Year 8 Library Skills Booklet

NAME:TEACHER:

Every library lesson, we will be reading a passage that relates to the novel Frankenstein.

There will also be a homework task for you to complete.

Reading 1 Life in the Early 1900s

Reading 2 Who Was Prometheus?

Reading 3 Luigi Galvani

Reading 4 The Year Without A Summer

Reading 5 A Contemporary Review

Reading 1 Life in the early 1800s

Pre-Reading Think-Pair-Share Activity

Complete the following three vocabulary windows.

The first is done for you as an example.

You need to fill in the remaining three boxes of the other two.

WORD

grim

WORD FUNCTION

adjective

DEFINITION

Unattractive or forbidding; harsh

WORD IN A SENTENCE

Few animals survived in the grim land.

WORD

squalor

WORD FUNCTION

DEFINITION

WORD IN A SENTENCE

WORD

slum

WORD FUNCTION

DEFINITION

WORD IN A SENTENCE

Just based on the three words above, make a comment about what life was like in the early 1800s in cities in England.

Notes from class discussion

Focussed Questions

Using your notes from the class discussion, answer these questions below:

1. In your own words, explain why many people turned to crime after moving to the cities.

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2. Why does a site about Crime and Punishment need a section on living conditions?

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3. Evaluate the effectiveness of the attempt to make this web page look like a 19th Century piece of paper. Refer to specific details.

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4. Explain why this page does not use exclamation marks. Refer to the purpose and audience of the text in your answer.

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5. Using an example from the final paragraph, explain how and why commas to mark clauses are used.

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6. Based on this information, do you think Frankenstein would have been popular when it was published in 1818? Explain your answer.

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Extended Response

Imagine a 12 year old factory worker from 1816 is magically transported through time and meets you.

Write your own first person account of meeting this worker and describe his/her reactions to life in the present day.

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Homework Mary Shelley research task

Research facts about Mary Shelley. Use the internet or library books. Some of these tasks require you to use the facts you learn to answer a question.

Born: ________________ Died: ______________

Fathers name and occupation: __________________________________

Mothers name: ______________________________

How and when did Mary Shelleys mother die? What is the connection between this and Victor Frankenstein?

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Describe what Marys upbringing would probably have been like.

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Who did Mary Shelley marry and why did the couple have to elope? (check the meaning of elope if you do not know)

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Her husband was an important figure in his own right. Why?

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Do you think Mary Shelley would have experienced much of the negative side of life in early 1800s England portrayed in this weeks reading? Why or why not?

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Reading 2 Who was Prometheus?

Pre-Reading Think-Pair-Share Activity

This picture is of a Greek myth.

What do you think is happening in this picture?

How are we supposed to feel about the people in the picture?

The Myth of Prometheus

Notes from class discussion

Focussed Questions

Using your notes from the class discussion, answer these questions below:

1. In your own words, explain Prometheus involvement in the war between the Olympian Gods and the Titans.

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2. Why did Epimetheus need his brothers help when creating humans?

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3. Out of the options below, what form is this text? Explain your answer.

Diary entrynarrativeinformative articlePersuasive piece

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4. Find an example of a complex sentence that uses commas to mark the subordinate clause. Copy it out and underline the main clause and circle the subordinate clause.

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5. Explain how and why an ellipsis is used in this text.

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6. Explain how and why dashes are used in this text.

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