Frankenstein Study Guide -- My REVIEW

Disclosure: I received this complimentary product through the Homeschool Review Crew    

Literature can be such an enjoyable subject for the homeschooler! Learning to read and enjoy different works is an adventure and an exploration that often takes the student (and maybe the homeschooling parent!) out of their comfort zones. Progeny Press has created study guides for different works of literature-the one I received to review is the Frankenstein Study Guide and it is a great help for the student wishing to understand the book more fully. 

This Frankenstein study that I got to review is a .pdf study guide--easy to use, and fillable and save-able! It opens easily in the Adobe reader and is very self-explanatory as far as use goes.

There is a nice clickable table of contents so that you do not need to scroll through the entire guide to get to the section that you are working on. This is something that shows the creators are interested in making this very easy to use.

The study guide, itself, is mostly for the student to use. There is a section at the beginning to introduce the instructors to the material, which is nice. The study guide is intended to be used for 8-10 weeks, or for 1/4 high school literature credit (it's nice that they let you know this!)

The book, itself, is not included with the study guide. It is recommended that students read through the book quickly in the first week, and there are several activities which they can do to prep them for reading and understanding the book.

The study guide, then, takes the student through the sections of the book, a few chapters per week. Some of the exercises are learning the vocabulary (through a variety of methods--keeps it interesting for the student!), answering questions about the actual story, as well as answering thought/analysis questions. This is agreat combination of allowing the student to understand the actual language, comprehend the story, and process the action or narrative through thinking more deeply about it.

Most of the activities and questions have a fillable section where the student can type their responses right into the document and save them on their computer. Of course, if you are a person who would prefer to print them out, that is always an option--and the student can then write their answers on the pages. There are a couple of things that need to be printed out to complete (I like the idea of this diagram-less crossword puzzle!) but most of it can be done on the computer. 

In the introductory materials, the student is given a list of things they will need for this study guide, including a dictionary (which they will use a lot in the vocabulary sections!) and a Bible. 

In the "Digging Deeper" section, students are asked to really process the idea of a theme, find examples of it in the Bible, and find examples of it in current events--then wrap those ideas together. 

The Frankenstein Study Guide by Progeny Press gives students a great opportunity to not only read this classic piece of literature, but also to understand it--its context, its themes, its language, its relevancy, and more. The authors of this study guide have crafted an easy-to-use product that students will find manageable. I definitely recommend this product!

Progeny Press has created many study guides, and some members of the Review Crew had reviewed some of these as well--check out their reviews by clicking on the link below: