Frankenstein: Context, Themes and Questions
Set text for:
- OCR A Level
- Edexcel AS and A Level
Advanced Learner Pack for AS / A Level
Frankenstein is an extraordinary novel, not least for its stimulating themes of identity, ambition, secrecy, family, morality and isolation. Shelley was also able to predict scientific, social and political changes and upheavals, including the mania for discovery that characterised the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and which reshaped the world and British society in particular.
Challenge your strongest students on their journey of discovery with informative notes, activities and sample answers for Shelley’s pioneering text.
Look out for!- Further reading suggestions and ‘Did you know?’ boxes
- Key term boxes to encourage students to use sophisticated language
- Sample answers and commentary for both exam boards
Comprehensive notes, questions/ and exam-preparation material investigating the influential contexts and themes of Frankenstein for a fuller, more sophisticated understanding. Pitched to the 2015 AS and A Level specifications, this pack will inspire your strongest students to go the extra mile in their journey towards exam success.
Pushing high achievers…- Informative notes encourage students to think independently about the core aspects of the play, including characters, form, genre and themes
- Packed with questions to promote intelligent discussion – the perfect springboard for higher-level analysis
- Suggestions for wider reading empower students to foster an individual critical stance towards the play
- Exam-style questions provide extensive practice for creative, unique responses
- Higher-level sample answers with examiner commentary help students recognise what makes a good answer
- Revision and exam tips help students focus answers to gain top marks
- A carefully constructed historical timeline
- Indicative content for all questions
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Excellent resource. Engagingly structured. An impressive breadth of areas and angles covered! Lots of scope for extension. Key information clearly conveyed, and a fantastic source of insight for both teachers and students. Revision tips - very useful. Great to have both practice questions and model answers. I liked the Top Tips box as well! It was impressive to have questions that linked to other texts... The overarching thinking questions were useful and good to return to. Also focuses the students on key ideas about the novel and its context too. Good wider reading links, and images too.... Questions encourage thoughtful study, closely linked to AOs, and also challenging students to examine new angles and perspectives... Close focus on AOs, and lots of wider critical reading links and also links to other texts - linked fiction is essential, so great to have lots of ideas here. Vocabulary in boxes is also very good for extension - and clearly laid out so students understand and can hopefully embed into own analysis... Excellent resource - very closely linked to the different exam boards... Fantastic - there is a lot of information and insight here! Good to secure teacher subject knowledge as well as a fantastic resource for students. Some great activities and really focused on getting the most from the text, and exploring context.
Filled with detailed and interesting knowledge which would deepen a student’s understanding of the text and its contexts... The wealth of knowledge which fluidly moves between text and context is fantastic and really enables students to understand the vast range of context which influences the production of a text... It also directs students to some fantastic extra reading which would really enhance their understanding.