Monday, September 21
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Learning Target: I can understand how the history of
the Romantic Period shaped its literature.
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Focus question: Choose a vocabulary word and write
a sentence using that word about conflict in your IR
novel.
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Reminders:
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Did you show me your copy of Frankenstein?
Go to Seminar Room for class tomorrow.
Vocab Quiz 3 on Wednesday.
Annotated Bibliography due on Thursday
Romanticism: 1780-1832
 Major
themes:
 Profound love of nature
 Interest in mystical supernatural
 Emphasis on Imagination and
Emotion
 Belief in democracy– equality for all
people!
Revolt against…
The Industrial Revolution: (factories,
pollution, automization)
 Aristocratic and political norms of the
Enlightenment
 Scientific rationalization of nature
 Rules, formal education, societal norms
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Nature:
“Paradise can be regained through man’s
reunited relationship with nature” –Northrop Frye
Love of nature led to Transcendental philosophy and literature (Thoreau).
Nature is awesome because it can tap into man’s
creative power and imagination.
 Romantics were distrustful of the human world, and
tended to believe that a close connection with the
natural world was mentally and morally healthy.
 Again, a reaction against the Industrial Revolution and
the loss of nature in society. People at this time were
moving away from country life and into cities to work in
factories. Romantics hated urban sprawl.
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Neoclassical Art dealing with nature:
ordered and controlled
Landscape- Claude Lorraine
Romantic art on nature:
A Wild Scene- Thomas Cole
Interest in
Supernatural/Mysticism
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“Natural Supernaturalism”- the tendency to naturalize the
supernatural and humanize the divine.
Art and literature often focused on supernatural themes:
ghosts,demons, monsters, mysticism etc.
Henry Fuseli
“The Nightmare”
Emphasis on Imagination and
Emotion
Rooted in German “Strum and Drang”
movement, which prized intuition and
emotion over rational thought.
 According to Wordsworth, poetry should
come from a “spontaneous overflow of
powerful feelings.”
 Key to Romanticism is the concept of
genius, or artist being able to create his
own original work from imagination and
emotion, without following prescribed rules
or conventions.
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The Lady of Shallot
John Waterhouse
Belief in democracy
Romantic Poetry
Romantic period was officially launched
worldwide with the publication of Lyrical
Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge in
1798.
 Traits :
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 Imagination, Emotion and Intuition
 Stresses a love of nature
 Interested in medieval past: the supernatural,
the mystical and the “gothic”
 Attracted to rebellion and revolution—freedom
from oppression.
 Emphasis on melancholy and sadness
Wednesday, September 23
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Learning Target: I can identify how to use
vocabulary words in context.
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Focus questions: Choose a different
vocabulary word. Write a sentence about
the resolution of your IR novel.
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Reminders:
 Did you show me your copy of Frankenstein?
Bring it every day to class!!!!
 Annotated Bibliography due tomorrow
Journal Prompt
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(counts as a writing grade)!
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Read the poem “Tables Turned” by
Wordsworth. Write a CEA paragraph
about why this poem shows traits of the
Romantic period. Use evidence from the
poem and refer to your notes from
Monday for help.
Learning Target: I can make inferences about a
character based on author’s clues.
Focus question: Make an inference
Or prediction about Frankenstein.
Thursday, 9/24
Reminders:
 Frankenstein List 1 packet due
Tuesday
 Frankenstein Author’s/Preface due
Monday!!!!!!
Background Information on
Frankenstein
Take notes on each slide
Science and Technology
II. Arctic Exploration
III. Myth of Prometheus
IV. Life of Mary Shelley
V. Gothic Novel
I.
Science and Technology
in 1811
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Erasmus Darwin: grandfather of Charles
Darwin; famous for his ideas concerning
biological evolution
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Galvanism: the contraction of a muscle that
is stimulated by an electric current. In physics
and chemistry, it is the induction of electrical
current from a chemical reaction.
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Darwin’s experiments in galvanism were an
important source of inspiration for Mary
Shelley in Frankenstein.
Arctic Exploration
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During the late 1700s explorers attempted to find a trade
route through the Arctic that would connect the Atlantic
and the Pacific Oceans.
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The Northwest Passage (discovered in 1903): a famous
sea route linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans,
providing an alternate shipping route from Europe to Asia.
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Lies between Canada and Greenland, above the Arctic
Circle and below the north polar icecap.
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Sea in this region is frozen over for most of the year with
huge icebergs drifting through.
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Temperatures in winter often fall to -50°F.
The Myth of Prometheus
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Prometheus: Titan from Greek mythology
Name means foresight
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Relieved Zeus’ headache by taking a rock
from the ground and hitting Zeus in the
head with it.
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From out of Zeus’ head popped Athena,
goddess of war
The Myth of Prometheus (cont.)
Prometheus known as “father to man”
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Athena took clay figures Prometheus
made and breathed life into them,
creating “man” from Prometheus’ work.
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Prometheus defied Zeus by giving man
gift of fire to protect and warm
The Myth of Prometheus (cont.)
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Zeus punished Prometheus by giving
him woman (Pandora).
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Pandora’s box filled with plagues ,
sorrow, and mischief for mankind.
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One good thing was there—Hope
The Myth of Prometheus
(cont.)
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At Zeus’ order, Prometheus was chained
to a rock in the Caucasus Mountains
where his torture was to be carried out.
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Every day an eagle came to
Prometheus to eat his liver, leaving only
at nightfall when the liver would begin to
grow back once more, only to repeat the
process again the next day.
The Myth of Prometheus
(cont.)
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Zeus offered to free Prometheus if he would tell the
secret of the prophecy that told of the dethroning of
Zeus.
