1. Bell work
How would you end The Crucible? If you had to write the final act of the drama, how would it end? Write a synopsis of your ending, make sure to inform the audience of what happens with the protagonist, antagonist, and foil.

2. State Standard Objectives
I will be able to use a graphic organizer to clarify meaning.
I will be able to evaluate the author’s use of literary elements

3. Objectives Explore the key idea of hysteria
Identify and analyze conventions of drama
Read drama
Draw conclusions about characters
Build vocabulary for reading and writing
Use context clues to help determine word meaning
Use appropriate word choice and sentence structure to create realistic dialogue
Use writing to analyze literature

4. Act 3 Reading Check
Complete the 5 questions on your own. Yes, you should use complete sentences.
No discussion, no checking your answers or your neighbor’s.
You have 10 minutes.

5. Act 3 Summary
Proctor brings Mary Warren to the court, where Giles Corey and Francis Nurse also are trying to defend their wives. There, Mary confesses that Abigail and the other girls are frauds. When Abigail accuses Mary of bewitching her, Mary turns from Proctor and rejoins the girls. Proctor admits his infidelity, but Elizabeth denies it to save his reputation. The girls make hysterical accusations against Proctor; when he is arrested, Reverend Hale quits in disgust.

6. Bell work
Make a list of at least 3 conflicts John Proctor has had (could be internal or external).

7. Plot Plot – the sequence of events in a literary work
Conflict – a struggle between opposing forces
Internal conflict – a struggle between opposing forces within a character
External conflict – pits a character against nature, society, or another character

8. Plot Chart Column 1 – make a list of the conflicts of John Proctor
Column 2 – identify if the conflict is internal or external
Column 3 – explain how the conflict is resolved

9. Grammar & Style
Arthur Miller chose his words carefully to reflect the speech at the time in which his drama was set. He used inverted syntax and archaic language (like in the poems we discussed).
Rewrite the 6 sentences to reflect the 17th century speech patterns that Miller uses.

10. Writing realistic dialogue
Write a sentence that you would say to someone today.
Then choose 3 separate settings (different time and place) and translate your dialogue.

11. Context Clues
Context refers to the words, sentences, paragraphs and even punctuation marks that surround a word.
Types of Contest clues
Definitions – restatements of the word in simpler terms
Examples that help to suggest meaning
Comparisons of unknown words with something known
Contrasts – use of opposites to show differences between words

12. Vocabulary
Write each vocabulary word and its definition 5 times each.

13. Act 4
Follow along as we finish The Crucible.