Pocket Folder Requirements: The Crucible by Arthur Miller



Requirements: The Crucible by Arthur Miller

English 11: Honors/Advanced CP

• For this novel, you will complete the following requirements:

✓ Period Notes and History/Literature Connection

1. You will receive an organizer for you to take notes on the literary period and historical connections

✓ Vocabulary Study

1. Develop a Glossary of literary terms and concepts particular to the novel. Each entry must contain a definition of the term/concept and a cross-reference to one in-text example.

- Glossary sections should include: Literary elements, literary devices,

concepts, and witchcraft.

- Resources for Glossary entries include: Word list, class lecture notes , personal readings of text; dictionaries, class textbooks

2. Create a short writing piece using examples of 3 different literary devices and 1 concept word. Your writing can take the form of a letter, dialogue, poetry, or a very short story.

✓ Response Journal

1. On lined, notebook paper (or typed and printed out if you prefer), you must keep a min. of 1 entry per Act. You should have a minimum of one page, in essay format for each Act. You will respond to prompts that are questions or quotes from each Act. Please pick only ONE—a quote or a question—for each chapter. attached list of possible prompts) *** If you select a quote or question that only requires a short explanation, choose another to meet the 1 page minimum requirement.

2. All entries will be evaluated on content, readability, and legibility. Please use your best grammar, spelling, and punctuation skills—all of these affect readability. Remember to repeat the quote or question in your response.

✓ Quizzes

1. Pop comprehension quizzes

✓ Writing Assignment

1. Students will write a short, original play—with stage directions—in which an individual or group is persecuted in some way.

2. Your play should include all the elements of drama and good historical fiction as discussed in class.

3. Your play will be evaluated based the following FCA’s

a. contains stage directions that help develop characters, setting, plot, tone, point-of-view,

b. contains all the elements of good historical fiction

c. Written in proper, script format with appropriate punctuation

• Assignments will be evaluated upon completion of the play. Please don’t fall behind in your assignments; quizzes will be given frequently to make sure you are keeping pace with the readings and assignments.

The Crucible: Resources

Word-List

1. Concepts

- Theocracy

- Democracy

- Autocracy

- Puritanism.

- Tragedy

- Historic Fiction

2. Literary Elements

- Character: Protagonist

- Plot

- Point-of-view

- Voice

- Theme

3. Literary Devices

- Irony

- Paradox

- Allegory

- Figurative Language: metaphor, simile, personification

4. Terms

- Crucible

- Witchcraft and terms associated with witchcraft (see Act1)

Response Journal Topics: Questions and Quotes

Act One

QUESTIONS

• Why does Parris suggest calling in Reverend Hale?

• What does the conversation between Abigail, Mercy Lewis, Mary Warren, and Betty reveal about their recent activities?

• Who is John Proctor? What is his relationship to Mary Warren? What is his relationship to Abigail? How does he feel about his relationship with Abigail?

• What is the Putnams' grievance over land? (p. 32) What significance might this have in the play?

• What do the Puritans think of books other than the Bible? How do you learn about this in Act one?

How and by whom are the other villagers accused of witchcraft? What is the motivation for the girls' accusations?

QUOTATIONS

• "I never knew what pretense Salem was, I never knew what lying lessons I was taught by all these Christian women and their covenanted men!" (Abigail, p. 24) "The psalm! The psalm! She cannot bear to hear the Lord's name! (Mrs. Putnam about Betty, p. 24)

• "I like not the smell of this `authority'." (John Proctor to Rebecca, p. 31)

• "It suggests to the mind what the trouble be among us all these years. Think on it. Wherefore is everybody suing everybody else?" (Giles to assembled group, p. 31)

• "They [his books] must be; they are weighted with authority." (Hale to Parris, p. 36)

• "What victory would the Devil have to win a soul already bad? It is the best the Devil wants, and who is better than the minister?" (Hale to Parris, p. 41)

Act Two

QUESTIONS

• What is the significance of the scene between Elizabeth and John Proctor? What does it reveal about their relationship and about each of their characters?

• What relationship does Hale suggest exists between the church and the court?

