This is a unit that has been incredibly successful in teaching literary nonfiction; the overarching question is Frankenstein: Freak or Friend? Students think about current technologies that appear in such non-fiction selections as excerpts from The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, clips from Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man and Morgan Spurlock’s Supersize Me, “Woodsong” by Gary Paulsen, an excerpt from Jill Krementz’ “How It Feels When Your Parents’ Divorce,” and a culminating writing activity t