Mont Blanc

Mont Blanc--Where the monster meets his maker

MONDAY

TUESDAY

TOPIC: The Monster's Plea--switching the point of view
ACTIVITIES:
- Noredink.com--DUE FRIDAY
  - Freshmen--
    - Body paragraphs--transition words and phrases
    - Body paragraphs--embedding evidence
  - Sophs--
    - Embedding quotations
    - Embedding evidence--mechanics of quotations
    - MLA citation
- Take a screen shot of Ch 6-8 from your QUOTE JOURNAL and submit to this Canvas Assignment: Fr Quote Journal Ch 6-8
- Reading Frankenstein: Chapters 9-11:
  - Q2 Writer’s Journal: Make an entry in your Writer’s Journal (NOT Quote Journal) in which you evaluate first Victor Frankenstein, and then the monster (2 paragraphs).
    - When you evaluate Victor, consider what he has done, his motivation for doing it, and what the consequences of his actions have been thus far in the book.
    - When you evaluate the monster, consider what you know of him through Victor’s eyes from the moment he came to life until now, and also what you know or suspect of his actions.
  - After you have evaluated these two characters at this point in the story, come back and read this Summary of Ch 9/10:

- - - After Victor realizes that he bears some responsibility for not only his brother William’s death, but also the execution of Justine, another innocent victim who was unjustly blamed for William’s death, as well as the misery of those he loves, Victor sinks into a deep depression. He reflects on how his intentions to help mankind and remove the sting of death from their lives by discovering the secret of how to reanimate the dead has, in fact, caused both death and misery instead. His father notices the depth of Victor’s grief, and the family retreats to the country house at Belrive on Lake Geneva. Victor feels free in the natural and beautiful surroundings but is sometimes tempted by the idea of drowning himself in the lake and avoiding the thoughts that torment him. He begins to desire revenge for the deaths the monster has caused and wishes to extinguish the life he gave to him. Elizabeth, too, is grieving, which also tortures Victor’s soul, and her comments about how hateful the real murderer must be twist the knife, so to speak, in his conscience. He seeks to find peace and a measure of consolation by riding horseback, and then later on a mule into the mountains to the village of Chamounix.
    - .The next day, he travels upward in the mountains among glaciers and cliffs, occasionally hearing the cracking of the ice or an avalanche nearby. The magnificence of nature brings him a measure of relief from his thoughts but cannot erase his grief entirely. He decides to ascend to the summit of Montanvert even though the weather has turned rainy and misty. He muses that the only constant is mutability, or change itself. When he reaches the summit, he ranges over a vast and uneven glacier and is amazed at the sight of Mont Blanc across the glacier from where he stands on Montanvert. In this state of wonder, he cries aloud for either relief from his pain or that his life be taken from him. It is in this moment that he realizes that the monster is approaching him over the rugged field of ice.

- - Instructions for reading the rest of Ch 10: Go to commonlit.org (button at left) and read the assigned passage that is the first interaction between Victory and the creature he has made. Compare him to what you have thought of the monster so far. Here is a link to a Loom recording of the specific part of Ch 10 that is contained in commonlit.org: https://www.loom.com/share/f91ad8e6bd26415b82a49c9586576592
    - BE SURE you consider what part of the text you are basing your answer on.
      - I have marked the beginning of the commonlit.org passage on the EdPuzzle audio file for this chapter with a note if you want to listen to it there. However, you must answer the questions in commonlit.org--there are NO questions on EdPuzzle.
    - This is the first time that Victor has considered that he might owe his creation anything--that perhaps as its creator, he might have neglected to care for his creation and fulfill his responsibilities to it. He also wants to verify whether it is the monster indeed that is responsible for the death of William.
      - NOTE: At this point in the novel, the narrator of the story switches to the viewpoint of the monster himself. He will tell all that has happened to him in the time that Victor has covered, which of course Victor could not have any knowledge of. This week will be focused on the monster’s story, as told in his own words.
  - Instructions for reading Ch 11: CHOOSE ONE of these activities:

1. 1. 1. Go to EdPuzzle to read Ch 11 and answer the questions,
    2. OR listen to the recorded version (see below) while reading Ch 11 in Notability, and answer the alternative discussion questions. Screenshot your answers and submit them to this Canvas Assignment--Frank Ch 11--alternative dq

- - - Ch 11 LOOM link: https://www.loom.com/share/8805d5329ca64813a37d516a4efec17a
  - EVERYONE: Complete a quote journal for ch 10-11 (NOT ch 9!)

