Arthur Miller’s
The Crucible
Webquests, PowerPoints & Essays
By: Margaret T. Maher
Engl 613
Prof. Kutz
Summer 2010
Overview
~ This Final Project is meant to incorporate
three types of technology presented in class:
WebQuests, PowerPoints, & class websites.
~ With this technology, students will develop
their character analysis skills, their oral
communication and presentation skills, and
finally their writing process skills.
Goals
For WebQuest Part I: Characterization
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Students will research textual evidence to build up and
support their opinions of a specific character.
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Students will complete online literary research to add more
weight and legitimacy to their argument.
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Students will develop their technology skills, accurately and
in an innovative fashion, design a PowerPoint Presentation
that will illuminate their classmates about a specific
character.
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Students will present in a peer group all the information
gathered, honing their presentation skills and oral
communication
WebQuest I: CharacterizationExcerpts from the Process
1.
Begin by re-reading your notes on Direct and Indirect
Characterization.
- (Notice the Hypertext, directing the students to
the class website where the notes have been uploaded)
2.
The Literary Luminary is meant to research 3
quotations from the play: one direct, and two indirect.
Include page numbers and the proper MLA formatted
citation.
- (Notice the Hypertext here connecting the
students to an outside resource to verify the required MLA
formatted citation.)
Goals
For WebQuest Part II: Writing an Essay
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Students will identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of
theme in a literary work and provide evidence from the text
to support their understanding.
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Students will demonstrate improvement in organization,
content, paragraph development, level of detail, style, tone,
and word choice (diction) in their compositions after revising
them.
- from Massachusetts State Standards
Class Website: Class Files
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Sample Files:
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Parents, Missing Open House? Watch This!
- a PowerPoint Presentation of parents who couldn’t
attend Open House
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September Monthly Calendar
- In case any student loses his calendar, or a parent
wants to know what & when assignments are due.
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The Crucible Essay: Sample Body Paragraph
- Students can access a sample paragraph to help
mirror its success in their own writing.
Goals
For Class Website
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Students will have ready access to class notes, calendars,
assignments, and files.
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The website is available for parents, Special Education
Liaisons and Guidance Counselors to access.
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Students will take responsibility to visit the website, check
assignments and complete those assignments.
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Students will be trained in the technology needed to utilize
the website properly, thus assisting them in how to
appropriately use the Internet as a resource.
Why This Technology?
WebQuest
Multimodual Texts
 Hypertext Design &
Use
 Independent research
 Time Management &
Responsibility
 Access to all notes,
sample pieces, &
rubrics
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PowerPoint
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Collaboration Efforts
Oral Presentation Skills
How to depict key ideas
Class Website
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Self-Motivation to access
notes & supplementary
resources
Proper Internet Usage (as
a Tool, not just a toy)
Post questions & check
notes
Conclusion
By incorporating three different types
of technology into my unit plans, I am
working to follow the dictates of Kadjer,
which remind we teachers that we are
helping to guide and instruct students to
innovative about “tomorrow,” and to be
open-minded about literature and life.