1. About Frankenstein

2. About Frankenstein Points for Understanding
What did Mary Shelley`s parents do for a living?
-They were writers.
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3. She wrote about women in society.
Mary Wollstonecraft
She wrote about women in society.
She wrote that men and women should have equal rights…
…and that people become bad because they are not loved by their parents when they are young
She died when Mary Shelley was a baby.
She went to a school for women.
She worked as a teacher and a baby sitter.
Women`S schools teach: cooking, sewing, singing, how to be a good wife
**ask which of the 5 classical styles her writing would be? –Feminist/Gender
Mary Shelley blamed herself for her mother`s death

4. He wanted her to become a writer. He wrote about politics.
William Godwin
Mary didn`t receive a formal education, but her father taught her many subjects, so she was educated like a man.
He wanted her to become a writer.
He wrote about politics.
He strongly believed that women should go to school like men.
She was taught that women and men were equal and could do the same things, but many people didn`t think so during her life. Her mother wrote about that too.

5. They had four children together (three died in childhood).
Percy Shelley ( )
He wrote poems.
He ran away with Mary to get married when she was 16 yrs old. He was 22 yrs old and married to another woman.
They had four children together (three died in childhood).
Delete the part about his death? Confusing to Ss because happened after she wrote Frankenstein?? He died when he was 30 in a boating accident.

6. Percy & Mary run away for six weeks
Explain that they ran away together for 6 weeks and traveled around Europe.
Then they returned to her home and learned that Percy`s wife died. He and Mary get married and then travel to Geneva, Switzerland.

7. About frankenstein Points of Understanding
2. Why did Mary, Percy and Bryon amuse themselves by reading ghost stories? -Because they were often unable to leave the house for several days due to the endless rain. PAGE 5

8. Villa Diodati (Mary Shelley Begins writing Frankenstein Here)
So she is with three men. Two writers and a doctor who have lots of respect from people. She was raised by her father who always told her that men and women could do the same things.

9. The four who Wrote stories
Percy Shelley
Mary Shelley
Lord Byron
John Polidori

10. About Frankenstein points of understanding
3. How old was Mary Shelley when she published Frankenstein? In what year? -She published it in 1818 when she was 21 years old. (Started writing in 1816 when she was 18.) PAGE 5

11. About Frankenstein points of understanding
4. What ideas took hold of Mary Shelley and helped her create Victor Frankenstein? -Ideas of how electricity could be used to reanimate a corpse, or the possibility of creating a living being out of dead body parts. PAGE 6

12. Volta`s and Galvani`S Experiments

13. Volta`s and Galvani`S Experiments

14. About Frankenstein points of understanding
5. Why does Frankenstein fascinate readers?
-It fascinates readers because it is not just a horror story, it asks questions about the purpose of science and the responsibilities of scientists. The book also asks whether people are born good, evil, or neutral, a question that continues to provoke discussion today, and because it provoked very strong reactions.

15. About Frankenstein points of understanding
6. What does Mary Shelley find both exciting and terrifying?
-She finds the power to create life exciting and terrifying.
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18. 1). Are people born good or evil?
Group Discussion
1). Are people born good or evil?
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Hand out worksheets to all students and put them in groups of 3 ？ ？

19. Taboo

20. 2). Is there any taboo research in science?
Group Discussion
2). Is there any taboo research in science?
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Hand out worksheets to all students and put them in groups of 3

21. 3). Should scientists try to explain everything using science?
Group Discussion
3). Should scientists try to explain everything using science?
Example? What do you want to know more about? What DON`T you want to learn more about?

22. Group Discussion
4). What would you do? ？ ？