The Crucible Reflection - Due Tues., Oct. 1

The Crucible

Reflection

We have worked a lot in class to understand the current events that inspired Arthur Miller to write The Crucible in the early 1950s. We have also discuss the issue of how America has “grown up” with a puritan legacy: every once in a while, one group (or individual, in the case of Joe McCarthy) decides that it has a monopoly on “the good” or “the right path,” and demonizes all those who may not follow that path.

In a thoughtful two-page essay, please reflect on the meaning you take from The Crucible. What issues do you think Arthur Miller is trying to expose? Are they uniquely American issues, more global, human issues, or both? Finally, do you think that The Crucible is still a relevant play to watch today? Why or why not?

600 words, approximately. Double spaced. 

SEPT-OCT SYLLABUS

AMERICAN LIT – OCTOBER 2013

MON., SEPT. 30       Finish play and discuss

                                    Vocab Quiz

                                    WRITING UNIT II: The analytical essay

                                    The difference between observation and idea

                                    Hand out Roots 1 list

TUES., OCT. 1          Crucible reflection due

WED., OCT. 2           Developing the thesis 

                                    Back to school night!              

FRI., OCT. 4              Roots 1 quiz

                                    Body paragraphs, transitional topic sentences

                                    Midterm comments due

MON., OCT. 7          Hand out Roots 2 list

                                    THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

                                    Intros and Conclusions

TUES., OCT. 8          “The Declaration of Independence,” Thomas Jefferson

                                    Excerpt from Memoirs of a Revolutionary War Soldier

WED., OCT. 9           Excerpt from The Midwife’s Revolt

                                    What were the roles of women during the Revolution? What were                                         the conditions like?

                                    Setting up quotations

FRI., OCT. 11             Roots 2 quiz

                                    Famous Quotations

John & Abigail Adams letters

MON., OCT. 14        Columbus Day         

                                   

TUES., OCT. 15        Finish Group Crucible Paper and discuss

Hand out Roots 3 list

WED., OCT. 16         In-class essay on the Revolution. What were the values that the                                        Revolution espoused, based on the literature you have read?                                                             How do those values differ from Puritan values?

                                   

THURS., OCT. 17     SALEM FIELD TRIP!

FRI., OCT. 18            Discuss essays

                                    AMERICAN GOTHIC AND ROMANTICISM – Power point

                                    Longfellow poems

                                    Roots 3 quiz

MON., OCT. 21        Edgar Allen Poe and the birth of the modern short story

                                    “The Single Effect”

                                    “The Masque of the Red Death”

                                    “The Tell-Tale Heart”

TUES., OCT. 22        “The Fall of the House of Usher

WED., OCT. 23         Nathaniel Hawthorne – “Young Goodman Brown”

FRI., OCT. 25            “Rappaccini’s Daughter”

Roots 4 quiz

MON., OCT. 28        In-class essay on Poe and Hawthorne

                                    Idea for short story due

                                    Hand out Roots 5 list

                                   

Tues., OCT. 29          Discuss in-class essay

                                    Outside Reading Presentations

Wed., OCT. 30           Outside Reading Presentations