Monday, September 21 Learning Target: I can understand how the history

of the Romantic Period shaped its literature.

Focus question: Choose a vocabulary word and write a sentence using that word about conflict in your IR novel.

Reminders: Did you show me your copy of Frankenstein? Go to Seminar Room for class tomorrow. Vocab Quiz 3 on Wednesday. Annotated Bibliography due on Thursday

Romanticism: 1780-1832

Major themes: Profound love of natureInterest in mystical supernaturalEmphasis on Imagination and

EmotionBelief in democracy– equality for all

people!

Revolt against…

The Industrial Revolution: (factories, pollution, automization)

Aristocratic and political norms of the Enlightenment

Scientific rationalization of nature Rules, formal education, societal norms

Nature:“Paradise can be regained through man’s

reunited relationship with nature” –Northrop Frye

Love of nature led to Transcendental philosophy and literature (Thoreau).

Nature is awesome because it can tap into man’s creative power and imagination.

Romantics were distrustful of the human world, and tended to believe that a close connection with the natural world was mentally and morally healthy.

Again, a reaction against the Industrial Revolution and the loss of nature in society. People at this time were moving away from country life and into cities to work in factories. Romantics hated urban sprawl.

Neoclassical Art dealing with nature:ordered and controlledLandscape- Claude Lorraine

Romantic art on nature:A Wild Scene- Thomas Cole

Interest in Supernatural/Mysticism “Natural Supernaturalism”- the tendency to naturalize the

supernatural and humanize the divine. Art and literature often focused on supernatural themes:

ghosts,demons, monsters, mysticism etc.

Henry Fuseli

“The Nightmare”

Emphasis on Imagination and Emotion Rooted in German “Strum and Drang”

movement, which prized intuition and emotion over rational thought.

According to Wordsworth, poetry should come from a “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.”

Key to Romanticism is the concept of genius, or artist being able to create his own original work from imagination and emotion, without following prescribed rules or conventions.

The Lady of ShallotJohn Waterhouse

Belief in democracy

Romantic Poetry Romantic period was officially launched

worldwide with the publication of Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge in 1798.

Traits :Imagination, Emotion and IntuitionStresses a love of natureInterested in medieval past: the supernatural, the

mystical and the “gothic”Attracted to rebellion and revolution—freedom from

oppression.Emphasis on melancholy and sadness

Wednesday, September 23 Learning Target: I can identify how to use

vocabulary words in context.

Focus questions: Choose a different vocabulary word. Write a sentence about the resolution of your IR novel.

Reminders: Did you show me your copy of Frankenstein? Bring

it every day to class!!!!Annotated Bibliography due tomorrow

Journal Prompt

(counts as a writing grade)!

Read the poem “Tables Turned” by Wordsworth. Write a CEA paragraph about why this poem shows traits of the Romantic period. Use evidence from the poem and refer to your notes from Monday for help.

MARY SHELLEY’SFRANKENSTEIN

Learning Target: I can make inferences about a character based on author’s clues.

Focus question: Make an inference

Or prediction about Frankenstein.

Thursday, 9/24

Reminders: Frankenstein List 1 packet due

Tuesday Frankenstein Author’s/Preface due

Monday!!!!!!

Background Information on Frankenstein

Take notes on each slide

I. Science and Technology

II. Arctic Exploration

III. Myth of Prometheus

IV. Life of Mary Shelley

V. Gothic Novel

Science and Technologyin 1811

Erasmus Darwin: grandfather of Charles Darwin; famous for his ideas concerning biological evolution

Galvanism: the contraction of a muscle that is stimulated by an electric current. In physics and chemistry, it is the induction of electrical current from a chemical reaction.

Darwin’s experiments in galvanism were an important source of inspiration for Mary Shelley in Frankenstein.

Arctic Exploration During the late 1700s explorers attempted to find a trade route

through the Arctic that would connect the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans.

The Northwest Passage (discovered in 1903): a famous sea route linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, providing an alternate shipping route from Europe to Asia.

