Studying Frankenstein?

Crossref-it.info has released another reading plan to help you get thoroughly up to speed with Mary Shelley’s gothic masterpiece, Frankenstein.

Where to go

You’ll need to access the Crossref-it.info Google Chrome app. To do this, you must first install the Crossref-it.info English Literature app from the Chrome Webstore using the Google Chrome browser. Once you’ve signed in, you can do any or all of the following, earning virtual rewards as you go:

• Test yourself on what happens in each chapter with easy multiple choice questions
  For example, in Vol. 1 ch. 3, what does Frankenstein study in order to understand the cause of life?
  Is it:
  • a) How bodies decay
  • b) Electricity
  • c) Childbirth or
  • d) Gaseous exchange
    
    You can find out if you got the right answer below, but, even if you don’t get everything accurate first time, the revision app tells you how you’ve done and gives you the chance to try again, also pointing you in the right direction to get the correct answer.

• Go up a level and investigate what connections you can make to the novel
  • Of course it is how you interact with Shelley’s novel which really demonstrates your skill as a student. But where do you start when you need to make your own notes? The investigative questions at this level will help you focus on what is important, so that when you look back at your answers you’ll have a really helpful summary for revision.

• Pull what you know together by working through thought-provoking essay questions, then check how well you do against a professional answer.
  The Frankenstein revision and reading plan tests how well you can make use of your knowledge on three key areas:
  
  • The impact of the novel’s original social and political context
  • Mary Shelley’s use of analogies between Satan, Adam and Prometheus and characters in the story
  • The characterisation of - and relationship between - the novel’s framing narrators
    
    Perhaps you need help with one of these areas right now!

You can do it!

Working through the Crossref-it.info Frankenstein reading plan might well seem a challenge, but there’s also lots of help on hand – and all for just the cost of an average iTune (79p). Why not see how well you do?

And by the way, well done to anyone who realised that the correct answer to the first question was

a) How bodies decay!