1. DUE APRIL 15 TH

2.  You have your choice of reading either Frankenstein by Mary Shelley or Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

3.  Frankenstein follows Victor Frankenstein's triumph as he reanimates a dead body, and then his guilt for creating such a thing. When the "Frankenstein monster" realizes how he came to be and is rejected by mankind, he seeks revenge on his creator's family to avenge his own sorrow. Mary Shelley first wrote Frankenstein as a short story after the poet Lord Byron suggested his friends each write a ghost story. The story so frightened Byron that he ran shrieking from the room.Victor FrankensteinFrankenstein monsterMary Shelley

4.  When Charles Bingley, a rich single man, moves to the Netherfield estate, the neighborhood residents are thrilled, especially Mrs. Bennet, who hopes to marry one of her five daughters to him. When the Bennet daughters meet him at a local ball, they are impressed by his outgoing personality and friendly disposition. They are less impressed, however, by Bingley's friend Fitzwilliam Darcy, a landowning aristocrat who is too proud to speak to any of the locals and whom Elizabeth Bennet overhears refusing to dance with her.

5.  April 15 th -18 th, students will take an AR test in order to earn up to 30 extra credit points applied to this semester.

6.  Students will have the choice of reading one of the classic novels listed on the next slide or another “teacher approved” classic.

7.  Pride and PrejudiceA Tale of Two Cities  FrankensteinOliver Twist  Wuthering HeightsGreat Expectations  Sense and SensibilityTess of d'Urbervilles  1984Les Miserable's  The Heart of Darkness Lord of the Flies  The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes  The Hounds of Baskerville  Jane Erye