Week 4: Crucible-Relevant Analytical Reading & Persuasive Writing
- Shanna Irving
- Jan 23, 2017
- 2 min read
Monday: Explore the historical context and political relevance of The Crucible via this PowerPoint, then begin readers' theater. Keep track of characters' rhetoric and theme relevance via this assignment.
Tuesday & Wednesday: Continue readers' theater and comparing that to the film version. Read articles relevant to the American witch hunt struggle portrayed in The Crucible, and spend time identifying theme-relevant and character rhetoric quotes in Act I, tracking those on this organizer. (It's the same one as before; it's just here in case SOME of us MISPLACED it.)
FOR ON-LEVEL HOMEWORK: Access this Padlet and write a question that could be answered in a persuasive letter linking your article to the metaphorical witch hunt issue in the play. See the chart below for examples. Put your name with it.
FOR HONORS HOMEWORK: Access this Padlet. Write (1) a question connecting the article you read to the witch hunt issue in the play; and (2) a question connecting an article you find online to an American inequality struggle evident in your second summer reading novel.
Thursday & Friday: In lab 706, we will compose persuasive letters (on-level) and synthesized research essays (honors).
FOR ON-LEVEL: 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
FOR HONORS: Goal 1 in the lab is to take my feedback on your first post and revise accordingly. Get that 100! Goal 2 is to begin your second post, connecting the witch hunt issue that your article from class and The Crucible have in common to another struggle with equality as evidenced in your second summer reading book. Remember to fully address each point you make by proving it with textual evidence you discuss in depth. Include ten new words you add to your vocabulary from studying a Memrise list. Put them in bold, and use them correctly. Be sure to cite your research parenthetically as well as on a Works Cited section at the bottom.
LINK TO BIAS CHART: http://www.truthrevolt.org/sites/default/files/images/kP4Yax1.jpg
In the next two weeks, we should complete the play and begin our final assessment for this unit: 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 (on-level) or synthesis paper (honors) blog post - you can choose to write a modern witch hunt story or script, then film it :). More on this later.
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