Read Carefully -- Contains Specific Assignment Instructions

TODAY IN CLASS

1. An Adrienne Rich poem.

2. Time to read the following article about connections between Paradise Lost and Frankenstein:
By a recognized Milton scholar and expert on Paradise Lost (be sure to read the brief blurb below his picture):
http://exhibitions.nypl.org/biblion/outsiders/creation-remix/essay/essaymoeck

3. Linked to a professor's site; the course syllabus contains a particularly good list of literary terms (weighted toward the 19th C. British focus of this course, but still useful to us):
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~felluga/eng241/FrankPL.html

We looked at this site for two reasons:

• study the chart carefully as possible further connections between the two works
• click back to the course syllabus for this professor and find the list of literary terms.  Save that site and study it as a further resource (particular for examples in context) of literary terms for the AP test.

4.  We went over the "Hymn to Light" and looked at two good examples of the expected work.

HOMEWORK
This assignment will be collected from 1st period on Friday and from 5th on Monday.  You'll be receiving a significant assignment tomorrow that will make it probably that people in 1st might want knock this out sooner.  This assignment has an initial reading component:

Make sure you can trace Adam's "complaint"  in your PL packet from Book X).  No specific writing required beyond whatever annotating helped you read/understand.

Read all three of the following:
From a college student at Mt. Holyoke, apparently as an assignment:
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist257s02/students/Becky/paradise.html

A second example of student work:
http://mattbucci.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/frankenstein-and-paradise-lost/

From someone's personal blog (obviously geared to intellectual reflections, not a diary):
http://sroibal.wordpress.com/2012/03/23/intertextual-wreading-parallels-of-paradise-lost-and-frankenstein/

WRITING (typed, please)--30 assessment points
1) Write one short paragraph that identifies the section of Moeck's article that you found the most compelling.  If at all possible, extend the idea to anything further you see in Frankenstein or about Mary Shelley that makes the idea interesting/compelling to you.

2) Write a more substantial paragraph  response that defends ONE of the three sources immediately above (NOT Moeck's) as the strongest collection of insights.  Provide ample support for your choice.  If you find something to quibble with or qualify in an otherwise strong piece, state your reservations and why.

3)  Assume, given all the material referenced in this blog post and elsewhere,  that Mary Shelley might have had a complex and overlapping set of reasons for incorporating elements of Paradise Lost into her novel Frankenstein.  But pin down your thoughts on one aspect:  do you think the parallels (or "foil"-like differences) are more important for our understanding of Victor Frankenstein himself, or more important for understanding the Creature?  Pick one or the other here; you can't argue for both.  This should be a multi-paragraph response (2 = "multi"; 3 = the max).

Quick Assessment
Also on Friday (BOTH sections)--there will be a new epic simile for you to lay out carefully, completely, and correctly.  Worth 10 assessment points.