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  • General

    English 10 Q2

    In English 10, we will study and explore poetry, narratives, short stories, novels, non-fiction essays, articles and informational texts. Our comprehension of these texts will be facilitated by analyzing and evaluating the literary elements, plot, character development and themes of each work. As part of this course, we will continue to develop writing skills by experimenting with multiple forms of writing. We will clarify thinking and writing by improving our ability to support opinions, providing expressive details and using the writing process as a means to strengthen ideas. This course will provide ample opportunities for students to imaginatively and critically express themselves through multi-media resources as they make essential connections to the world, themselves and literature.


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    • English 10 Q2 Moodle Course File

  • Topic 1



    • "I suggest that we consider whether, like Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, Victor Frankenstein is essentially a man of words, not of actions. and that his whole existence is largely a semantic one." --Stephen C. Behrendt in Approaches to Teaching Shelly's Frankenstein

    • INTRODUCTION

    • INTRODUCTION to week 1 Page
    • Objectives Page
    • Sources Page

    • RESOURCES

    • Mp3 AUDIO FILES of FRANKENSTEIN URL
    • TEXT of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Page
    • Frankenstein LitText URL

    • GRAMMAR

    • READ--Capitalization Page
    • WATCH--Grammar Girl podcast on modifiers Page
    • READ - Modifiers Page
    • WATCH--more on modifiers Page
    • WATCH--Grammar Girl on run-on sentences Page
    • READ--Run on sentences and fragments Page

    • FRANKENSTEIN

    • WATCH-- Frankenstein overview Page
    • READ--The misconception of Frankenstein Page
    • READ--The Modern Prometheus Page
    • WATCH--Video of Promethean Myth Page
    • PARTICIPATE-- Frankenstein anticipation poll Choice
    • PARTICIPATE--Frankenstein anticipation poll Choice
    • PARTICIPATE--Frankenstein anticipation poll Choice
    • PARTICIPATE--Frankenstein anticipation poll Choice

  • Topic 2

    • Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
      --Mary Wollstonecraft (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly's mother)

    • INTRODUCTION

    • INTRODUCTION to week 2 Page

    • RESOURCES

    • Mp3 AUDIO FILES of FRANKENSTEIN URL
    • TEXT of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Page

    • VOCABULARY

    • FRANKENSTEIN

    • READ--Frankenstein Background Project Page
    • RESOURCE--Frankenstein Background Project Examples Page

  • Topic 3


    • But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be--a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.      --Victor in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

    • INTRODUCTION

    • INTRODUCTION to week 3 Page

    • RESOURCES

    • TEXT of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Page

    • VOCABULARY

    • Viewing Rubrics Page

    • FRANKENSTEIN

    • WATCH--Framing in the novel Frankenstein Page
    • READ--Introduction by Mary Shelley Page
    • READ--Types of Questions Page
    • WATCH--Read the Preface with Mrs Ellis Page

  • Topic 4

    • But soon, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly, and exult in the agony of the torturing flames. The light of that conflagration will fade away; my ashes will be swept into the sea by the winds. My spirit will sleep in peace; or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell. --the Creature in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

    • INTRODUCTION

    • INTRODUCTION to week 4 Page

    • RESOURCES

    • VOCABULARY & GRAMMAR

    • READ--Commas & Appositives Page
    • WATCH--Grammar Girl on Appositives URL

    • FRANKENSTEIN

    • Body Snatching & Vivisection Page
    • Women in the 19th Century, Mary Shelley, and Mary Wollstonecraft Page
    • Dolly the Sheep & Modern Day Genetic Engineering Page
    • The Alps & Polar Expeditions & Orkney Islands Page
    • Percy Shelley & Lord Byron & William Goodwin Page
    • RESOURCE: Discussion on Frankenstein chapters 3-4 Page
    • READ--Being a Woman in the 1800's Page
    • READ--Frankenstein chapters 5-6 Page

  • Topic 5

    • Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not. --Mary Shelley, Frankenstein


    • INTRODUCTION

    • INTRODUCTION to week 5 Page

    • RESOURCES

    • TEXT of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Page

    • GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY

    • READ--Parallel Sentences & Cliches Page
    • READ--Implicit & Explicit Page

    • FRANKENSTEIN

    • WATCH--Romanticism Page
    • WATCH--NLM's Frankenstein Traveling Exhibit Page
    • WATCH--Reading the Language and Style of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein Page

  • Topic 6


    • (This is a draft of Chapter 7 of Frankenstein in Mary's handwriting.)

