American Literature

Engaging students in literature, writing, and conversation

“Vengeance is walking Salem…” January 28, 2009

Filed under: Uncategorized — msyork @ 6:22 pm

Monday: Journal – “Fall in love at least three times a day.” - Matthew Fox   What have you fallen in love with?  What will you fall in love with?  What feeling does this give?  etc.   Reading of Act Two – getting to know the characters and themes; Cruelty vs. Morality handout started in class

HW: Finish “Cruelty vs. Morality” sheet

Tuesday:  Journal;  Watch first half of The Crucible movie to review first half of play; go over “Cruelty vs. Morality”

HW: Take-home quiz (open book) over Act II

Wednesday: Journal; collect take-home quiz; Predictive Reading Activity; read first part of Act III; overview of McCarthyism/Red Scare and how this is an ALLEGORY to The Crucible; handout on Miller and McCarthyism

HW: Read “What Was McCarthyism” and answer 9 questions

Advertisement
 

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s

 
Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.