THE CRUCIBLE and THE LIBERTY CONFERENCE
Please remember to turn in PERMISSION SLIPS for the Liberty Conference by Wednesday.
The questions for Act 2 Part ii are due tomorrow.
As we have been discussion the issues of censorship, privacy, and equal protections, I’d like to focus a bit on the play. We discussed in class that women were [...]
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Please find the questions for Act II scene ii and Act II scene iii. Below, find a student produced video called McCarthyism that describes McCarthyism and The Crucible. It will give you an excellent summary of the events that influenced the play.
THE CRUCIBLE
Today we had no class. Well, I got a lot of class, but you guys didn’t today…
Yesterday, we spent some time talking about the Liberty! Conference and our attending that event on October 6.
We then began our discussion on McCarthyism and The Crucible by looking at a short piece from Wikipedia. You have a paragraph [...]
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You can find today’s handout on the flow of ideas from the Renaissance to John Proctor’s independence at the previous link.
Here is the link to the questions for Scene I Act V.
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The homework for Act I Scene iii will be due tomorrow. You should also start working on Act II Scene iv.
Notes can be found here:
Intro 1
Intro 2
Intro 3
Intro 4
Act 1 1
Act 1 2
Act 1 3
I have really enjoyed the discussion over the last few days (notes found at the end of the Intro notes) [...]
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Today we will finish the introduction to the book. Please write a two paragraph summary of the important background information that the author has given us. A paragraph should be five to seven sentences and should be an organized presentation of what you feel are the most important details presented by the author. It [...]
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Today we began Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, a fictional account of the Salem Witch Trials written for the stage. There will be cloze notes, vocabulary, and comprehension questions for each section of the book. The first can be downloaded in MS Word format at this link. Each of these will be due the day [...]
