The Crucible, Act I

Good Morning!

Please get your netbooks when you arrive and quietly read while they are powering up.

We will finish reading Act I today, and you will have the rest of the period to complete the questions on Act I in your ENGLISH JOURNAL.  Be sure to format your work in your journal so it will be easy for me to review.  Select a different color text for your answers.  I have not said anything about that yet, but I think it's a great idea after seeing one student's work that highlighted answers in a different text color. 

HOMEWORK:  Please work on your independent reading with an eye towards completing two book reviews by Oct 11th.  Refer to the sample book reviews under "Important Links."

The Crucible, Act I

Good Morning!  

I hope that you had a great weekend! 

Please get your assigned netbook when you arrive to class and read your independent reading book as the netbook powers up. 

Before we continue reading The Crucible, please copy the following questions into your ENGLISH JOURNAL:

11.   What is a key characteristic of Rev. Hale according to what is described about him?

12.   Of what does Abigail accuse Tituba and why has Abigail turned on her?

13.   Why does Tituba confess that the devil came to her and asked her to work for him?

14.   Why does Tituba come up with the names of Goody Good and Goody Osburn
         as the two women that she saw consorting with the devil?

15.  In your opinion, what motivates Abby's confession at the end of Act I?

HOMEWORK:  Please work on your independent reading with an eye towards completing two book reviews by Oct 11th.  Please return the book that you might have checked out from this class and cross out your name.

  

The Crucible, Act I

Good Morning!

Please get your netbook when you arrive and quietly read your independent reading book while the netbook powers up. We will begin reading right away and respond to the reading in the last part of class.

After reading today, please go to my blog and copy the following questions into your ENGLISH JOURNAL. Please complete the assignment before the end of class today.

ACT I of The Crucible (cont)

5.   What motivation does Miller attribute to Thomas Putnam's actions?
6.   What do we learn from the conversation when Mercy, Abigail, and Mary Warren are alone AND 
      what is Abigail's warning?
7.   Why does John Proctor feel that he is a fraud?
8.   Why does Rebecca Nurse believe that Mr. Hale should be sent home?
9.   What are John Proctor's complaints about Rev. Parris?
10.  What line caught your attention?  


HOMEWORK:  Please work on your independent reading with an eye towards completing TWO book reviews on GOODREADS.
 Look at the book review rubric and sample book reviews under my "Important Links."

The Crucible, Act I

Good morning!

Please get your assigned netbook and while it is powering up please read your independent reading book.

*  Please copy the following questions into your ENGLISH JOURNAL and complete before we resume the play:

 (Create some space between each question and provide your answer after each question).

1.  Who is Betty and what is wrong with her?

2.  Abigail is described as "a strikingly beautiful girl . . . 

     with an endless capacity for dissembling."  What 

     does this mean?

3.  What hint does Rev. Parris make about Abigail's 

      character?  (Quote the line -- top of p.12)

4. Why does Rev. Parris become so upset at the thought 

      that Betty's illness is a result of unnatural causes? 

HOMEWORK:  Please read your independent reading book with an eye towards completing two book reviews on GOODREADS by Oct 11th.

 

The Crucible, Act I

Good Morning!

Let's begin class with a little bit of independent reading.  Thank you for using this time for reading. Reminder:  Two book reviews are to be posted by Oct 11 on Goodreads.

* The Crucible, "An Overture" and the beginning of Act I. I will collect the completed handout.  NOTE:  For extra credit points, please volunteer to read a part.  

HOMEWORK: Please read your independent reading book.  You should be done with your first book and you should be working on the first book review.  Make sure that you make me a friend on GOODREADS  (abaltrushes@gmail.com)

 

The Crucible, "An Overture"

Good Morning!

Let's begin class with a little bit of reading in our independent reading books.  That's been interrupted the last few days.  Reminder: two book reviews are due by Oct 11.  Before that time I will review how to write the reviews on Goodreads.

* Background to The Crucible (handout)

* The Crucible -- "An Overture" (handout).  We will read this part in class because Arthur Miller explains so many things essential to grasping the history of the time and the events in this play.

HOMEWORK:  Please read your independent reading book with an eye towards writing your reviews.  You should be on your second book by now.  Please return your book checked out from this class if you have finished reading it and cross your name off the list for that book.

 

Checking out The Crucible

Good morning!  I hope that you had a really enjoyable weekend!

1.  At the beginning of the period we will go to the library to check out The Crucible.  Make sure that you have your ID with you.  When we return to class, you will take a multiple choice quiz on the research topics that were presented on Friday. 

2.  Homework Review -- I asked you to do some reading in your text over the weekend and to complete a handout  on the reading.

3.  Some more background information on the Puritan era -- a handout for your review.   

4.  HOMEWORK:  Read "An Overture" to Act One of The Crucible and carefully complete the questions.  There is much to understand in this reading!