Daniel Tkach

This bundle is a film guide that helps students analyze characterization, theme, and film-to-text adaptations in Guillermo del Toro's film Frankenstein that came out on Netflix in 2025. It's appropriate for a class on British Literature, Gothic Literature, units about Frankenstein the novel, media literacy, film as literature units, AP Literature, or upper secondary English classes. The film is available to stream for free on Netflix (not included). The film is wonderful, and if you found th

This is a stations lesson for one 45-minute class period in which students spend a few minutes at each of the 8 images, analyzing how images of Frankenstein (or rather, Victor Frankenstein's creature) have changed over time. I've also included some historical images (ex, woodcuts of dissections during the 1700 and 1800s) to help students understand the context in which Mary Shelley wrote her novel, and some extra images in case you need to expand the stations. This resource is appropriate for a

This is the most common verbs that can be used to synthesize sources together, especially nonfiction informational or argumentative texts. It contains two parts: 1. A 24 x 36 inch poster of the most common synthesis verbs with sample sentences and visual icon. This makes a great classroom poster to support academic language. TPT doesn't support Google Drawings, so it's a pdf. But if you'd like the original Google Drawing to tweak the sentences, the verbs, or other content, just message me. 2.

This is a poster with four steps for analysis at different "levels" of a text. It is good for a middle or high school ELA/English classroom to help students visualize how you "zoom into" word-level analysis with a microscope, and then "zoom out" with a magnifying glass to think about characters/passages, a camera to think about the whole text and its themes, and ultimately a satellite to think about how one text speaks to the same topics of another. There is a short explanation and sample at eac