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Prometheus refused.
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Eventually, Hercules slew the eagle that attacked
Prometheus each day and freed the friend to men.
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Prometheus’ name has stood through all the
centuries as that of the great rebel against injustice
and power.
The Life of Mary Shelley
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Born in1797 in London, England
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Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, was a
feminist and an author
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Her father, William Godwin, was the
father of philosophical anarchism
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Mary’s mother died soon after her birth.
The Life of Mary Shelley
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Mary met her future husband Percy
Bysshe Shelley at sixteen.
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Percy was unhappily married at the
time, and despite Mary’s father
forbidding her to see him anymore, he
and Mary eloped to France.
The Life of Mary Shelley
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Started writing Frankenstein in 1816
while in Switzerland, inspired by their
many sailing trips on the lake and nights
telling each other ghost stories.
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Frankenstein is said to have started as a
ghost story, inspired by a conversation
she had overheard between her
husband and Lord Byron talking about
galvanism.
The Life of Mary Shelley
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The Shelleys lost 2 children shortly after birth.
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In 1822, Mary suffered a miscarriage which
almost took her life.
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The same year, Percy was sailing when a
sudden storm blew up and his boat sank.
Percy’s body washed ashore where his wife
found him.
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley died at home in
London at the age of fifty-four in1851.
Friday, September 25
Learning Target: I can analyze how the
traits of a genre influence its literature.
Focus question:
Choose a word
from vocab list.
Write it in a
Sentence about
Frankenstein.
Reminders:
Read Author’s Introduction/Preface for
Monday. Basically read all the letters
and stop at Chapter 1. Quiz will be on
Letters and Background of
Frankenstein.
 Frankenstein Vocab list 1 due on
Tuesday. Quiz on Thursday.
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Gothic Novels
Gothic novels focus on the mysterious
and supernatural.
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Mysterious circumstances: Victor gathers
body parts for his experiments and the use
of little known modern technologies for
unnatural purposes.
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Supernatural elements: raising the dead
and macabre research into unexplored
fields of science
Gothic Novels
Take place in gloomy or far away places that
are mysterious to the reader
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Frankenstein is set in Switzerland and
Germany, where many of Shelley’s readers
had not been.
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The chase scenes through the Arctic regions
take the reader into unexplored regions.
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Victor’s laboratory is the perfect place to
create a human being.
Gothic Novels (cont.)
Characters bridge the mortal world and
the supernatural world.
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Dracula lives as both a normal person and
as the undead, moving easily between both
worlds to accomplish his aims.
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Frankenstein’s monster moves with
amazing superhuman speed.
Monday, 9/28
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Learning Target: I can use diction to
analyze characters in a work of
literature.
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Focus question: Describe the diction of
Frankenstein. Write down a quote that
best shows this description of diction.
Reading Check
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1. What is Galvanism and why is it important to Frankenstein
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2. Identify two traits of gothic literature and relate them to
Frankenstein.
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3. What was the significance of Arctic Exploration to the
preface of Frankenstein? Be specific.
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4. Sir Walton reveals himself as a Romantic (as in the time
period) in many ways in the preface. Refer or quote the
diction in the preface and relate it to Romanticism.
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5. Sir Walton is very lonely in the preface. What does he find
at the end of the preface that changes this? Be specific.
Letters 1-4
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Who is writing Letter 1 (and all the
letters)?
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To whom is he writing? What is their
relationship?
Letters 1-4
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Where is Robert Walton when he writes
Letter 1? Why is he there? What are his
plans?
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What does Robert Walton tell us about
himself?
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Where is Walton now? What do you think of
Walton's question "What can stop the
determined heart and resolved will of man"?
Letters 1-4
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How much time has elapsed between
Letter 3 and Letter 4? What "strange
accident" has happened to the sailors?
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Why does the man picked up by the ship
say he is there? What shape is he in?
Letters 1-4
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How much time has elapsed when
Walton begins writing again ? What has
happened in the meantime? How does
the man respond to Walton's project?
Why does the man agree to tell his
story?
Quotes to know:
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Letter 2: “I have no friend, Margaret…I
desire the company of a man who could
sympathize with me, whose eyes would
reply to mine.”
Quotes to know
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Letter 2: “I am going to the unexplored
regions, to ‘the land of mist and snow,’
but I shall kill no albatross.”
Quotes to know
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Letter 4 August 13, 17--: “One man’s life
or death were but a small price to pay for
the acquirement of knowledge which I
sought…I paused; at length he spoke, in
broken accents: ‘Unhappy man! Do you
share my madness? Have you drunk also
of the intoxicating draught? Hear me; let
me reveal my tale, and you will dash the
cup from your lips!’”
Tuesday, September 29
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Learning Target: I can identify the definition of
vocabulary words in context.
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Focus Question: Write down a quote from
Frankenstein that uses one of the vocabulary
words. Then rewrite the sentence using your
own words and understanding of the definition.
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Agenda:
IR/focus question
Vocab Packet
Journal Response Analysis/Live Scoring.
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Live Scoring
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Sit down right away. There is no talking in
Live Scoring.
Read the prompt carefully.
You must have five paragraphs: (introduction,
3 body paragraphs and conclusion). Raise
your hand as you finish each paragraph and
someone will come by to read it and sign off
or tell you what needs to be fixed.
5 paragraphs with initials by end of class=100
What ever is not finished can be completed
for homework and turned in the next day.
October 1, 2015
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Learning Target: I can identify vocabulary
words in context.
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Focus question: Describe yesterday’s
experience with Live Scoring for you. Write
at least two sentences about it.
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Agenda:
Focus question
Vocabulary Quiz
Finish essay/independent reading