Lies between Canada and Greenland, above the Arctic Circle and below the north polar icecap.

Sea in this region is frozen over for most of the year with huge icebergs drifting through.

Temperatures in winter often fall to -50°F.

The Myth of Prometheus Prometheus: Titan from Greek mythology

Name means foresight

Relieved Zeus’ headache by taking a rock from the ground and hitting Zeus in the head with it.

From out of Zeus’ head popped Athena, goddess of war

The Myth of Prometheus (cont.)

Prometheus known as “father to man”

Athena took clay figures Prometheus made and breathed life into them, creating “man” from Prometheus’ work.

Prometheus defied Zeus by giving man

gift of fire to protect and warm

The Myth of Prometheus (cont.)

Zeus punished Prometheus by giving him woman (Pandora).

Pandora’s box filled with plagues , sorrow, and mischief for mankind.

One good thing was there—Hope

The Myth of Prometheus (cont.)

At Zeus’ order, Prometheus was chained to a rock in the Caucasus Mountains where his torture was to be carried out.

Every day an eagle came to Prometheus to eat his liver, leaving only at nightfall when the liver would begin to grow back once more, only to repeat the process again the next day.

The Myth of Prometheus (cont.)

Zeus offered to free Prometheus if he would tell the secret of the prophecy that told of the dethroning of Zeus.

Prometheus refused.

Eventually, Hercules slew the eagle that attacked Prometheus each day and freed the friend to men.

Prometheus’ name has stood through all the centuries as that of the great rebel against injustice and power.

The Life of Mary Shelley

Born in1797 in London, England

Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, was a feminist and an author

Her father, William Godwin, was the father of philosophical anarchism

Mary’s mother died soon after her birth.

The Life of Mary Shelley

Mary met her future husband Percy Bysshe Shelley at sixteen.

Percy was unhappily married at the time, and despite Mary’s father forbidding her to see him anymore, he and Mary eloped to France.

The Life of Mary Shelley

Started writing Frankenstein in 1816 while in Switzerland, inspired by their many sailing trips on the lake and nights telling each other ghost stories.

Frankenstein is said to have started as a ghost story, inspired by a conversation she had overheard between her husband and Lord Byron talking about galvanism.

The Life of Mary Shelley

The Shelleys lost 2 children shortly after birth.

In 1822, Mary suffered a miscarriage which almost took her life.

The same year, Percy was sailing when a sudden storm blew up and his boat sank. Percy’s body washed ashore where his wife found him.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley died at home in London at the age of fifty-four in1851.

Friday, September 25

Learning Target: I can analyze how the traits of a genre influence its literature.

Focus question:

Choose a word

from vocab list.

Write it in a

Sentence about

Frankenstein.

Reminders:

Read Author’s Introduction/Preface for Monday. Basically read all the letters and stop at Chapter 1. Quiz will be on Letters and Background of Frankenstein.

Frankenstein Vocab list 1 due on Tuesday. Quiz on Thursday.

Gothic Novels

Gothic novels focus on the mysterious and supernatural.

Mysterious circumstances: Victor gathers body parts for his experiments and the use of little known modern technologies for unnatural purposes.

Supernatural elements: raising the dead and macabre research into unexplored fields of science

Gothic Novels

Take place in gloomy or far away places that are mysterious to the reader

Frankenstein is set in Switzerland and Germany, where many of Shelley’s readers had not been.

The chase scenes through the Arctic regions take the reader into unexplored regions.

Victor’s laboratory is the perfect place to create a human being.

Gothic Novels (cont.)

Characters bridge the mortal world and the supernatural world.

Dracula lives as both a normal person and as the undead, moving easily between both worlds to accomplish his aims.

Frankenstein’s monster moves with amazing superhuman speed.

Monday, 9/28

Learning Target: I can make inferences about characters in a text.

Focus question: Choose a character in Frankenstein. Write an inference about that character using a vocabulary word.