NOTE: This is the first unit plan that I have ever created. 

 

      In my classroom, I do not just want my students to just read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as a classic novel without relating to it or at least discovering some connections from the themes to real life. I want to push my students to their fullest potential and inspire them to become positive and active leaders in their community. I know that I can do this through literature and through the essential questions through the novel. I believe that in my Frankenstein unit plan that I can cultivate leadership skills in my classroom through the curriculum and maybe even outside of the classroom.

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     In Frankenstein, there are many themes such as the birth and creation, death, nature and nature, isolation, etc. All of those questions revolve around the question regarding what is the purpose of life. Victor, in the novel, seems to want to create a new life with his own hands but ends up being disgusted by it. After spending years on this one goal, his life seems to drift away because he doesn’t seem to know his purpose anymore. However, the main person struggling with this question is the Creature who is isolated and scorn from society due to his appearance. I believe my students who are getting near to the end of their high school years may be asking those same questions about the purpose of their life and how they can make a difference. My lesson will help foster those discussions and hopefully make students think critically about what steps they can create to make sure that they do not waste their lives on fruitless things or with hatred as shown in Frankenstein.

 

     The following unit will discover various themes from the novel, but they should all come back to the essential question. Although we will discuss literary movements and other works that are similar to Frankenstein, many of those authors still struggled with that same question of self-identity and also the meaning of life. I also hope in my lesson to structure more as a Project Based Learning unit to get my students engaged and also find this novel relatable in the real world.