Big Skills

Big Questions

ANALYZING TEXTUAL DEVELOPMENT (of Literature)

• I can analyze, with support, how an author’s structural choices contribute to a text’s overall meaning.
• I can explain how specific ideas and events interact and develop over the course of the text.

• How does a society balance collective security and individual freedoms?

Notes and Other Resources You'll Probably Ignore

The Crucible movie files
Password to access movie files is mrrestad

• Act 1 movie
• Act 2 movie
• Act 3 movie
• Act 4 movie


• Film Study Terms
  • Framing
  • Camera Movement

Text and Audio Files

• pdf file
• Act 1 Audio 
• Act 2 Audio
• Act 3 Audio
• Act 4 Audio

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Assessment Scale

Main Ideas
4 - student demonstrates advanced understanding

•  I can determine and write precise and concise summaries of themes or central ideas (both explicit and inferred) of a text 

3 - target goal

• I can determine and describe main ideas through explicit summary and inferential understanding.​

2 - Student demonstrates knowledge of concepts.
I can...

• I can accurately summarize and describe the main idea of a portion of a text

Score 1 - Student demonstrates progress towards skills.

• I can identify explicit main ideas

Score 0 - No evidence submitted

• I have not providence enough evidence to assess​

Structural Elements
4 -   student demonstrates advanced understanding

• I can identify structural elements (characters, setting, plot, theme, ideas, tone) interact over the course of the text and can analyze how these contribute to a text’s overall meaning, supporting and explaining my ideas with explicit evidence.

3 - target goal

• I can identify and analyze structural elements (characters, setting, plot, theme, ideas, tone) and explain how these contribute to a text’s overall meaning, supporting and explaining my ideas with textual evidence.

2 - Student demonstrates knowledge of concepts.

• I can identify and describe structural elements (characters, setting, plot, theme, tone).

Score 1 - Student demonstrates progress towards skills.

• I can identify structural elements – characters, setting, plot, theme, tone​

Score 0 - No evidence submitted

• I have not providence enough evidence to assess​

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Assignments

Classwork

• "Half-Hanged Mary" (GC)
• Salem Witch Trials Background (GC)
• Crucible Character Map 
• Act 2 Cause/Effect Chart (physical copy done in class.)
• Act 3 Character Motivation Chart

​Exams and Projects

• Crucible test review
  • Crucible Final Test Answers
• Film Analysis Presentation

Unused assignments and Film Study

• ​Forming Opinions - The Crucible (GC)
• Crucible Act 1 Assessment - Framing (GC)
• Crucible Act 2 Assessment - Camera Movement (GC)
• Crucible Act 3 Assessment - Transitions  (GC)

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Red Scare Exhibits

As a group you will be asked to respond to the following prompts:

1. Evaluate the effect the Red Scare and McCarthyism had on American society.
2. Explain the historical and social conditions that led to the rise of McCarthyism and the Red Scare.

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To prepare to answer these questions, you will be assigned an exhibit to learn about. For each item in your exhibit, watch or read it and take notes. For primary sources, use this source analysis document for written or video sources

A - The Red Scare and the Cold War

1. The Red Scare (article)
2. Crash Course - The Cold War (video)
3. "Why I wrote the Crucible" (Written Primary Source)

C - Joseph McCarthy & McCarthyism

1. Joseph McCarthy (article)
2. McCarthyism (video)
3. McCarthy Speech (Written Primary Source)

B - HUAC

1. HUAC (article)
2. Sound Smart: HUAC (video)
3. Testimony of Paul Robeson (Written Primary Source)

D - Blacklisting and Hollywood

1. The Hollywood Ten (article)
2. What is the Hollywood Blacklist? (video)
3. Murrow on McCarthy (Video Primary Source)

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