The activities in a curriculum guide to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein provide readers with an opportunity to explore various concepts in depth. First, groups research controversial scientists, examine their work, and decide whether or not, in their opinion, the scientist went too far. Next, readers analyze Mary Shelley's style and rewrite a scene from Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in Shelley's style. Another lesson has class members research the Prometheus myth to determine why Shelley subtitled her novel "Modern Prometheus." Scholars also investigate the Gothic elements in the novel and then create a portrait of a modern monster. The activities focus attention on the moral and ethical questions at the heart of the tale.