Frankenstein

Unit 6: Frankenstein (Film/Novel)

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Instructions

Please choose two of the following questions to answer for this unit by Wednesday at 11:59pm (CST). You should also respond to two of your classmates’ postings by Sunday at 11:59pm (CST).

Before answering this unit’s questions, you should view a Frankenstein film of your own choosing. IMDB.com lists over 385 choices, when you search by the title character’s name, so be creative in your choice. Also, you should complete Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein.

Keep in mind, as you view the film and read the novel, a few of the questions posted below.

Rubric

Online discussions will be graded according to the following rubric.

Full-bodied entries—of at least ten sentences of writing from you (in addition to quotations from the text)—are more likely to receive full credit. Lesser credit will be assigned to work that is missing, brief, or clearly disengaged or sloppily produced such that miscues interfere with readability.

Your responses to other students’ work are also assessed. Students often resist commenting on each others’ work in substantial ways; instead choosing to post simply “good job” or “looks okay to me.” This kind of peer response doesn’t help your own—or your peers’—development as a writer and thinker.

Acceptable peer responses will, among other things:

Explicitly identify what was learned from someone else’s work.
Ask a follow-up question.
Offer an alternative interpretation.
Offer concrete strategies for improvement.

Points	Criteria
18-20	Discussion posts are completed on-time; they not only thoughtfully respond to and incorporate course readings when appropriate, but they evidence creative thinking and make a significant contribution to peers’ understanding of the course topics. Moreover, follow-up posts/peer responses clarify and extend the class conversation, demonstrating critical thinking.
16-17	Discussion posts are essentially complete and incorporate, when appropriate, excerpts from the course readings. Initial post is made by due date, and follow-up posts/peer responses engage others in continued discussion.
11-15	Discussion posts are incomplete, inaccurate, and/or late. Peer response is present but perfunctory, offering little “back” to enhance peers’ understanding.
1-10	Posts and peer responses are not made to all topic threads.
0	No posts are made, or posts are entered after the unit’s discussion has ended.

Questions (Film/Novel)

Choose two questions to answer:

Describe your chosen film for your classmates. As part of the description, show us what you believe the film’s argument and focus to be. What genre would your film fit in? How does your film develop similarities or differences with the novel?
What do you believe the ultimate argument of the novel Frankenstein to be? How can we develop this argument as part of a class in serial killer media? As this is the only novel that we’ll be reading from the 18th century, how does this older work inform the writings that we have thus far read in class?
Why does Frankenstein’s monster kill in the novel? This is a deceptively simple question, so let me elaborate just a bit. What is his reason and motive for revenge? How does the monster admit that all of his killing could have been avoided? What moral burden does this place on us as readers?

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