• What is the point of the discussion between Hale and the Proctors about whether or not they believe in witches?

• What does Giles report to the Proctors? What is the significance of his revelations?

• What event begins to change Hale's opinion about the arrests? How does he feel about the court?

QUOTATIONS

• "It's God's work we do...I'm – I am an official of the court." (Mary Warren to the Proctors, p. 59)

• "He preach nothin' but golden candlesticks until he had them. I labor the earth from dawn of day to blink of night, and I tell you true, when I look to heaven and see my money glaring at his elbows – it hurt my prayer, sir, it hurt my prayer. I think, sometimes, the man dreams cathedrals, not clapboard meetin' houses." (John to Hale, p. 65)

• "Theology, sir, is a fortress; no crack in a fortress may be accounted small." (Hale to Proctor, p. 67)

• "If Rebecca Nurse be tainted, then nothing's left to stop the whole green world from burning. Let you rest upon the justice of the court; the court will send her home, I know it." (Hale to Francis Nurse, p. 71)

• "Man, remember, until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven." (Hale, p. 71)

• ""Is the accuser always holy now? Were they born this morning as clean as God's fingers? I'll tell you what's walking Salem – vengeance is walking Salem. (John Proctor, p. 77)

Act Three

QUESTIONS

• What is the setting of Act Three?

• How do Proctor, Francis, and Giles plan to use Mary Warren's testimony to prove that "Heaven is NOT speaking through the children"?

• What is the significance of the point made by Danforth that "no uncorrupted man may fear this court"? Is this true? How does this point tie the court and the church together?

• How does Danforth equate the court with the church?

• Why does Elizabeth deny John's relationship with Abigail? What is the result of her denial?

QUOTATIONS

• "Do you know, Mr. Proctor, that the entire contention of the state in these trials is that the voice of Heaven is speaking through the children?" (Danforth, p. 88)

• "A person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road between." (Danforth, p. 94)

• "Then there is a prodigious guilt in the country...there is fear in the country because there is a moving plot to topple Christ in the country!" (Danforth, p. 98)

• "Now, children, this is a court of law. The law, based upon the Bible, and the Bible, writ by Almighty God, forbid the practice of witchcraft, and describe death as the penalty thereof. But likewise, children, the law and Bible damn all bearers of false witness." (Danforth, p. 102)

• "I have made a bell of my honor! I have rung the doom of my good name." (Proctor, p. 111)

• "A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and yours, Danforth! For them that quail to bring men out of ignorance, as I have quailed, and as you quail now when you know in all your black hearts that this be fraud – God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together!" (Proctor, pp. 119-120)

Act Four

QUESTIONS

• What is the significance of the scene between Herrick and the accused witches?

• What are the conditions in Salem? Why?

• Why does Proctor initially say he will confess? Why does he refuse to sign the confession?

• Why does Miller end the play with Proctor's refusal to sign the confession and Elizabeth's refusal to beg him to do so?

• What does the news of what is happening in Andover have to do with the trials in Salem?

QUOTATIONS

• ""Andover have thrown out the court, they say, and will have no part of witchcraft. There be a faction here, feeding on that news, and I tell you true, sir, I fear there will be riot here...these people [the accused witches] have great weight yet in the town....Excellency, I would postpone these hangin's for a time." (Parris, p. 127)

• "Postponement now speaks a floundering on my part; reprieve or pardon must cast doubt upon the guilt of them that died till now. While I speak God's law, I will not crack its voice with whimpering. If retaliation is your fear, know this – I should hang ten thousand that dared to rise against the law." (Danforth, p. 129)

• "Excellency, there are orphans wandering from house to house; abandoned cattle bellow on the highroads, the stink of rotting crops hangs everywhere, and no man knows when the harlot's cry will end his life – and you wonder yet if rebellion's spoke?" (Hale, p. 130)

• "Spite only keeps me silent. It is hard to give a lie to dogs." (Proctor, p. 136)

• "I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it." (Proctor, p. 141)

• "Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave my name! (Proctor explaining why he will not sign a confession, p. 143)

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