      "[Frankenstein] is the most wonderful work to have been written at twenty years of age that I ever heard of. You are now five and twenty. And, most fortunately, you have pursued a course of reading, and cultivated your mind in a manner the most admirably adapted to make you a great and successful author. If you cannot be independent, who should be?"

      — William Godwin to Mary Shelley

    • INTRODUCTION

    • INTRODUCTION to week 6 Page
    • Grammar review- let's talk about it! URL

    • RESOURCES

    • TEXT of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Page

    • GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY

    • RESOURCE--How to make a Storybird Public Page

    • FRANKENSTEIN

    • READ--Gothic Literature Page
    • WATCH--Gothic Literature Presentation Page
    • WATCH--Michael Jackson's Thriller Page
    • READ--Foreshadowing In Frankenstein Page
    • READ & LISTEN--Frankenstein chapters 14-16 Page

  • Topic 7



    • (Picture courtesy of Corinne Parry)

    • INTRODUCTION

    • INTRODUCTION to week 7 Page

    • RESOURCES

    • Mp3 AUDIO FILES of FRANKENSTEIN URL
    • TEXT of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Page

    • GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY

    • FRANKENSTEIN

    • READ--Frankenstein Chapters 17-20 Page
    • READ--Nature vs. Nurture debate in Frankenstein Page
    • WATCH--A Handful of Allusions in Frankenstein Page
    • WATCH--NLM's Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature Page

  • Topic 8



    • Ring out the old, ring in the new,
      Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
      The year is going, let him go;
      Ring out the false, ring in the true.
      ~Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850

    • INTRODUCTION

    • INTRODUCTION to week 8 Page

    • RESOURCES

    • TEXT of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Page
    • Mp3 AUDIO FILES of FRANKENSTEIN URL

    • GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY

    • REVIEW--Commonly Misued Words Page

    • FRANKENSTEIN

    • READ--Frankenstein Chapters 21-24 Page
    • WATCH--The Creature and YOU Page
    • WATCH--NLM's Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature Part 2 Page

  • Topic 9


    • (Picture courtesy of Corinne Parry)

      "Just as there are physical monsters, can there not be mental or psychic monsters born? The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul? Monsters are variations from the accepted normal to a greater or a less degree. As a child may be born without an arm, so one may be born without kindness or the potential of conscience. A man who loses his arms in an accident has a great struggle to adjust himself to the lack, but one born without arms suffers only from people who find him strange. Having never had arms, he cannot miss them. To a monster the norm must seem monstrous, since everyone is normal to himself. To the inner monster it must be even more obscure, since he has no visible thing to compare with others. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous." — John Steinbeck, East of Eden

    • INTRODUCTION

    • INTRODUCTION to week 9 Page

    • RESOURCES

    • Mp3 AUDIO FILES of FRANKENSTEIN URL
    • TEXT of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Page

    • GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY

    • READ--Bit Sized Grammar--Semicolons Page
    • LISTEN--Semicolons by Grammar Girl Page
    • WATCH--Semicolons Page

    • FRANKENSTEIN

    • READ & WATCH--Doppelganger and Yin Yang Page
    • READ--Frankenstein Today Page

  • Topic 10


    • INTRODUCTION

    • INTRODUCTION to week 10 Page

    • RESOURCES

    • TEXT of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Page

    • VOCABULARY & GRAMMAR

    • FRANKENSTEIN

    • READ--Review for Essay Exam Page