English - Summer Reading - 10th Grade

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Please read this book by the first day of class and bring in a one page (typed) journal response to one of the questions listed below:

1.  If you were making a contemporary version of the book, who would you cast and why?

2.  Are you drawn more to Dr. Frankenstein or the monster? Explain.

3.  Choose one of the major characters and in the voice and character of that person write a letter (about any topic) to a literary character in another book you have read (in 9th grade English or to someone in contemporary life).

There will be a short reading quiz on the book during the first week of school.  Consider the questions printed below as you read:

1. Is Victor Frankenstein to be admired or deplored?

2. As you become more familiar with the monster do your feelings toward Dr. Frankenstein  

change?

3.  At the end of the novel the monster says, “Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all human kind sinned against me?” Compare the monsters crimes to the “crimes” committed against him.