Frankenstein

= FRANKENSTEIN =

===**[|Amy Lepore Lesson Plan] **=== ===Used as an introduction to the novel, this lesson plan helps students discuss themes, and relate them to their everyday life before they begin their reading. Students are also required to contemplate the concept of good/evil and how the different themes may be classified. At the end of the reading, this lesson plan can be carried further by having the students revisit the themes and reflect on the novel. ===  [|TeacherVision Lesson Plan Packet] **This lesson plan packet offers a very thorough list of different options for unique projects students can do as an ending assessment after reading the novel, including ideas such as musical memoirs and gallery walks. The packet also does a good job of incorporating multimodal forms of teaching literature, using class blogs and electronic chat rooms while reading the novel.**

[|Beth Thomas Lesson Plan] **This is an introductory lesson plan to be used before reading the novel, based around the concept of cloning and monsters. It requires the students to participate in both journal writing and out-of-your-seat classroom activities.**

**[|Shafer-Riha Lesson Plan] ** **This four day lesson plan uses a variety of tools to teach students the novel Frankenstein. This unit is recommended for AP students, and is a good example of media interaction with literature within the classroom.**

Study Guides
[|Glencoe Study Guide] **This thirty page study guide is a detailed packet for students full of both reading information before they begin the novel, graphic organizers and questions to be filled out while reading, and closing activities to help them capture basic concepts of the novel.**

[|Teachers' Resource Web Study Questions] <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**This website contains questions for the students which are not quite essay length, yet are a little more in depth than typical study guide questions.**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Study Guide] <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**This website contains a decently extensive study guide with questions for the students to answer while they read the novel.**

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|5 Curriculum Plans] <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**This website has five different curriculums that can be used when teaching the novel Frankenstein. The first lesson plan requires students to use critical thinking skills to analyze the actions of Frankenstein's creator, and compare them to the actions taken by past and present scientists. The second plan focuses on literary technique used by Shelley throughout the novel, while building teamwork skills among the students. The third lesson plan is discussion-based, and asks students to relate the myth of Prometheus to the tale of Frankenstein. In the fourth lesson, students will look at other examples of gothic literature, and pick out components that those pieces and Frankenstein have in common. From there, the students will then work in groups to develop their own gothic storyline. The fifth lesson requires students to create their own monster with the characteristics they feel most fitting a modern-day monster, just as Shelley's character created Frankenstein.**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Traci Gardner Lesson Plan] <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**In this lesson plan, students will first discuss their opinions concerning the use of technology, and then after reading the novel use Victor's creation of his monster to make a real-world connection between literature in the classroom and their everyday lives.**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Allusions Lesson Plan] <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**This lesson plan will not only familiarize students with the time period in which Frankenstein was written, but also teach the concept of allusions. Students will be able to identify allusions, and explain why they give added meaning to the text** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**.**

[|Trent Lorcher Lesson Plan] <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**In this lesson plan, students will learn to write a strong persuasive essay. One of the main events in the novel is when Frankenstein's monster his creator to make him a mate. By putting themselves in the Victor's shoes and examining the benefits of either complying or refusing - which will also require them to do character analysis - the focus of the essay will be to convince Victor whether or not a femal monster should be created.**

Activities
<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Mock Trial]
 * In this lesson plan, students will be required to turn their classroom into a mock trial, whose goal is to determine whether or not the creator can be sued for a variety of reasons including negligence and malpractice. This will allow students to view the novel through the eyes of a specific character, and further look into character motivation.**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Frankenstein Classroom Activities] <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**This is a great website if you are looking for a large variety of activity options to assign to your classroom or for your students to choose from in relation to the novel. There are over forty choices of activities, and they range in type from writing to discussing to acting.**

Assessments
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Frankenstein Test Questions] <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**This website has 28 short answer questions that can be drawn from to use on assessments.**

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|eNotes Test Questions] <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**This test is comprised of matching, true/false, short answer, short essay, and long essay questions. Teachers can pull different parts of the test to create an ideal test for their classroom structure.**

**Miscellaneous**
[|Writing A Literature Paper] <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**While this handout does not deal with Frankenstein specifically, I felt as though it is a useful handout to give students to understand what thought process they should go through in order to write a successful paper about a a work of fictional literature.**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Frankenstein Vocabulary] <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **This website provides a large selection of vocabulary lists that teachers can go over with their students in order to help the class better understand the novel.**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|1910 Silent Film: Frankenstein] <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **At this website, students are able to view the silent film based off of Shelley's novel. After watching either the whole film or a specific portion of it, students can write an essay comparing the different effect the film and novel had on them, and how the use of written language and/or dialogue played an important role in the distinction.** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Romanticism Video] <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **This short video (under 4 mins) provides a brief glimpse at the literature and art that were prevalent during the romantic period, when Frankenstein was written.**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Frankenstein Films] <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **This website has links to the Frankenstein film based on the Mary Shelley novel which can be shown in class after reading. It also houses links to comic books, short stories, and other films that were inspired by Shelley's classic, and can be recommended to the class if they are interested in independently looking further into the phenomenon Frankenstein has grown to become.**