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=Dracula Discussion - Chapters 25-27= By. Jennifer Nam, Lisa Ahn, Bo Kang

The class will each take out a piece of paper and will draw a 4x4 chart (16 spaces). The discussion leaders will call out 16 answers and each person will write them down on the chart in any locations. The game will start by us reading the questions and the class marking the right answers on their chart. The person who gets a bingo will get a prize. If there is time left, we will play a second round.
 * Activity**: BINGO!

Factual Questions:

1. What means of transportation do the characters utilize to go to Galatz? (LA) 2. How does Jonathan Harker, Seward, Van Helsing, etc purity Count Dracula’s place? (LA) 3. After Van Helsing leaves, how does mina go to sleep? (BK) 4. What is the weather like in chapter 27 and what does this mean? (BK) 5. What does mina see at the end of the book? (BK) 6. What pledge does Mina asks the members to promise? (JN) 7. What do Mina and Van Helsing encounter while traveling to east? (JN) 8. What does Mina and Jonathan both see on their separate journey? (JN) 9. Who is Petrof Skinsky? (BK)


 * Interpretive Questions:**

1. Does Mina’s behaviors in this section demonstrate the behaviors of an ideal Victorian women? Explain why or why not. (LA) 2. Do you think what Jonathan Harker and his crew did to solve this crisis is “right”? (Right as in morally correct?) (LA) 3. Why did Mina’s health worsen? (BK) 4. Dracula transforms into variety of forms (ex. dog, bat etc.). What do each transformation represent? (JN)


 * Evaluative Questions:**

1. Van Helsing acts as a key character throughout the whole novel by understanding and accurately analyzing Dracula’s behaviors. How might the story be different without Van Helsing? (LA) 2. What is the significance of Communion wafers? (BK)34. Out of all the women in the novel why did Dracula choose Mina and Lucy as his victims? (JN)


 * Others:**

1. Compare this section of Dracula to Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Macbeth. (Lisa) 2. After finishing the novel, which is more powerful: science or supernatural? (JN) 3. If you are in Jonathan Harker’s situation, how would you act if someone you love was about to turn into a vampire? (JN)