Frankenstein, Vol 3, Chpts 4-6

1. Learn a new sentence!
2. Check books and vocab
3. The great debate!

Frankenstein: Vol. 3, Chpts 1-3

1. New Sentence
2. Check books and vocab whilst you free write: Must a person experience desperation to know the true meaning of joy? Must a person know hunger to really understand the concept of being full? In other words, must we experience opposite emotions to truly understand life?

Discussion Questions
1. Where does Victor travel in Chpts 1-2? In what way does the journey further develop Victor's character? Clerval's?
2. Close reading p. 168-169. Let's look at tone and mood
3. At the close of Chpt 2 Victor says, "I looked towards its completion with a tremulous and eager hope, which I dared not trust myself to question, but which was intermixed with obscure forebodings of evil, that made my heart sick in my bosom" (169). Remember that Victor is telling a story. Using only this passage, what does Victor want the listener/reader to think of him?
4. At the start of Chpt 3 the creature says, "Shall each man ... find a wife for his bosom, and each beast have his mate, and I be alone? I had feelings of affection, and they were requited by detestation and scorn" (172). Is the creature's argument a reasonable one? If so, in what way does this develop Victor's character and the creature's?

Frankenstein Vol. 2, Chpts 8-9

1. Sentence
2. Book & vocab review (while students are free writing)

Discussion Questions

1. Free write: "As I read, however, I applied much personally to my own feelings and condition. I found myself similar, yet at the same time strangely unlike to the beings concerning whom I read, and to whose conversation I was a listener. I sympathised with and partly understood them, but I was unformed in mind; I was dependent on none, and related to none" (131).

In what ways are you like the creature?

2. Now, let's look at Erikson and how the creature and Victor compare.Where are the two men on the scale of development? What are the effects of their knowledge?

3. Paradise Lost, Plutarch's Lives, Sorrow of Werter

Frankenstein: Vol. 2, Chpts 5-7

1. New sentence pattern! Yes, a new one.
2. Check books & vocab
3. Vocab review

Discussion questions
1. Themes (recurring idea in a novel): C block: outsider v insider, identity in the context of others, loneliness, loss, creature v creator, search for knowledge, weather's impact on mood, weather's impact on people, nature v nurture. F block: identity, self-knowledge, self-reflection, misfortune, search for knowledge, good v evil, fate v free will, divine power, family, heart v mind, nature's influence on man/society, curiosity, story-telling, appearance v reality, acceptance of self and society, depression , fall of man, nature v science, faith v science.
**How do these themes work on the level of the self? society? universe/world?

2. What is the most important thing the creature learns about mankind from the De Lacey family?(Let's learn SPA!) Follow-up: what are the outcomes of his learning?

Frankenstein Vol. 2, Chpts 1-4

1. Sentence review!
2. Check books and vocab
3. Review vocab

Discussion questions
1. At the close of chapter 1, in what ways has Victor changed? How does Shelley use Victor's fascination with nature to remind us of his actions against nature?
2. Close reading: p. 100 ("The ascent is precipitous, ...) — what is the tone of this paragraph? Is this Victor's way of expressing remorse for his actions?
3. "You accuse me of murder, and yet you would, with satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!" (103). Victor believes in an eye-for-an-eye. Is that justice or revenge?
4. How does the tone and language change from chapter three to chapter 4? What does this reveal about the creature's development?

NOTE: track the language of the creature. Pay close attention to when it is overtly negative and overtly positive. What's the correlation between his language and his sense of self? And the correlation between nature and Victor's sense of self.

Frankenstein: Vol 1, Chpts 5-6

1. Sentence time! Last one before we review the different ones we've learned.
2. Check books and annotations
3. Review vocab words
4. Architecture handout
5. Review denotation and connotation

Discussion questions
1. Who is at fault for William's death? Is anyone other than the murderer responsible for what happened?
2. In chapter 7, what statement suggests that Victor views the creature as part of himself?
3. In what ways does Victor's guilt affect his health? What is Shelley's purpose in this recurring plot device?

Frankenstein: Vol. 1, Chpts 4-6

1. Let's learn a new sentence!
2. Check books and vocab
3. Review vocab
4. Free write for five minutes: Looking at the passage on p. 54 ("Learn from me ... than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.) In what ways does Victor's  warning relate to all mankind?
5. Review architecture handout.

Discussion questions

• In what ways does Shelley display Victor's hubris? Look particularly at teh contrast in Victor's desire to conquer nature yet ignore its beauty.

• Chpt. 5: Close reading of passage on pp. 58-59. Lesson on connotation (an idea or feeling that a word invokes in a person in addition to its literal/primary meaning) and denotation (the literal/primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests). Step 1: read passage out lout. Step 2: read silently and circle/underline all words with negative connotations/denotations. Big question: hat kind of tone is Shelley trying to create around the the Creature's creation and creator?