Finishing Act One

April 27, 2018

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2
Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.

EQ: Determine a central idea of The Crucible and analyze its development over the course of the text.

Starter: 

Vocabulary: 

Word: Summary

Part of Speech: Noun

Dictionary Definition:a brief statement or account of the main points of something.

Your Definition:

Activity: Create a summary of the reading from yesterday.

Activity: 

1.  Finishing Act One

Characters

Narrator

Hale

Parris

Giles

Proctor

Putnam

Abigail

Tituba

Mrs. Putnam

Betty

Discussion

Analyze Hale's viewpoint on witchcraft.

Analyze the commentary made in regards to the Devil and politics.

What connections can be made between these ideas and todays society?

Connect the big idea to the play based on act one.

2.  Storyboard

Individually, create a comic summarizing the key events in act one.

You may create this using storyboardthat or on a sheet of paper. 

Your comic must be six cells long and needs to include dialogue or captions to articulate events. 

Finally, answer the questions: 

What is the main idea of act one?

What does Arthur Miller say about ideas over the course of the text?

3.  Gallery Walk

We will have a gallery walk to observe each other's comics.

For at least FIVE people provide a plus or delta for feedback.  

Closure:

Predict what will happen in act two.