Catching Up...December Lessons

Lesson 6- Multiple Choice Practice

Lesson 7
What is Victor's Tragic Flaw?

DO Now: Quote ID #3
"No word, no expression could body forth the kind of relation in which she stood to me, my more than sister, since till death she was to be only mine." pg. 43

Reading: "Hamartia" From Wikipedia

MINI-Lesson:
Victor's Flaws Victor's Mistakes
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Which led to his downfall?

Guide students to an understanding that his flaws ultimately led to his mistakes.

WORK PERIOD:
Free-write: What is your Tragic Flaw? Do not say laziness. What is behind that laziness? Insecurity? Incompetence? Laziness, procrastination, talking too much...they are all symptoms of a deeper flaw. What is it?

Lesson 8
AIM: How do we account for our tragic flaws when making decisions?

DO NOW: Take out your tragic flaw free write

MINI-LESSON: Rules for Touchstone Discussion
1.) One mic
2.) Everybody talks, everybody listens
3.) Keep the conversation going
4.) The teacher does not facilitate, we facilitate ourselves
5.) Be respectful

TOUCHSTONE DISCUSSION: guided by student developed questions concerning Tragic Flaws

LESSON 9
AIM: What is the significance of Mary Shelley's allusions?
DO NOW: Quote ID #4
"YOU seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did & I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you as mine as has been." pg 36

READING: pgs. 62-67

MINI-LESSON: REVIEW ALLUSION: a reference to separate text, event from history, a person from history that adds another layer of meaning to the current story.

In Frankenstein, there are allusions to:

(ELICIT FROM STUDENTS)

WORK PERIOD:
1.) Review the types of Multiple Choice Questions:
a.) Plot based
b.) Literary Techniques
c.) VOcabulary- (the word "blank" most likely means...)
d.) Author's purpose

2.) WRITE 5 Multiple Choice Questions about the passage from pg. 62-67

LESSON 10- Multiple Choice Quiz using student created questions.

LESSON 11 + 12+ 13
AIM: What role does the motif of light play in Frankenstein?

DO NOW: Quote ID #5
"Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through and pour a torrent of light into our dark world." 65

WORK PERIOD: Day 1 Expository Essay Evidence Collection

MOTIF EVIDENCE

Quotation PG. # Connection to Theme
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etc.


WORK PERIOD Day 2:
Essay Writing:
Introduction
-Theme statement
-Transition
-Thesis Statement
2 Expository Paragraphs
Conclusion

WORK PERIOD Day 3: PEER REVISION

LESSON 14
AIM: Is Frankenstein guilty of William and Justine's deaths?
DO NOW: Quote ID #6
"That poor victim, who on the morrow was to pass the awful boundary between life and death, felt not, as I did such deep and bitter agony." pg. 106

READ ALOUD: pgs. 120-124

MINI-LESSON: Guilt & Responsibility-

WORK PERIOD:
Should Victor take responsibility for the murders? Write a Paragraph

LESSON 15
AIM: What is MUTABILITY?
DO NOW: Quote ID #7
"Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow;
Nought remains but mutability." pg. 119

Reading: "Mutability" by Percy Shelley
Mutability
by Percy Bysshe Shelley

We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon;
How restlessly they speed, and gleam, and quiver,
Streaking the darkness radiantly!
-yet soonNight closes round, and they are lost for ever:
Or like forgotten lyres, whose dissonant strings
Give various response to each varying blast,
To whose frail frame no second motion brings
One mood or modulation like the last.We rest.
-A dream has power to poison sleep;We rise.
-One wandering thought pollutes the day;
We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep;
Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away:
It is the same! -
For, be it joy or sorrow,
The path of its departure still is free:
Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow;
Nought may endure but Mutablilty.

MINI-LESSON: Annotating Poetry- What is the Theme/Message?

WORK PERIOD: DISCUSSION of Mutability

LESSON 16
AIM: What are our thoughts on Mutability?

WORK PERIOD:
Students will write their own Romantic poems on the theme of Mutability.