November 9-13

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
1. dramatic exposition -- prose commentaries to provide background information about the characters and their world
2. page 3
3. page 1
4. page 5
5. page 6 - left side
6. page 7 - right side
7. page 8
8. page 10
9. pages 11-13
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11. page 13
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• 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 "Why I Wrote the Crucible" for Monday
• Notes on the definition of crucible, allegory, irony and tragedy

UPCOMING

• Dates for 12-week extra credit opportunity, more details on extra credit page here -- POSTPONED ONE WEEK
• Assignment and permission form distributed on Tuesday October 12; PDF of play posted to blog.
• Parent notification and permission form returned by Wednesday November 4th
• Extra credit help session, after school in room 303 on Thursday November 5th
• 10 complete dialectical journals submitted to Turnitin.com by 10 pm on Monday November 9th
• Reading or writing assessment during X-Block on Wednesday November 11th.
  If students cannot attend the assessment on the 11th, they must make alternate arrangements with their teacher by Monday November 9th.
• Thursday November 19: Crucible Unit Test
• Friday November 20: Need a copy of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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