Book Notes for the SRP

This is a link to a PDF of the information that you need in your book notes. I will be looking for well organized, thoughtful notes about your SRP book for each notes check (50% and 100%). As you read, you should be paying attention to these things. Remember that you are not reading this book for pleasure; You are reading this book to Analyze it or Critique it.

I am also linking to a Google Doc which you can save a copy of if you wish to keep your notes in your Google Docs.

Deadlines for Book Notes are:

• 50% due on Monday, November 28th (100 points)
• 100% due on Monday, December 12th (1/4 of your Semester 1 exam grade)

Pleasant reading!
-Mr. Becksfort

Second Quarter Blog Assignment

Welcome, bloggers!

For the remainder of this quarter, you will be blogging regularly. The goal of this assignment is that you will, once a week, go outside of class assignment and read a news article (of your choosing) and write a brief review of it.

Click here for the full assignment.

This is an example of what that might look like.

Also, use of the appropriate unit's vocabulary is nearly always an added bonus (hint, hint).

Please see me if you have any questions.

SRP Book List Assignment

Frankenstein Blog #4: The final blog-down.

Victor never did get a final showdown with his monster. That has always bummed me out a little. What I would like to see on the final blog post for Frankenstein (which I keep typing 'ie' instead of 'ei') is your impression, desire, or whim constructed into a storyline of a rewrite for the last chapter.

Please don't get me wrong; I am not asking you to write a chapter. I am asking you to give me a storyline for a chapter (also called a plot).

I really like dictionary.com :)

Just the high points of how you would have ended the story is all you need. How's that for a fun excercise to prepare for the test Friday?

Good Luck, and Good Writing!

Frankenstein Blog Post #3 Assignment

Hey there, everyone!

The blog post assignment for the third section of the book is, as I discussed in class today, due on Tuesday, November 1, 2011. Here is the assignment description:

Victor Frankenstein did some pretty amazing things using science. However, he didn't seem to have much regard for the potential outcome of his work. Do you think, considering either all of the things that happened to him in the story or just the end, that he received his comeuppance?

From dictionary.com

Or rather, do you think that his pain and suffering was beyond the reasonable consequences you would give him (if you were the author)?

That's it, but heads up: there will be one more blog post after this about Frankenstein.

Frankenstein Blog Post #2

In a similar vein to the last post, this one will look at the second section of the book (chapters 9-17) and you will be finding three connections (just like last time).

Identify three connections between nature and a character in this second section of the text. Use those connections to help identify some philosophical belief the author may have held toward nature and the natural world.

Be sure you make that philosophical connection, as that is the point of discussing these types of detailed interactions in the story.

Blog Assignment 1 for Frankenstein

The first section of the book (the letters through chapter eight) is riddled with connections between the mood and the setting. Find three examples of how Mary Shelley's use of setting affects the mood of a particular portion of the story and describe how the mood is established. Use only what you read up through chapter eight.
Note: this type of view of the literary elements of the story could closely be associated with a Literary Critique of the novel, and will be a skill that is beneficial when we begin working on the SRP.