Date: Thursday, April 19, 2012

Today’s activity

• Who: You and ONE partner
• What: Complete Puritan and McCarthyism Project that counts for 1/3 of the Crucible unit grade
• Why: In order to truly understand a literary text, one must fully understand the times, the historical, social, religious, and political situation, and the cultural assumptions and cultural influences of a particular time in which events took place.
• Where: In the classroom, in virtual space, and outside of class.
• How: Researched, created, interpreted
• When: Today for almost 3 hours and the rest of this month

Part 1: Historical background (25 points max)
Calvinism, Puritan beliefs, Clothing, Life for kids, and marriage.
Create it like a Encyclopedia Page with proper citation.

Part 2: Influences (100 points max)
Social, moral, religious convictions and influences
Interpreted through “The Puritan” Magazine cover. Create a fake magazine looking cover to express ideas and possible events from the 1690s in the United States – pattern after a tabloid magazine.
Or
Create a deck of baseball card like cards for the characters of the Crucible with Image and description on the front and facts and interesting information on the backside.

Part 3: McCarthyism (25 points max)
View McCarthy in action and analyze his speech pattern and critique his behavior.

Part 4: Witch-hunt in a Racial Profiling era (50 points – 10 per article)
Research facts, statistics, history, and current practices – find, cite, and summarize 5 articles on racial profiling

Part 5: Scene interpretation (100 points)
Acting out a particular scene in a different GENRE (e.g., Horror, mystery, romance, comedy, space/fantasy, satire/parody).

RESULTING INTERPRETATIONS

Part 1 should look like this….

Part 2 should look like this…

Part 3 will be a list of notes on McCarthy
Part 4 will be more like annotated bibliography like this…

Part 5 will be performed

Tags: Crucible, pbl, project