Frankenstein
Where are we going with this book?
- A presentation/lesson done by a group of students (it will be on a couple of assigned chapters) - notes to give, questions to assign, a task to do, some elements of plot, setting, character, theme to show, connections to real world to make, etc.
- Make your own exam. It will have material from the above (#1), from Macbeth, and from the short story and poetry analyses we’ve done.
- There will be another essay - it will be comparing Macbeth and Frankenstein. It will be assigned PRIOR to the exam and then you will write your essay on the exam day.
- You will need to present some kind of multimedia something, BUT it will be about an ISSUE or thematic element that comes up in the novel. Huh? What that means, is that, let’s say you focus on the issue of motherhood (or some aspect thereof), you might create some piece of art that is thematically linked.
- Frankenstein notes with mini assignments. (4-5 of these that are worth free marks for doing them well)
Mary Shelley
- this is the girl who wrote the original book back in the early 1800s
- this is a strange little story
- A competition was arranged between Mary’s famous author husband (Percy Bysse Shelley), one of his writer friends and, Mary, then an 18 year old girl.
- They were trying to come up with the creepiest story.
- She won.
- She based her story on two things:
- 1) a scientific experiment done by a guy named Galvani
- 2) a dream she had (featured a night visitor that was monstrous)
dreams are crazy random firings of electricity that your brain turns into a story
The idea that they mean something is that YOU are making them with your problems, issues, concerns, etc. It’s YOUR idea of what the dream was that makes it a something.
Dreams are not real, they are reflections of your own ideas, thoughts and FEARS.
Maybe a recurring dream is a recurring FEAR? WORRY? PROBLEM? ISSUE?
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