Thursday Agenda 3/4/10

SMA READING PROJECTS ARE DUE MARCH 19, 2009! This is part of your midterm test!

End of the Grading Period-3/23/10

LTC Kopacz; English III

A)   E.2.4.5: analyze emotional language

B)   A.2.4.2: detect bias in a speaker’s language

C)   Understand a play

Bell Work:

1)   Students will complete Superstition worksheet

2)    Background information, why Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible:

McCarthy Hearings:

During the McCarthy hearings (1950’s) many innocent people were accused of being traitors (communists, mainly) to our country and, while they were not physically harmed, their professional and personal lives were ruined by this adverse publicity, which was often untrue.  During this period also (as in Salem) many supposed “good people” participated in the accusations against others because they were afraid that if they refused to do so their own lives would be ruined. Miller is thus drawing a parallel between two periods of hysteria in our country, though far apart in time, that are dangerously close in ideology.  (Guidon study materials)

Class Work: Honors & Regular: 

1)     Students will begin reading The Crucible by Arthur Miller, and complete questions related to play.

Homework: Regular and Honors:

1)     Students will answer questions for Act I.