GT Frankenstein Drills Quarter

Drill 1 11/7 Homework: Final paper due 11/12 Objective: Students will with some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed. Category A Drill: Evaluate your goal for quarter 1. Did you accomplish your goal? Develop an new goal for quarter 2. Use the pink goal sheet from quarter 1. When finished take out your “Scarlet Ibis” draft and proof read for conventions. Pay special attention to verb tense.

Drill 2 11/8 Homework: Final paper due 11/12. Objective: Students will engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions with diverse partners on grade 8 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly. Category B Drill: What does it mean to be responsible?

Drill 3 11/9 Homework: Final paper due 11/12. Objective: Students will engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions with diverse partners on grade 8 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly. Drill:

Drill 11/26 Homework: Chapters and questions 6-9 due Friday 11/30. Main Idea Quiz 11/29 Objective: Students will reflect on their writing in order to produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. Drill: Category A Complete the handout. Main Idea

11/27 Homework: Chapters and questions 6-9 due Friday 11/30. Main Idea Quiz 11/29 Objective: Students will analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision. Drill: On Next Slide

Drill 11/27 Drill: You will have 7 minutes to respond to the following statement. You may start by creating a list of possible advances either medical or technical. Please conclude by writing sentences to describe what life might be like in In 2075, humans will… Think about how technology has changed society. Think about medical advances. What are the implications of possible new inventions?

Drill 11/28 Homework: Chapters and questions 6-9 due Friday 11/30. Main Idea Quiz 11/29 Objective: Students will analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision. Drill: Use context clues to determine the meaning of the underlined word. I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, and may tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of man (Shelley 2).

Drill Answer Satiated: Satisfied to the full

Drill 11/29 Homework: Chapters and questions 6-9 due Friday 11/30. Objective: Students will analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision. Drill: Take out your Frankenstein novel and read quietly for five ten minutes.

Drill 11/30 Homework: Chapters and questions due Monday 12/3. Objective: Students will analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision. Drill:Drill: Determine the meaning of the underlined word using context clues. He was respected by all who knew him for his integrity and indefatigable attention to public business (Shelley 19).

Drill answer Indefatigable: persistently tireless

Drill 12/3 Homework: Chapters and questions due Tuesday 12/4. Objective: Students will analyze the extent to which a filmed version of a story stays faithful to or departs from the text, evaluating the choices made by the director or actors. Drill: Determine the meaning of the underlined word using context clues. He was respected by all who knew him for his integrity and indefatigable attention to public business (Shelley 19).

Drill answer Indefatigable: persistently tireless

Movie watching guide Create a T-chart for the movie and novel. As you watch look for differences between the film and the novel. Exit Ticket question: Pick one difference between the novel and the film and evaluate how the difference impacts the story.

Drill 12/4 Take out questions Homework: Chapters due 12/10. Objective: Students will begin reading in order to prove the guilt or innocence of victor Frankenstein. Drill: In Chapter 10 we meet the Creature. What are your first impressions of him? Select one to two quotes to support what you think.

Drill 12/5 Take out movie watching guide. Homework: Chapters due 12/10. Objective: Students will analyze the extent to which a filmed version of a story stays faithful to or departs from the text, evaluating the choices made by the director or actors. Drill: How does point of view effect what the reader learns? Cite examples from the text to support your answer.

Drill 12/6 Homework: Chapters due 12/10. Objective: Students will analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story reveal aspects of a character in order to develop character sketches. Drill: One conflict in the story is man versus society. Reread the passage on page 103 in which the Creature encounters the villagers. What is your reaction to this event? Would you have reacted the same way the villagers did? What impact does this event have on the rest of the story?

Drill 12/7 Homework: Chapters due 12/10. Objective: Students will determine a theme of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot in order to provide an objective summary of the text. Drill: What is the author’s theme or message based on this text? “I am thy creature, and I will be even mild and docile to my natural lord and king if thou wilt also perform they part, the which thou owest me” (Shelley 98).