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E11 AGENDA 12/3-20- The Crucible Theater

  1. Prepare for Reader’s Theater. Performances are on Monday, December 18.
    You and a team will act out a SCENE from The Crucible.  Below are the requirements for your scene:

    • Keep the time to about 10-15 minutes max
    • Use PROPS and COSTUMES to create the scene. Your PROPS and COSTUMES do not need to be elaborate, but they should clearly define each CHARACTER, ACTION, and SETTING.
    • Each team member must memorize his/her lines. You may NOT read aloud from the SCRIPT.
    • The ACTORS in your SCENE must move during the play. This means body movement as well as walking and doing things as acting is occurring.
    • ACTORS must have clear DICTION—no mumbling, whispering or unintelligible speaking.
  2. Fill out Reader’s Theater worksheet
  3. Reader’s theater scripts
    1. readers theater act 1
    2. readers theater act 3

Homework

  • Work with your Reader’s Theater team.  Memorize your lines, prepare props, costumes, etc.
  • Writing Section: After presenting, write on paragraph discussing your experience acting out a scene from The Crucible.  How was it different from reading?  Did acting give you a deeper understanding of the action?  Explain.

E11 AGENDA 12/11 – The Crucible Theater

  1. Discuss Reader’s Theater assignment requirements.  Performances are on Monday, December 18.
    You and a team will act out a SCENE from The Crucible.  Below are the requirements for your scene:

    • Keep the time to about 10-15 minutes max
    • Use PROPS and COSTUMES to create the scene. Your PROPS and COSTUMES do not need to be elaborate, but they should clearly define each CHARACTER, ACTION, and SETTING.
    • Each team member must memorize his/her lines. You may NOT read aloud from the SCRIPT.
    • The ACTORS in your SCENE must move during the play. This means body movement as well as walking and doing things as acting is occurring.
    • ACTORS must have clear DICTION—no mumbling, whispering or unintelligible speaking.
  2. Fill out Reader’s Theater worksheet
  3. Reader’s theater scripts
    1. readers theater act 1
    2. readers theater act 3

Homework

  • Finish  Reader’s Theater worksheet
  • Begin working with your Reader’s Theater team.  Memorize your lines, prepare props, costumes, etc.

E11 AGENDA 12/05-07 – The Crucible Movie

  1. Watch The Crucible Movie
  2. Work on The_Crucible_-_Movie_Questions

Homework

E11 AGENDA 12/04 – The Crucible – The End

  1. Discuss Witch Tests
  2. Read Arthur Miller – The Crucible

Homework

  • In the WRITING section of your binder, summarize each class’s reading AND REACT to it (did you like it?  What will happen next?)- one paragraph
    • 11/15 – Start of Act II
    • 11/16 – Middle of Act II
    • 11/17 – End of Act II
    • 11/21 – Motivations of Tituba, Mary Warren, Abigail, Proctor, Hale
    • 11/22 – Act III to page 85, ONE PAGE
    • 11/27 – End of Act III
    • 11/29 – Start of Act IV
    • 12/01 – Middle of Act IV
    • 12/04 – Finish Anticipation Guide Worksheet, Choose a statement for which your opinions shifted and write about it.  If none of your opinions changed, discuss why.  One paragraph minimum
    • 12/04 – React to the end of the Crucible, one paragraph
  • Work on Crucible worksheets.
  • Vocabulary for the week: Complete The Crucible Vocabulary according to the act we are currently reading.

E11 AGENDA 12/01 – The Crucible – Sunrise

  1. Discuss Conversion Disorder and other possible medical causes for the events of 1692 in Salem
  2. Read Arthur Miller – The Crucible
  3. Discuss Witch Tests

Homework. 

E11 AGENDA 11/30 – The Mystery of Salem

  1. Work on  The Crucible Grammar Worksheets
  2. Read this article about possible medical causes for the mysterious affliction in Salem, 1692
  3. Read this article about Conversion Disorder and Mass Hysteria a psychological phenomenon that some psychologists think is linked to the events of Salem 1692.
  4. Watch

Homework. 

  • Work on  The Crucible Grammar Worksheets
  • In the WRITING section of your binder, write AT LEAST one paragraph discussing your views on the events of Salem, 1692.  Was it mysterious illness?  A psychological disorder?  Greed?  The devil?  What might have caused the girls to act the way they did?
  • In the WRITING section of your binder, summarize each class’s reading AND REACT to it (did you like it?  What will happen next?)- one paragraph
    • 11/15 – Start of Act II
    • 11/16 – Middle of Act II
    • 11/17 – End of Act II
    • 11/21 – Motivations of Tituba, Mary Warren, Abigail, Proctor, Hale
    • 11/22 – Act III to page 85, ONE PAGE
    • 11/27 – End of Act III
    • 11/29 – Start of Act IV
  • Work on Crucible worksheets.
  • Vocabulary for the week: Complete The Crucible Vocabulary according to the act we are currently reading.

E11 AGENDA 11/29 – The Crucible

  1. Read Arthur Miller’s – The Crucible Act III

Homework. 

E11 AGENDA 11/28 – The Crucible

  1. Review action in Arthur Miller’s – The Crucible Act III
  2. Review methods of Characterization
  3. Fill out  Crucible Elements of Drama Analysis Worksheet

Homework. 

E11 AGENDA 11/22 – The Crucible

  1. Read Arthur Miller’s – The Crucible in class out loud.
  2. In the WRITING section of your binder: For each day of reading, write one paragraph summarizing the action and reacting to it.  See homework below for details

ework. 

  • No Grammar this week
  • Read Act III to page 85 (PROCTOR, his voice about to break…)
  • In the WRITING section of your binder, summarize each class’s reading AND REACT to it (did you like it?  What will happen next?)- one paragraph
    • 11/15 (Start of Act II)
    • 11/16 (Middle of Act II)
    • 11/17 (end of Act II)
    • 11/21 – Motivations of Tituba, Mary Warren, Abigail, Proctor, Hale
    • 11/22 – Act III to page 85, ONE PAGE
  • Work on Crucible worksheets.
  • Vocabulary for the week: Complete The Crucible Vocabulary according to the act we are currently reading.