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Frankenstein book club
Freshman year I chose to have my kids read Frankenstein. I did this knowing full well I don’t like the book, and the style of gothic literature, but it’s also worth reading because of all the precedents it sets and because there are worthwhile ideas in the book. I enlisted help for our Frankenstein book club, and pulled in my best friend to discuss the book with the kids. It was a cheat for this book and a movie, but it helped us enjoy the book much more.
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And side note, while we read Frankenstein during our 9th grade year, it’s officially on the 10th grade books made into movies.
Frankenstein Book Club
Sadly, my favorite 7Sisters does not have a Frankenstein book guide, so let me look up and see just what I can find for you.
- Reading Group Guides– if you want a light number of discussion questions, this is for you
- More in-depth discussion guide– this has several questions per chapter, and looked from my brief look to be fairly decent questions
- Overall book discussions– this is more for the overall book, rather than individual chapters, but it has some of the questions we talked about
Total honesty, most of my contributions to the discussion were of the “Ugh Victor Frankenstein is so emo. He’s so whiny. Why do I have to read this?”
I was very mature as you can see. Very mature. I set a great example.
But, we had a great discussion with Aunt Tara over a FaceTime call as she talked through with us her thoughts, on what responsibility a creator has to a creation, who is the monster, the creator or the creation?
Lots of fun discussions.
Frankenstein movie night snacks
We had many options for our Frankenstein movie night, and in the end, I made a bad choice. We could have watched Victor Frankenstein, but the DVD cover looked super creepy so we ended up watching Abbott and Costello and Frankenstein because it had the classic Frankenstein monster in it, but it was…. nothing to do with the book Frankenstein.
Then we found this absolutely terrible movie, I don’t even remember what it was called, but it was somehow related to Frankenstein and him fighting demons.
We had rather few snacks for Frankenstein, they don’t particularly talk about eating a lot of food, and the book itself didn’t inspire much.
And total honesty, I usually try to find the best price on Amazon, but I was tired and trying to get this post done so I could go to bed, and I barely didn’t link to a sticker of one of the foods. Long day, sorry.
- jewels- Rolos on pretzel with M&Ms pressed into them after you cook the Rolos on the pretzel for like 1 minute
- letters- which really should have been graham crackers with marshmallow fluff and melted chocolate chips, but for some reason I had maple leaf cookies
- chemical supplies- random candy
- monster- sour patch kids
- potions- Canada Dry with dry ice in it
- tombstone- sugar cookies, I think a chocolate cookie would have been better
And that was our Frankenstein book club.
Do you like Frankenstein, or are you like me and think it’s terrible?
More 9th grade learning fun
Since we read Frankenstein in 9th grade, I’ll share some other ideas for it.
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