HOMEWORK:
- Complete Ch 10-11 work (includes reading questions--EITHER EdPuzzle OR the alternative dq--AND Quote Journal entries) by 7:30 a.m. Wednesday.
- Complete NRI work by Friday.
OFFICE HOURS:
- I will be available in a Google Hangout Meet every day this week from 10:00-11:00 a.m. to answer questions and help with any issues you may have, as well as to play assigned chapters aloud for those students who cannot access EdPuzzle. While the Google Hangout Meet will be open, I may be working in another window if no one is present, so give me a shoutout or quick email if I do not seem to be responding to you.
- Join Google Meet
  
  Or join by dialing +1 413-497-4053 pin: 124798211
  
  Conference ID: inp-ymbt-mte

WEDNESDAY

TOPIC: Frankenstein Ch 12
ACTIVITIES:
- Instructions for reading Ch 12: CHOOSE ONE:
  1. EdPuzzle (button at left)--Ch 12 of Frankenstein (utilize the full text PDF of Frankenstein in Notability for reading)
  2. OR read Ch 12 in Notability as you LISTEN to the recorded LOOM audio file and complete the alternative discussion questions
    - Ch 12 LOOM link: https://www.loom.com/share/e50589df199946cf8647f14e9fdc3c06
    - Canvas Assignment: Frank Ch 12--alternative dq
- Complete a Quote Journal entry for Ch 12--complete all squares
- Take a screen shot of your quote journal entries for Ch 10-12 and submit on Canvas
  - Utilize Command-Shift-4 to take the screen shot
  - Canvas Assignment: Fr QUOTE JOURNAL--Ch 10-12
HOMEWORK:
- Complete Ch 12 work in Frankenstein before your next class meeting day.
- Complete NRI work by Friday.

