It’s Alive! Frankenstein at 200 Online Teacher Curriculum

Introduction for Teachers

This section provides a brief overview of the curriculum’s structure, material credits and acknowledgments, a Table of Contents, an Introduction for Teachers, and a plot synopsis of Frankenstein.

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LEFT: Henry Fuseli (1741–1825), The Nightmare, 1781, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, USAFounders Society Purchase with funds from
Mr. and Mrs. Bert L. Smokler and Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleischman/Bridgeman Images; CENTER: Risen from the Dead; or, the medical student, Boys' weekly reader novelette. Vol. IV, no 39 Pamphlet, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations; RIGHT: Carl Laemmle Presents Frankenstein: The Man Who Made a Monster, 1931, Lithograph poster, Stephen Fishler, comicconnect.com, Courtesy of Universal Studios Licensing LLC, © 1931 Universal Pictures Company, Inc.