Monday: Because we completed Act I Friday, we watch Act I today and begin reading Act II
Tuesday: After reading articles relevant to the culture and issues thematically portrayed in The Crucible, we will spend time identifying theme-relevant and character rhetoric quotes in Act II and tracking those on this organizer. (It's the same one as before; it's just here in case SOME of us MISPLACED it.)
FOR HOMEWORK: Access this link and write a question that could be answered in a persuasive letter linking your article to the play. See the chart below for examples. Put your name beside it.
Wednesday & Thursday: In lab 706, we will compose persuasive letters. Each student's letter will create and craft an argument relevant to something they read in the article and the play. We will discuss ideas for this in class, but some examples are listed below the letter requirements:
Letter requirements:
- A strong persuasive stance supported by a LABELED thesis, ethos paragraph, logos paragraph, and pathos paragraph
- At least one CITED quote from the play
- At least one CITED quote from the article
- Works Cited section with BOTH sources listed <-- Google Docs has an EasyBib add-on that makes this SUPER easy to do
- At least five vocabulary words
Friday and next week: I have to be out today, so you will work in small groups to read Act III of The Crucible and complete this storyboard assignment detailing your understanding of the action in Act III.
Next week, we should complete the play and begin our final assessment for this unit: your choice of a persuasive essay defending an exonerated client of the Innocence Project and arguing that witch hunts either do or do not still happen in American society OR - if you choose to do so and have earned an 80 or above on the persuasive letter blog post - you can choose to write a modern witch hunt story or script, then film it :). More on this later.