Honors Classes: Review Act III
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Short Response: Answer the following questions based on your
knowledge of the drama. Write a sentence or two on a separate
sheet of paper.
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Describe one piece of evidence that Giles, Francis, or Proctor bring
before the court to show that the girls are lying.
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What does Abigail do to distract Danforth from Hale’s accusations
that she is lying?
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Danforth explains that “. . . a person is either with this court or he
must be counted against it, there be no road between.” What
conclusion can you draw about Danforth’s character from this line?
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How does Hale excuse Elizabeth’s lie about Abigail’s affair with
Proctor?
Standard Classes: Review Act II
Why does Elizabeth think that Abigail
would like to get rid of her?
 When Proctor recites the Commandments,
which one does he omit?
 Cheever finds a needle in the doll. Why
does the needle convince him that
Elizabeth is a witch?
 What does Proctor want Mary Warren to
tell the court?
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Conflict
RL 1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis
of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the
text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
RL 3: Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to
develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story
is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced
and developed.)
Conflict
The struggle that grows out of the interplay
of two opposing forces.
 OR: a fight, a battle, a struggle to keep
one person from getting what they
want/need.
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Your goal: to go to college
 Your conflict: failing grades
 The story: Do you achieve your goals or do
the failing grades keep you out of college?
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Conflict
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For our purposes, we are only going to
cover three kinds of conflict:
Humankind vs. humankind
 Humankind vs. society
 Humankind vs. self
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Humankind vs. humankind
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Or less politically correct, man vs. man.
This is a conflict of interests between two
characters.
 The protagonist and antagonist.
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 Examples?
Humankind vs. Society
Man vs. society
 Man vs. societal ideals/philosophies/social
movements.
 Examples?
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Humankind vs. Self
Man vs. self
 This is when the protagonist has inner
conflict
 Man vs. fear/self doubt/ narcissism/
insanity/paranoia
 Examples?
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Internal and External Conflict
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Internal Conflict: is a mental or emotional
struggle that occurs within a character
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External Conflict: is a struggle that occurs
between a character and outside forces,
which could be another character or the
environment.
On your own!
Fill out the Conflict worksheet for each
character on your own!
 Be prepared for a class discussion/debate.
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