Pytash: Canonical Wiki

This is my first experience with a canonical wiki and I really enjoyed it. I found a great variety of lessons that would appeal to a diverse group of students. The lesson plans that I found were based on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. When looking for lesson plans, I wanted to find lessons that were nontraditional and would solicit a higher level thinking. For pre-reading activities I found anticipation guides that got students ready to read the novel and begin thinking about the themes within the book. For during-reading activities, I found worksheets where students could record key information from the text as they read. I also found numerous activities that called for students to keep a journal where they would write down questions about the text and their opinions of the text as they read along. It is really important to keep students active while reading a text. A lot of the activities that I found would be great for post-reading activities. I found unique adaptations of a character analysis, group discussions, small group presentations of a critical analysis and the film version of Frankenstein. I also found other adaptations of the text. It is important for struggling readers to be taken into account when making a lesson plan, I found a version of Frankenstein that was 80 pages and would be great from struggling readers and ESL students. Lastly, there are many versions of a graphic novel and comic books that would appeal to students that could be used for supplemental activities.

This assignment showed me that there are infinite activities and lessons that can be taught about Frankenstein and any other canon. In Frankenstein, there are themes that relate to our society today and the lessons that I came across put an emphasis on students finding the meaningfulness of these themes, in relation to their own lives. Frankenstein specifically is considered one of the first gothic-fiction and the context of this genre is extremely important for students to understand. There are so many lessons that could be taught in correlation with canons and would greatly recommend Frankenstein.