Frankenstein is a near-perfect text for teaching AI literacy alongside close reading. The novel is about the moral stakes of creation without understanding — a theme that turns out to have uses beyond its century. Here is a practical walkthrough of teaching it with an AI tutor available to students, without letting the AI do the reading.
The approach assumes students are reading in the Textopian reader, with Ask Johnny scoped to the passage they are on. It draws on the broader framework in AI Literacy for Readers.
The four opening letters are often skipped in class. Don't. They set up the nested narrative and — critically — they let you teach "who is telling this story?" before introducing Victor.