The Crucible, Act IV

Good Morning!

Please get your assigned netbooks when you arrive.  While your netbook is powering up, please have your independent reading book out and read quietly.  I will be checking to see what you have selected for reading.

Please copy to the following in your ENGLISH JOURNAL (response to Act III in the movie and questions to Act IV). Before we resume reading please write a paragraph in response to the movie:

Response to Act III  (Movie Version)

 The Crucible, Act IV 

1.  What is the relationship between the rebellion in Andover and the flight of Abigail and Mercy Lewis?

2.  Why is Rev. Parris upset?

3.  Why is it important for the court to get one of the accused "respectable citizens" (such as John Proctor or Rebecca Nurse) to confess?

4.  Why is Rev. Hale telling the accused to lie? Explain and QUOTE A LINE.

5.  What does the court want Elizabeth Proctor to do and why?

6.   How did Giles Corey die?

7.  Why is Proctor calling himself a fraud?

8.  What responsibility does Elizabeth accept for Proctor's lechery? QUOTE A LINE.

9.  What does Elizabeth advise John to do?

10. After Proctor confesses to witchcraft, what else does Danforth want from Proctor?

11. What has John Proctor achieved at the end of the play?

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