Mary Shelley’s novel is almost 200 years old. Is the story still relevant today?

1. Mary Shelley’s novel is almost 200 years old. Is the story still relevant today?

2. Monday’s focus question: Make a claim about a character in your book. • Monday’s learning target: I can make a claim about a character. Standard #4 Example: In The Awakening by Kate Chopin, Edna is restless and uncomfortable in the traditional role of wife and mother. • Tuesday’s focus question: Provide 1-2 pieces of evidence from your book to support the claim you made yesterday about your character. • Tuesday’s learning target: I can provide evidence to support a claim. Standard # 4 • Wednesday’s focus question: Write a sentence of analysis that explains how your evidence supports your claim. • Wednesday’s learning target: I can write a sentence of analysis. Standard #1 Independent Reading

3. Claim: In Kate Chopin’s The Awakening Edna feels uncomfortable in the traditional roles of mother and wife. • Evidence: While her husband is away on business, Edna moves out of the family home and into an apartment where she is free of the responsibilities of a wife and mother and is able to pursue her lifelong passion of painting. • Analysis: Edna feels trapped in a life where the success and happiness of a woman is defined by her ability to raise polite children and host elaborate dinner parties. She longs for society’s permission to explore her artistic passions and to be defined not through her children and husband but for her own accomplishments. Example of Claim-Evidence-Analysis Statements

4. Claim: Victor shows characteristics of a madman in the weeks leading up to the creature’s “birth.” • Evidence: After Victor discovers the power of bringing life to lifeless matter, he becomes obsessed with his research. He claims his cheek grew “pale with study” and his “person had become emaciated with confinement” (Shelley 39). He admits that every night he was “oppressed by a slow fever” and he became “nervous to a painful degree” where even the fall of a leaf from a tree startled him (Shelly 41). Frankenstein Character Notes: Copy model paragraph

5. Claims are judgment statements. They are: • Debatable • Elizabeth feels responsible for the deaths of her birth mother and Caroline Frankenstein. • Elizabeth was adopted by the Frankenstein family. • Supportable Evidence statements are: • Specific and detailed • Relevant to the claim Remember this . . .

6. Finish the novel for Friday Complete character charts for all characters to turn in on Friday Reading Assignment

7. Hollywood’s Love Affair with Frankenstein’s Monster There have been over 100 adaptations of Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein

8. The earliest version dates to 1910

9. Boris Karloff 1935

10. Victor is usually portrayed as a deranged lunatic with aspirations of world domination, a typical “mad-scientist”.

11. 1948 Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein

12. Television’s The Munsters is a huge hit in the ‘60’s! 1964

13. Bride of Frankenstein The Monster meets his bride, and well, it's the worst first date ever! 1935

14. In the 1994version, Victor brings Elizabeth back to life and the creature claims her for his bride! “She’s beautiful!”

15. Young Frankenstein: a satire 1974

16. Robert DeNiro and Kenneth Brannaugh in 1994 version

17. Relate the unit’s guiding question – What Makes Us the Same and Different? – to the novel Frankenstein. WNB entry