As you read, put a dot or check at a passage that connects to your topic.
When you have finished reading, you should write in your google.doc for your group’s topic. Each person should record AT LEAST two notes.
You should explain the context of the quote to help you later, explain why you chose the quote (its signficance in the novel), write the quote, and record the chapter and page number. You should include your name. Samples are below.
If you get to the google.doc and the quote you wanted to share is already there, then you must find another one. Each night, then, your group should have 6- 8 quotes from the novel to help you with your topic.
By the end of the reading, each group should have a rich understanding of the topic.
Every few days the group will meet to review the work.
Sample for Limits of Science:
Note 1 from Kristine: Walton writes in letter to his sister about his ambition to achieve glory: “One man’s life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought, for the dominion I should acquire and transmit over the elemental foes of our race.” (Letters, 13) He is willing to do anything-- including costing someone his life—to find fame.
Sample for Moral Responsibility:
Note 1 from Kristine: Walton records Victor’s words about his tale. Victor sees that he is responsible to help guide Walton away from danger even though he hoped his experience would die with him: “You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did…I imagine that you may deduce an apt moral from my tale…” (Letters, 15) He sees in Walton the same dangerous attitude he himself had before he made the Creature.
Sample for Education:
Note 1 from Kristine: Walton suggests that he suffered from not having a guide for his learning: “But still it is a greater danger to me that I am self-educated: for the first fourteen years of my life I ran wild and read nothing but our Uncle Thomas’ books of voyages.” (Letters, 5) He seems to be saying that he wished he had had a mentor or teacher. Will that person be Victor?
Sample for Human Nature:
Note 1 from Kristine: Walton reflects on his own nature: “There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand…There is this love of the marvelous, intertwined in all my subjects…(Letters, 7) He suggests that it is in his nature to want to explore, to reach out beyond what is know. Just like Victor?