AP Literature and Composition: Exploring Frankenstein
Reading Schedule
November 28-- Miller’s Preface (Cornell Notes)
December 4-- Letters 1-4, Chapters 1-4
December 7-- Chapters 5-10
December 11-- Chapters 11-17
December 14-- Chapters 18-22
December 18-- Chapters 23-24 and the Afterword
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) confronts several significant moral, political, and psychological issues. The relationship between God and man, religion and science, art and science, humility and pride, isolation and monstrosity, tranquility and ambition, and the definition of personal and political responsibility all play a role in this story of Victor Frankenstein’s painful “education.”
Answer the questions on separate sheets of paper or in a Google Doc (there will be individual assignments for each due date). My suggestion would be to copy the prompts into a new document of your own and add your responses and explanations to it. You should also keep the glossary close at hand as you read. Twenty terms from each reading section will be included in any assessment.
When responding to questions, you must use textual evidence and thoroughly explicate your answers. Full credit will not be given if they lack support and a thoughtful explanation.
The most vital commitment you must make is to keep up with the reading!!!
Reading One (due December 4)
Letter 1
Letter 2
Letter 3
Letter 4
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Reading Two (due December 7)
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Reading Three (due December 11)
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Reading Four (due December 14)
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24