Monday, September 1, 2014

CR Connections

September 2, 2014
 
E.Q: What are the significant events in Act Three?
How does The Crucible relate to the Civil Rights movement?
Obj: I can summarize an act in The Crucible.
I can make connections.

Starter:
Listen to American Skin by Bruce Springsteen
 
*This song was written in 1999.  
 
Choose ONE question to respond to:
 
1.  What is your interpretation of the song?

2.  How do you connect this song to real life situations?
 
 
Vocabulary:
Contention-  something (such as a belief, opinion, or idea) that is argued or stated
Argument
Contention make him weep sir.
  When might you speak with contention?

Gibbet-a structure on which a criminal who has been sentenced to death is killed by being hanged
Gallows
Let Rebecca stand upon the gibbet and send up some righteous prayer.
What may be a modern day gibbet?
 
Beguile-to trick or deceive (someone)   
 Now hear me, and beguile yourselves no more.
How might you beguile someone?
 
Reprieve-1: to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a prisoner who is sentenced to death)
2: to prevent (something) from being closed, destroyed, etc., for a period of time
Postpone
Reprieve or pardon must cast doubt upon the guilt of them that died til now.
Do you think there will be a reprieve for the prisoners?
 
Voices
Jazz Hands
Round of Applause
Dirt Off Your Shoulder    
 
Activity:
 
1.  Graphic Organizing Continued
With your tables, you will finish your spider map of act three.
I will give you about 10 minutes.
Your "central topic" will be Act Three.
 Requirements:
7 Ideas
3 Sub Ideas off each Idea
Colorful
Organized
Show where other Sub Ideas connect.
2.  Making Connections
Civil Rights Movement
Choose ONE of the two topics to read about.
In a TPEQEA paragraph answer the question:
How were these events A RESULT of fear?
If you do not finish this in class, finish for homework. 
 
 3.  Begin Act Four

Narrator 
Herrick
Sarah Good
Tituba
Hopkins
Danforth
Hathorne
Cheever
Parris
Hale

Closure:
How do you predict the play will end?

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