TODAY IN CLASS
Credited those with thematic springboard statements.  Keep hanging on to those.  We discussed some of the topics (not all) for Chapters 1-4; we'll continue that with part of tomorrow.  Some of the work for Monday was really outstanding. I had asked for these to be as thorough as possible and some of you more than met that expectation.  Some wrote quite a bit, but spent too much time copying out a few quotations completely rather than coming up with more complete lists of topic references.  And others just wrote a few page numbers and brief faces and called it good.  Not what was meant--part of the goal was to realize how absolutely thoroughly Mary Shelley built these ideas into her novel.  (And, ultimately, WHY.)

FOR TOMORROW
As stated earlier, read Chapters 11-16 (the Creature's story).

I am not asking for absolutely thorough lists, as I'd expected earlier. The reason is simply that I want everyone to consider the entire set of seven thematic springboards, and it would be too tedious to track them all.  However, as the Creature tells his story, you should fairly easily see how his "upbringing" differs from Frankenstein's, and start seeing his own view of family, parent/child ("parent"/"child") interaction from his perspective, and find ready examples of other categories.  Be reasonable in finding solid evidence, but not so exhaustive as some of you were today.

Random things to look up:

British exam system (A-levels, O-levels)

University of Ingolstadt:  http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/V1notes/univers.html

Natural Philosophy
Origin:  http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4202
Overview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_philosophy
18th Century:  http://etherwave.wordpress.com/2010/04/12/the-bounds-of-natural-philosophy-temporal-and-practical-frontiers-pt-2/