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Frankenstein THEN & NOW


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Keywords: moviemaker, Flip Video, Frankenstein
Subject(s): English/Language Arts
Grades 9 through 12
NETS-S Standard:
  • Creativity and Innovation
  • Communication and Collaboration
  • Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making
  • Digital Citizenship
  • Technology Operations and Concepts
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School: Yale High School, Yale, MI
Planned By: Maria Gerardy
Original Author: Maria Gerardy, Yale
Grade Level 11
Anchor Text: "Frankenstein" Mary Shelley

Objectives: Examine the ways in which prior knowledge and personal experience affect the understanding of written, spoken, or multimedia text.
Interpret the meaning of written, spoken, and visual texts by drawing on different cultural, theoretical, and critical perspectives.
Recognize the conventions of visual and multimedia presentations (e.g., lighting, camera angle, special effects, color, and soundtrack) and how they carry or influence messages. Examine the intersections and distinctions between visual (media images, painting, film, and graphic arts) and verbal communication. Demonstrate appropriate social skills of audience, group discussion, or work team behavior by listening attentively and with civility to the ideas of others, gaining the floor in respectful ways, posing appropriate questions, and tolerating ambiguity and lack of consensus.

Length-2 class periods over a two week period. Most work is done outside of the classroom.

Description: After reading the novel, students gain an understanding that the creature in the novel and the modern day version of popular Frankenstein are not the same. Students are required to make a video of one of the scenes in the novel as Shelley meant for it to be depicted. Then students follow up with a scene of a 20th century version of the antagonist.

Process: Students choose groups of 3-4. Students submit a plan of what scene they will be filming and a copy of the dialogue. Students then film the scenes outside of school. On a set date, videos are shared using moviemaker software.
Comments
Students love this activity and the quality of video amazes me.
Cross-Curriculum Ideas
Since the novel was written in the Victorian era, this could be shared with a social studied lesson plan on the Age of Reason.
Materials: Flip Video, CDs and DVDs, Reading, Video Tools, Integrating Technology