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

TOPIC: Frankenstein, Ch 13-15
ACTIVITIES:
- EdPuzzle--Ch 13/15 of Frankenstein (button at left) OR alternative discussion questions + LOOM link + read the novel text
  - Instructions for reading Ch 13: CHOOSE ONE:
    1. Go to EdPuzzle to read Ch 13 (button at left) and answer the questions
    2. OR listen to the recorded version (see LOOM link below) while reading Ch 13 in Notability, and answer the alternative discussion questions.
      - Ch 13 LOOM link: https://www.loom.com/share/cd723f869b584658944e478fdc2daf9c
      - Screenshot your answers and submit them to this Canvas Assignment: Frank Ch 13--alternative dq
- Read this Chapter 14/15 summary:
  - Ch 14: In this chapter the monster tells Victor that the cottagers used to be a high-ranking family in Paris and that the father's name was DeLacey. Safie's father was a Turk and her mother was a Christian Arab that had been sold into slavery before Safie's father had married her. Safie's mother raised her to be educated and free in her thinking. Safie's father was in Paris on business when he offended someone powerful, was imprisoned and sentenced to be executed. Felix was in court when Safie's father was sentenced to death, and all of Paris knew it was unjust. Felix determined to help the man escape. In order to bind Felix to this promise, Safie's father promised Felix Safie's hand in marriage. The night before the execution was scheduled to take place, Felix contrived the father's escape to Italy. Felix and Safie were falling in love, but the French government had discovered the details of the plot and arrested DeLacey and Agatha. Felix immediately returned to Paris and turned himself in, but then all three of them were detained in prison. All their wealth was seized by the government, and they were exiled--condemned to never return to France on pain of death. The family ran away to Germany, to the cottage in which the monster had discovered them. Meanwhile, Safie's father ran away in haste, ordering Safie to follow soon after--as soon as she could gather together all of his accumulated property and wealth. Instead, she took some jewels and money and sought to find Felix and his family in Germany.
  - Ch 15 (first part): Now that the monster has learned the language and how to read, he makes a fortunate discovery. On his nightly search for food and firewood, he comes across a traveler's suitcase (maybe it fell off the carriage at a bump in the road?) that contains clothing and 3 books: Paradise Lost, part of Plutarch's Lives, and the Sorrows of Werter, which he eagerly begins to read and study. From the Sorrows of Werter, the monster learns to sympathize and empathize with the main character, seeing his own sorrows and problem demonstrated in the story, and weeping at the death of the main character. He also begins to have questions about his own origins, and about his future. From Plutarch, he explores the lives of heroes and the high ideals by which they lived, and begins to understand the working of the larger society, not just the small world of his cottagers. He learns to passionately love virtues--the best qualities of good people--and to hate men's vices--the worst parts of their characters. But Paradise Lost hits home with the monster at an even deeper level. This epic length poem tells the story contained in Genesis--the story of the creation of the heavens and the earth and all that fills it, including man himself. The monster notes that like Adam, he himself has no human father (that he knows of at this time), and seems to have come to life fully formed. But the monster also sees that his miserable state is completely opposite to Adam's perfect life in the paradise that is the Garden of Eden. So he then sees that he himself is actually more like Satan, envying the life of bliss that others enjoy. At this point he also discovers in the pocket of the clothes he took from Frankenstein's apartment/laboratory (probably his lab coat) a journal that Victor had kept in the months leading up to animating the monster, relating in detail all the horrific process, and in language that clearly conveys Victor's disgust at the work of his hands. The monster hates the day that Victor gave him life and feels himself cursed even beyond Satan because he is so alone. Even Satan had his minions. And the monster knows his form is as hideous as man's form is beautiful. He feels like a kind of cruel joke, and falls into a great depression. Only his hope that the cottagers might be virtuous enough to give him a chance keeps him from total despair. He curses his creator for abandoning him. He realizes he needs kindness and sympathy, and believes he deserves at least those things. Does he? It is time for you to decide.
- Instructions for reading the rest of Ch 15: CHOOSE ONE:
  1. Go to EdPuzzle to read Ch 15 (button at left) and answer the questions.
  2. OR listen to the recorded version (see LOOM link below) while reading Ch 15 in Notability, and answer the alternative discussion questions.
    - Ch 15 LOOM link: https://www.loom.com/share/782b9fe462ae406c9d0d425e70ef7d5f
    - Screenshot your answers and submit them to this Canvas Assignment: Frank Ch 15--alternative dq
- EVERYONE completes a QUOTE JOURNAL entry for Ch 13 and 15 (NOT 14!).
- Verso (see button at left): Go back and read your previous evaluation of Victor Frankenstein and the monster in your Q2 Writer's Journal. How has your evaluation of each character changed as you have read the story from the monster's viewpoint? Remember that what you wrote then was based on what you learned when Victor was the narrator. What difference does the point of view of the narrator of a story make? Complete the Verso activity--Evaluating the Monster OR Victor Frankenstein
  - If you need to join your class on Verso, follow these directions:
    Verso: Set up your account using your school Gmail/password and these class codes.
    - per2--pfkoft
    - per3--qxmb4k
    - per4--e31a3x
    - per5--yv0mym
    - per7--8dizjs

HOMEWORK:

Complete NoRedInk assignments by 3:00 p.m. today.
Complete Ch 13- 15 work, along with the Jamboard assn. by 7:30 a.m. Monday.

RESOURCES

Full texts of the novel:
- 1st PDF--Frankenstein (live links in table of contents)
- 2nd PDF--ENTIRE novel--no gaps (Frankenstein)
IF YOU NEED HELP WITH THE QUOTE JOURNAL: Character/Theme quote journal: Complete as a Word or Google doc OR as a PDF in Notability--YOUR CHOICE
- Frankenstein Quote Journal--WORD DOC
- Frankenstein Quote Journal--PDF