The majority of reading materials will be contained in your critical pack; videos and podcasts available through your A-level playlist. Tick when completed and make sure you manage your workload – do not leave it all until the last minute.
Week 1:
| Read the background of the text in your critical Resource Booklet including:
· Biographical context · Novel overview · Social background · Intertextuality · Religious and Philosophical context |
| Read and make notes on the article: ‘Frankenstein’ Reflects the Hopes and Fears of Every Scientific Era by Philip Ball |
| Listen to and make notes on Mary Shelley Biography – Key Contexts by National Theatre
available on your A-level English playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4p96vqI3zA&list=PLwaLIaLu8wcyM5SI5unJ2EpuzRFyCNnpR&index=53&t=60s |
| Plan both answers to the essay choices: spend 20mins on each
Ensure you: · Define the parameters of the question · Place yourself on the continuum of ‘To what extent do you agree’ · Order your plan logically · Create a hierarchy of importance within the themes and character motivations |
| Learn week 1 spellings and definitions of Tier 2 vocabulary |
| Reading following vocabulary entries and make notes on the ‘Glossary of the Gothic’
Atavism: https://epublications.marquette.edu/gothic_atavism/ Dislocation: https://epublications.marquette.edu/gothic_dislocation/ Forced Vows: https://epublications.marquette.edu/gothic_forcedvows/ Ill-fated Birth: https://epublications.marquette.edu/gothic_illfatedbirth/ Interpolated Narratives: https://epublications.marquette.edu/gothic_interpolatednarratives/ Monstrosity: https://epublications.marquette.edu/gothic_monstrosity/ Paranoia & Hysteria: https://epublications.marquette.edu/gothic_paranoia/ Transgression: https://epublications.marquette.edu/gothic_transgression/ |
Week 2:
| Learn week 2 spellings and definitions of Tier 2 vocabulary |
| Listen to and make notes on Frankenstein in context with Dr David Higgins and Crash Course
available on your A-level English playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FiYGPKkOOc&list=PLwaLIaLu8wcyM5SI5unJ2EpuzRFyCNnpR&index=52&t=71s and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyyrwoCec1k&list=PLwaLIaLu8wcyM5SI5unJ2EpuzRFyCNnpR&index=53 |
| Ensure you are re-reading and highlighting your copy of the text with key themes |
| Read and highlight the plot summaries in your critical Resource Booklet for Volumes I, II, III |
| June 2019
Essay: Compare the ways in which the writers of your two chosen texts present isolation. In your answer, you must consider relevant contextual factors. Or Compare the ways in which the writers of your two chosen texts portray inequality. In your answer, you must consider relevant contextual factors. Word count 1500 [Total 30 marks] |
Week 3:
| Read, highlight and annotate ready for discussion: ‘Frankenstein and the Feminine Subversion of the Novel’ in your critical Resource Booklet |
| Read, highlight and annotate ready for discussion: ‘Is Victor Frankenstein a Hero?’ |
| Use and revise Frankenstein Intertextuality Flashcards |
| Learn week 3 spellings and definitions of Tier 2 vocabulary |
| Essay continued |
Week 4:
| Read, highlight and annotate ready for discussion: ‘The Medical Gaze and the Female Corpse: Looking at Bodies in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein’ in your critical Resource Booklet |
| Plan both answers to the essay choices: spend 20mins on each
Ensure you: · Define the parameters of the question · Place yourself on the continuum of ‘To what extent do you agree’ · Order your plan logically · Create a hierarchy of importance within the themes and character motivations |
| Listen to and make notes on Cruelty, Violence and the Creature by National Theatre
available on your A-level English playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irZav2XfPLs&list=PLwaLIaLu8wcyM5SI5unJ2EpuzRFyCNnpR&index=54 |
| Use and revise Frankenstein Critical Quotes |
| Learn week 4 spellings and definitions of Tier 2 vocabulary |
| Essay:
Compare the ways in which the writers of your two chosen texts portray men and women. In your answer, you must consider relevant contextual factors. Or Compare the ways in which the writers of your two chosen texts use secrecy and alienation. In your answer, you must consider relevant contextual factors. Word count 1500 [Total 30 marks] |
Week 5:
| Read, highlight and annotate ready for discussion: ‘Glutting the Maw of Death: Suicide and Procreation in Frankenstein’ in your critical Resource Booklet |
| Revise randomized spellings and definitions of Tier 2 vocabulary |
| Create flashcards for key quotations based on theme and character |
| Complete quotation magpie-ing in critical Resource Booklet |
| Essay continued |
Week 6:
| Read, highlight and annotate ready for discussion: ‘Family, Freud and Frankenstein’ in your critical Resource Booklet |
| Complete shorthand analysis of key quotations banked in your critical Resource Booklet. Link them thematically |
| Read the ‘Exemplar Essay on Monstrosity’ for Science and Society. Highlight for strengths and weaknesses. Read the commentary that accompanies it and write three short inserted upgrades of the essay. |
| Past Paper Essay Planning Prep |
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