Pre-reading research task: Mary Shelley

Last updated: 15/11/2023
Contributor: Helen Down
Pre-reading research task: Mary Shelley
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Key stage
Category
Prose: 19th-century prose
Resource type
Student activity
Author
Mary Shelley
Title
Frankenstein

An independent research task for students to investigate Mary Shelley's life, works and relationships. They also then reflect on the key question: 

How may the life and events that Mary Shelley experienced and lived through have affected her as a person, her understanding of the world and consequently her writing?

The outcome is flexible: students can present their findings as a PowerPoint presentation or as an information leaflet.

An extension task is also provided.

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