Name: _____________________________________________ Date:________________ Period:_______
Dear Students,
In order to recover credit for English 12, you must independently read Frankenstein and accomplish the
following three checkpoints. You may work at your own pace, but you must accomplish these three
tasks (with a 75% or better) before rejoining your Senior Project group.
If you do not complete these tasks by Halfway POL week, you will NOT have the opportunity to rejoin
your Senior Project group.
1) Pre-Essay Discussions with Stoll
Essential Skills:
 ES4: Speaking & Presenting
Students will have two discussions with Stoll: one after reading Chapter 6, and once more after
finishing the book. The focus of these discussions is to help you select a prompt to focus on for your
essay, go over the study guide, and to answer any questions students have about the text.
2) A Reading Comprehension and Quotations Test on Frankenstein
Essential Skills:
 ES3: Reading Analysis
After the test, you will be taking a combined multiple-choice and quotations style quiz that will
revolve around important events, characters, and quotations from Frankenstein. Information covered in
readings, study guides and in lecture notes (see Honors Week 1 PowerPoint Slides) may be included.
3) Compare/Contrast Essay on excerpts from Frankenstein
Essential Skills:
 ES 1: Form of Writing
 ES 2: Content of Writing
You will write ONE critical analysis essay on one of the following prompts regarding
Frankenstein. The essay should be five paragraphs in length: an introduction, three body paragraphs,
and a conclusion. You will be required to use at least two pieces of evidence/two specific examples in
each body paragraph of your essay. You must also have a clear explanation for why each piece of
evidence/example is important.
Yours Truly, ---Stoll
Name: _____________________________________________ Date:________________ Period:_______
English 12: Semester 2 Credit Recovery
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Compare/Contrast Essay on excerpts from Frankenstein
You will write ONE critical analysis essay on one of the following prompts regarding Always Running.
The essay should be five paragraphs in length: an introduction, three body paragraphs, and a
conclusion. You will be required to use at least two pieces of evidence/two specific examples in each
body paragraph of your essay. You must also have a clear explanation for why each piece of
evidence/example is important.
Prompt 1:
In creating his first monster, Victor went through a process that could be considered obsessive to an
unhealthy degree. However, in creating his second monster, Victor’s process appears to be very
different: Mary Shelley infuses much doubt and hesitation into the thoughts that Victor shares with us in
this instant. Identify how Victor’s process in creating these two monsters is different, and discuss why
Victor’s process changes so much. Use a clear, direct argument and specific examples from the packet of
excerpts to respond.
Prompt 2:
As the novel Frankenstein progresses, every interaction between Victor and his monster is drastically
different. From the monster’s first breaths of life to his plea to Victor for a female companion, Victor and
the monster develop a unique relationship, which Shelley expresses through deep conversations.
Analyze the ways in which the relationship between Victor and his monster changes over time through
the subject and attitude of their conversations.
Prompt 3:
Throughout the novel, Victor is mostly isolated and alone. He has few friends and family, and many of
the relationships that he has end in untimely deaths. Using evidence from characters’ words and
behavior, compare and contrast his personality traits to the traits of one of the minor characters in the
novel: Henry Clerval, Elizabeth, or R.Walton. How did these students act or react differently than Victor
in given situations, and what effect do those closest to Victor have on him?
BEFORE YOU TURN IN YOUR ESSAY:
Please proofread and edit to the best of your ability for fragments, run-ons, and any other major errors
in syntax or grammar that could affect the meanings of your arguments.
Be sure to follow the proper rules of a critical analysis essay: you should NOT use words like “I” or “me”
in your essay, and you should only use proper textual citation.
Name: _____________________________________________ Date:________________ Period:_______
Outline
Introduction Paragraph:
Thesis:
Evidence – Examples - Details
Body Paragraph 1 (Reason #1)
Topic Sentence:
Body Paragraph 2 (Reason #2)
Topic Sentence:
Body Paragraph 3 (Reason #3)
Topic Sentence:
Conclusion: