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about the series
eight workshops
ten novels
ten authors

the teachers

Milton Brasher-Cunningham
Frankenstein

Donna Denizé
Great Expectations

Dirk Detlefsen
Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone

Sharon Madison
Ceremony

Pauline Moller
Bridge to Terabithia

Frazier O'Leary
A Lesson Before Dying
Song of Solomon

Ashby Reid
Flowers for Algernon

Diana Russell
To Kill a Mockingbird

Betty Williams
Things Fall Apart

 
the project

MILTON BRASHER-CUNNINGHAM

Related Topics: Frankenstein | Mary Shelley

Milton Brasher-Cunningham has Master's degrees in English and theology, and he taught English for seven years in the Boston Public Schools. He currently teaches ninth grade English, tenth grade English (a combination expository writing laboratory and American literature course), and Honors British Literature (for juniors) at Winchester High School, Winchester, Massachusetts. He is also both a songwriter and a fiction writer.
Lesson Plan for Frankenstein

OBJECTIVE:

To bring the old horror story into the present

ACTIVITY/PLAN:

  1. Take students on a field trip to a laboratory investigating synthetic intelligence or some related field, or bring in a guest speaker on the subject.

  2. Assign students working individually, in pairs, or in small groups to construct their own creature/robot/monster/automaton/machine, and to report their design to the class for questions.
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