The Crucible: anticipation guide follow-up

The Crucible: anticipation guide follow-up

 

After reading the play.  Go through the statements and mark whether you agree or disagree with the statement.  Then choose one of the above statements in the AFTER column with which you strongly agree or disagree. Explain on the American Lit blog site your feelings about this statement in a paragraph that follows a formal paragraph format.

TOPIC SENTENCE: Statement of choice.

INTRODUCE EVIDENCE: Why or why not?

QUOTES OR EVIDENCE: Provide an example from real life and from the play that serves as evidence to your opinion.

ANALYSIS: What does each example show? How does each support your opinion?

The Crucible: Quotation Pre-reading Blog

The Crucible: Pre-reading Blog

Read each of the following quotations.  Choose one and write about it- what does it mean, connect it to your life, connect it to the real world, connect it to a current event, connect it to an event from the past.  You need to have an intro, body, and conclusion.  Really focus on your ideas.  Go back through it and make sure you eliminate mistakes before you post it.

• “Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be

true.”  ~Chinese Proverb

• “The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.”  ~Ken Kesey
• “Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.”  ~Alexander Hamilton
• “A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.”  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!”   ~Amy Tan
• “Who lies for you will lie against you.”  ~Bosnian Proverb
• “When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.”   ~John Grisham
• “Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.”   ~Erich Fromm
• “The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.”  ~Jim Hightower
• “I liken an affair to the shattering of a Waterford crystal vase. You can glue it back together, but it will never be the same again.”   ~John Gottman

"A Rose for Emily" Insight

"A Rose for Emily" Insight

From your first-draft and second-draft reading, you jotted down questions, connections, ideas, and more that you had.  Go back through those ideas and choose one that you will focus on.  Give full insight on your ideas and provide textual evidence to prove your thoughts.

Aging Gracefully: prepping for Hawthorne

"Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" 

written by Nathaniel Hawthorne

     What do you like most about being the age you are right now?  What aspects of growing older do you look forward to?  What aspects of growing older are undesirable to you?  Do you think youth and age should be measured by the years a person has lived or by a person's behavior and outlook?

"I Hear America Singing"

Mash It Up!

  We read and discussed Walt Whitman's "I Hear America Singing" as well as Langston Hughes's "I, Too."  Type your modern version of "I Hear America Singing."  Then, write two paragraphs that shows comparisons and differences between all three poems (Whitman's, Hughes's, and yours.)  Really put thought into your writing, avoid the "obvious,"  and use citations to prove your points.

Puritan Literature: Tie It All Together

Beliefs, Values, & Principles

After reading the various pieces of Puritan literature, think about the strong religious beliefs as well as the principles and values that were important to the Puritans.  Discuss how the pieces beliefs, values and principles were similar or different.  Use specific passages from the book (parenthetical notation - MLA) that proves your ideas.  Then discuss if any of those beliefs, values, or principles are still important today.  Please use specific examples to prove your ideas.

"To My Dear and Loving Husband" Comparison

Anne Bradstreet talks about her eternal love for her husband.  We could describe their relationship as passionate, caring, loving, warm. devoted, and tender.  Now think about a couple (real life, tv, movie, or book) that has a relationship that is similar.  Discuss the comparisons between the relationships.  Please use pieces of the poem to show the relationship between Mr. and Mrs. Bradstreet as well as specific examples about the couple you know that complete the circle of love blog you're writing.