Monday - Writing Notebook Entry: "List five songs (and artists) that you would play at your wedding."
-Read and analyze Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel Lee"
-HW - Read Gothic novel (Quiz Wednesday)
Tuesday - Writing Notebook Entry: "What is a monster? Write down characteristics, such as personality traits, appearance, actions, and motivations that make one a monster."
- Read student entry in Collective Creative Writing: Gothic Tale
-Discuss the nature of what we call a 'monster.' View clip from 1931 movie depicting Frankenstein's monster.
-Read excerpts from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Highlight with two different colors places where he seems more like a man or more like a monster.
-HW - Read Gothic novel (Quiz Wednesday)
Wednesday - Writing Notebook Entry: **No entry required for today**
-Gothic Novel Quiz
-Read excerpts from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
-HW - Read Gothic novel
Thursday - Writing Notebook Entry: "You have been kidnapped! You can call on the characters from one TV show to stage a rescue. Who are they and why?"
- Read and analyze more of Frankenstein.
-Answer text-dependent questions about the excerpts. (Due tomorrow)
--Work on vocabulary handout for the excerpts. (Due Monday)
-HW - Read Gothic novel; Finish "Text-Dependent Questions" handout for Frankenstein
Friday - Writing Notebook Entry: "Friday Freewrite!"
- Socratic Seminar discussing text-dependent questions. Questions due today!
-HW - Read Gothic novel;
-Read and analyze Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel Lee"
-HW - Read Gothic novel (Quiz Wednesday)
Tuesday - Writing Notebook Entry: "What is a monster? Write down characteristics, such as personality traits, appearance, actions, and motivations that make one a monster."
- Read student entry in Collective Creative Writing: Gothic Tale
-Discuss the nature of what we call a 'monster.' View clip from 1931 movie depicting Frankenstein's monster.
-Read excerpts from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Highlight with two different colors places where he seems more like a man or more like a monster.
-HW - Read Gothic novel (Quiz Wednesday)
Wednesday - Writing Notebook Entry: **No entry required for today**
-Gothic Novel Quiz
-Read excerpts from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
-HW - Read Gothic novel
Thursday - Writing Notebook Entry: "You have been kidnapped! You can call on the characters from one TV show to stage a rescue. Who are they and why?"
- Read and analyze more of Frankenstein.
-Answer text-dependent questions about the excerpts. (Due tomorrow)
--Work on vocabulary handout for the excerpts. (Due Monday)
-HW - Read Gothic novel; Finish "Text-Dependent Questions" handout for Frankenstein
Friday - Writing Notebook Entry: "Friday Freewrite!"
- Socratic Seminar discussing text-dependent questions. Questions due today!
-HW - Read Gothic novel;