November 16-20

RECENT DOCUMENTS

• The Crucible Materials
• PDF of the play
• Audio of the play -- it skips a few lines here and there, but try to pause and find the place
• Act II begins with file 1-09
• Act IV begins with file 2-08
  (note that the audio skips some dialogue at the beginning of the act)
• Act III begins with file 2-01
  (note that the audio skips some dialogue at the beginning of the act)
• What Really Happened in Salem/Who's Who
• Characterization Chart
• Characterization Definitions, Groupwork Directions, and Discussion Questions
• Act I and II reading questions -- Due at the beginning of class on Tuesday 11/10
  Use these page numbers to adjust question numbers if you read from the PDF 
• ACT I -- see last week's post for page numbers
• ACT II -- read the whole act, pages 20-33
• ACT III -- read the whole act, pages 34-49
• ACT IV -- view the act, refer to pages 49-59
• Act III reading questions -- Due at the beginning of class on Monday 11/16
• Background on McCarthyism and essays  ("Why I Wrote the Crucible" by Arthur Miller" and "The Trial of Arthur Miller" by John Steinbeck) -- read and annotate Miller's "Why I Wrote the Crucible" for Monday; read Steinbeck's "The Trial of Arthur Miller" for Tuesday
• Notes on the definition of crucible, allegory, irony and tragedy
• Study Guide
• Optional Plot Questions for Act IV

UPCOMING

• Thursday November 19: Crucible Unit Test
• Friday November 20: Need a copy of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Happy Thanksgiving!

COURSE CALENDAR -- full view with working links on GOOGLE DOCS  (click here)