Activity one: Finish the template for Mary.
Language:
The Crucible uses lots of imagery: nature, religious and even colour imagery.
· 'Your name in the town, it is entirely white, is it not?' (Act One)
· '...do you keep that black allegiance yet?' (Act Three)
· 'There be no blush about my name.' (Act One)
What do you think the colour imagery tells you about the people of Salem and about their social structure?
Key events in Act 3.
· John tries to get Mary to confess to having lied about seeing spirits.
· Parris starts talking about how John never goes to church.
· John feels sorry for his friends, Francis and Giles, whose wives have been accused like John’s wife.
· Proctor shows Danforth a list of people who testify that Elizabeth, Martha and Rebecca aren’t witches.
· Abigail is questioned and said Mary is lying. Then Abigail says that Mary is sending her spirits out to all the girls.
· John gets angry and calls Abigail a whore. Then John has to explain about the affair.
· Elizabeth is called in to back up John. She is distracted by the girls pretending to see a bird. Elizabeth tries to stick up for her husband and say that he’s not a lecher but of course she ends up making John look like a liar! (irony)
· The girls keep acting up and finally Mary says she sees the devil.
· Danforth arrests John and Giles.
In groups of 4, you have 20- minutes to show your understanding of this scene using key quotes. You may choose to
1. Act it out and show it to the class at the end (2-3 minute long performance)
2. Do a cartoon strip/comic using …
3. Do a poster
4. Do a fake ‘interview with the author’
Next lesson: essay planning and movie.
Homework:
1. Where in this scene do you see pathos (appealing to the feeling of sympathy in the audience)?
2. How does this scene help you understand at least one theme of the play?
Key themes are: jealously, good/evil, hysteria, jealousy. Give at least 3 reasons.
Essay writing (Year 11 style essay): Tonight you will do an essay plan for one of the following: an important relationship, an important character or an important scene.
Here are the questions you will choose from this week:
· Describe a character that taught you something in The Crucible. Explain what that character helped you understand about an important theme.
· Describe at least one important relationship in The Crucible. Explain what the relationship (s) taught you about an important theme.
· Describe at least important event (scene/Act) in The Crucible. Explain what the event helped you to understand about an important idea.
You will need 3 points and 3 paragraphs.
S E X Y.
In each paragraph you will introduce a point about a character, a point about the relationship or a point about an important event depending on your question. You will give more details, use quotes and explain the quotes, and then you will explain what that character aspect/point about the relationship/point about the key scene helped you understand about any theme- e.g. jealousy, good/evil, hysteria. You must answer both parts of the question in your introduction.
Sample introduction:
An important relationship in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is between the two star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet whose relationship was ‘in the stars’. (part one answered)The relationship is important because it shows us the theme that fate decides everything. William Shakespeare shows us this because they met by accident and fell in love, because of the bad timing around Romeo leaving town and finally because of their deaths.