Frankenstein Today

TODAY IN CLASS
1.  Make sure to read the "Author's Introduction" and "Preface" ; if your book lacks one or both of these, check online or borrow someone else's book to copy these pages.
2.  If you were absent, skim the biography of Mary Shelley in your text up to the summer of 1816.
3.  We established a starter set of core thematic ideas:  Nature, Education, Parents/Children, Destiny, Justice, Knowledge, Friendship/Companionship.  Then with abitrary (numbered) designations, students pored over specific sections for all of these topics (Letters 1-2; Letters 3-4; and (separately) Chapters 1, 2, and 3.  This was for class discussion--nothing collected--but hopefully your notes will still be clear tomorrow. . .

FOR TOMORROW
. . . because we will continue talking about this.  (We stopped at various points in the three classes.)

But as HOMEWORK for Tuesday, be working on the essay.  Remember, a typed draft is due in class on Wednesday. And it will also be due on turnitin.com by class time that day.  I'll open it sometime Tuesday morning.