Mary Shelley’s

Frankenstein

Pre-Reading

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Frankenstein Requirements

• Vocabulary Log (at least 30 words)

• KWL chart

• Chapter Presentations (3) including notes and activities

• Chapter Questions

Vocabulary Log

• As you read you will come across many words you are not familiar with. Your job is to create a list of those words with the definitions of each. You will also include the page number in which you found the word. You must have at least 30 words total from the three chapters you are assigned.

KWL

• As you are reading you will create a KWL chart. You must have, at the end of the novel, at least twenty K’s, fifteen W’s, and fifteen L’s.

Chapter Presentations

• Each group will be assigned three chapters. After you read the chapters, you must devise a plan for teaching the chapters. You will create a powerpoint, game, visual, or handout for your chapter. In addition, you will present or teach the chapter to the rest of the class. You should include characters, plot, and literary devices (symbols, foreshadowing, etc) in your presentation.

Group Assignments

• Group 1:   Chapters 1, 9, 17  • Group 2:   Chapters 2, 10, 18• Group 3:    Chapters 3, 11, 19• Group 4:  Chapters 4, 12, 20• Group 5:  Chapters 5, 13, 21• Group 6:  Chapters 6, 14, 22• Group 7:  Chapters 7, 15, 23• Group 8:  Chapters 8, 16, 24 

Study QuestionsLetters 1-41.  Who is writing Letter 1 (and all the letters)? 2. To whom is he writing? What is their relationship?3. Where is Robert Walton when he writes Letter 1? Why is he there? What

are his plans?4. What does Robert Walton tell us about himself?5. Where is Walton now? What do you think of Walton's question "What can

stop the6. determined heart and   resolved will of man"?7. How much time has elapsed between Letter 3 and Letter 4? What "strange

accident“8. Why does the man picked up by the ship say he is there? What shape is

he in? 9. What sort of person does he  seem to be? How does Walton respond to

this man?10. How much time has elapsed when Walton begins writing again? What has

happened11.project? How is Walton responding to the man?12. How much time has elapsed when Walton begins writing again ? What

has happened13.in the meantime?   How does the man respond to Walton's 14.project? Why does the man agree to tell his story?