Wednesday December 16th

Due in class:   You should have read all of Frankenstein by now. There is a final test on this day.

In-Class: Final test on Frankenstein.

Assignments: In your Prentice-Hall textbook, read pages 683-693 about the history of the Victorian Age. There will be a test on this information on the Monday we return from break.

Links: The Victorian Era

         All the Victorian Literature you can possibly stand

         Norton's Anthology: Victorian Age

Additional Information: The Victorian age is known as somewhat of the snobbiest of all times. Conditions were poor for labor workers, and there was lack of middle class. It was during this time that the British headed overseas to take precious resources from Africa to Bermuda, often conquering new lands and making them a part of the "British Empire". To this day, clear evidence can be seen regarding Britain's effect on other countries. Look at different currencies throughout the world: the Australian dollar, the Canadian pound, New Zealand's guinea, etc., etc., they STILL have the queen or current monarch on the front of their money. To this day, the effect of the Victorian age are still prevalent throughout the whole world. 

Background Information:  Victorian literature. .In this age before TV's, computers, and Nintendo, the most common form of entertainment was reading aloud (parents of the video age take note!). Writers like Dickens, Tennyson, and Trolloppe were widely read and discussed. The advent of universal compulsory education after 1870 meant that there was now a much larger audience for literature. Disraeli himself, when he wasn't locking horns with Gladstone, was a very popular novelist.

Charles Dickens