
identify the elements of a novel
utilize pre-reading, during, and post-reading strategies
Warm-Up
How are words powerful? Explain your answer.
Homework: Read chapter 17-18/Complete
packet
English IV
February 7, 2011
Essential Questions
What consequences do we face if we do not take responsibility for our actions?
How does lack of compassion and understanding lead to prejudice and
stereotyping?
How can failure be beneficial?
Objectives
read and analyze a frame tale
identify the elements of a novel
utilize pre-reading, during, and post-reading strategies
Warm-Up
QUIZ: What request does the monster make to
Victor? He feels he is entitled to this request, why?
Homework: Read chapter 17-18
Vocabulary Logs
You have 20 minutes to look up and
define words/phrases from your logs.
We will discuss these words and
phrases at the end of the 20 minutes.
Class Discussion Questions
(20 minutes)Turn to the last page in your packet,
read over the discussion questions. Take out a
sheet of paper, write everyone in your group’s
name at the top. Assign each member a role
within your group.
○ Discussion Director
○ Recorder
○ Presenter
○ Locator/Illuminator