1. Character Trading Cards: Assignment and Requirements
DUE: TUESDAY DECEMBER 15
For your midterm project, you will create trading cards for five characters in Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible. This assignment requires you to be familiar with the ways in which Miller gives audiences insight into his characters. This assignment also requires you to go beyond the text and make sophisticated inferences about the people of Miller’s Salem.
Directions: Choose five characters from The Crucible for whom you will create trading cards. Choose 3 major characters and two minor characters. Complete the print-out insert for each character (in complete sentences)..
Major Characters
Reverend Samuel Parris Abigail Williams
John Proctor
Thomas Putnam
Ann Putnam
Reverend John Hale
Rebecca Nurse
Mary Warren
Minor Characters
Tituba
Girls of Salem
Giles Corey
Francis Nurse
Mercy Lewis
Judge Hathorne
Deputy Governor Danforth
Sarah Good
Requirements: Each trading card must be:
fully colored and illustrated
fully completed
neatly handwritten (in pen) or typed
turned in in hard copy
similar in design and layout to typical trading cards

2. Symbol/illustration that represents the play as a whole Name:
Picture or Illustration
Attacks, defensive moves, abilities
What was this person’s job or work?
Type (think elements: ice, fire, water, air, rock, etc. What symbolizes this person?) and rarity (how much power does this person have? how important are they?)

3. Name:
Character’s main conflict or problem (2-3 sentences)?
MAJOR CHARACTERS: In this section, please include three character traits with direct quotations from the text (including line numbers) and explanations of those quotations (how does this piece of text demonstrate the character trait?)
MINOR CHARACTERS: Same, include one trait
Character’s motivation– what makes them tick (2-3 sentences)?
What outcome or end result was the person trying to achieve (2-3 sentences)?
Did the person succeed? What happened as a result? (2-3 sentences)
Who are your character’s rivals? What “types” or attacks are they effective or ineffective against (2-3 sentences)?
Attacks, defensive moves, abilities
What was this person’s job or work?
Type (think elements: ice, fire, water, air, rock, etc. What symbolizes this person?) and rarity (how much power does this person have? how important are they?)