Grade 11, Quarter 3, 3-5 Weeks

ELA Unit-at-a-Glance

Morality of the Masses

Module
Sequence / Skills / Resources / Assessment / Instructional
Strategies /
1. Unit introduction
prior to reading The Crucible
This module includes attachments. / Students will be able to:
complete a web quest in order to understand the background for the play, to include puritans, Salem Witch Trials, McCarthyism
(W.8, RI.3) / Electronic Resources and Alternative Media:
http://salem.lib.virginia.edu/home.html
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schooladventures/salemwitchtrials/life/religion.html:
http://www.salemwitchmuseum.com
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schooladventures/salemwitchtrials/
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAmccarthy.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/arthur-miller/mccarthyism/484/
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/mccarthy/mccarthy.htm
Instruction:
Morality Questionnaire
COW or computer lab / Formative Assessment:
Crucible Prep Webquest
Morality Questionnaire
Exit Ticket / Guided internet research skills
Individual work, small group work
1. Character signup
This module includes attachments. / Students will be able to:
identify elements of drama to help students read the play (RL.3) / Extended/Short Texts:
The Crucible, Arthur Miller
Instruction:
Signup sheet
Elements of drama terms
Create test questions with answers for elements of drama / Formative Assessment:
Elements of drama handout
Summative Assessment:
Create and administer quiz / Individual and partner work
2. Who is who is Salem
This module includes attachments. / Students will be able to:
analyze how the elements of the drama develop characters
(RL. 3) / Extended/Short Texts:
The Crucible, Arthur Miller
Instruction:
Character analysis assignment / Formative Assessment
Act 1 discussion
Character analysis
Rubric/presentation / Individual Work Group Work
Presentations
Summarization
Small group/Whole Class Discussion
3. Act 1 Quiz
Mob Mentality and Mass Hysteria / Students will be able to:
analyze and evaluate the causes and effects of mobs and mass hysteria (RI.6) / Extended/Short Texts:
The Crucible, Arthur Miller
Electronic Resources and Alternative Media:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/26/science/26hysteria.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
http://guardianlv.com/2014/08/mob-mentality-why-they-riot/
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/26/science/26hysteria.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 / Act 1 Quiz / Individual work
Whole class instruction and discussion
4. Read Act 2
Informational text
This module includes attachments. / Students will be able to:
Evaluate the effect of complex set of ideas impacts specific individuals, ideas, or events interact and develop over the course of the text. (RI.3) / Extended/Short Texts:
The Crucible, Arthur Miller
Electronic Resources and Alternative Media:
Are You Now or Were you Ever, Arthur Miller
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/miller-mccarthyism.html
“Blacklisted Woman” radio show, All Things Considered, NPR, 3/16/1996 (attachments) / Formative Assessment:
Summary
Of article
Questions for article
Summative Assessment:
Quiz Act 1 / Close reading
5. Read Act 3
This module includes attachments. / Students will be able to:
develop the topic thoroughly by selecting the most significant and relevant facts, extended definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples appropriate to the audience’s knowledge of the topic.(W.2) / Extended/Short Texts:
The Crucible, Arthur Miller
Electronic Resources and Alternative Media:
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/video/persuasive-techniques-advertising-1166.html / Summative Assessment:
Use devices in advertisement / Collaborative assignment
6.Things come to life
This module includes attachments. / Students will be able to:
Demonstrate an understanding of how key individuals, events, or ideas ―come to life in a text. (RL.3) / Extended/Short Texts:
The Crucible, Arthur Miller
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, Jonathan Edwards
Instruction:
Rhetoric handout
Questions/activity on Sinners
Arthur Miller'sThe Crucible:
Fact & Fiction (attachment) / Formative Assessment:
Facts vs. Fiction
Not everything is factual information
Summative Assessment:
Quiz Act 2 / Individual reading
Group evaluation of sinners
7.Act 3 Quiz
Why I Wrote The Crucible
This module includes attachments. / Students will be able to:
use evidence from informational text to determine the author’s point of view. (RI.6) / Extended/Short Texts:
The Crucible, Arthur Miller
Instruction:
New Yorker Article “Why I Wrote The Crucible, Arthur Miller (attachment) / Formative Assessment:
Fact or Fiction rhetorical analysis
Summative Assessment:
Quiz Act 3 / Oral fluency/small group reading
8. Read Act 4
Themes in Crucible
This module includes attachments. / Students will be able to:
gather relevant evidence from multiple sources to examine possible themes in The Crucible. (W.8) / Extended/Short Texts:
The Crucible, Arthur Miller
Electronic Resources and Alternative Media:
http://www.ted.com/talks/karen_thompson_walker_what_fear_can_teach_us#t-105839 (Fear) / Summative Assessment:
Expository Essay on theme / Writing Process
Viewing media
9. Act 4 Quiz
Wrap Up Discussion
Crucible Unit Final Test
This module includes attachments. / Students will be able to:
evaluate both literary and informational texts. (RL.10, RI.10) / Extended/Short Texts:
The Crucible, Arthur Miller / Summative Assessments:
Quiz Act 4
Crucible Unit Final Exam
AKO School City Assessment / Individual testing

These modules are not an exhaustive list of resources and may be used by teachers to implement the quarterly standards and to meet the needs of the students.

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