Welcome, Smart Students!
 Please settle in quickly and quietly.
 Make sure you have your materials for your:
 Notebooks
 Name Projects
 Study Guides
 Lit Circles
AGENDA:
 DO NOW: Materials prep
 Reminders and announcements
 Unit wrap up/work work
 Practice passage analysis
 Homework reminders
Reminders and Announcements
 No school TUESDAY, 11/3
 Crucible/Argument test  Thursday, 11/5

See me/email if you already know you won’t be here that day.
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Study Guides Due on the day of the test
 Notebooks  Due THURSDAY, 11/5
 Name Projects Friday, 11/6 by 11:59 p.m.
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Please be sure to email these to me!
 Lit Circle Meeting #1  Friday, 11/6
Your Task…
 Please use the first 30 minutes to work
on:
o Notebooks
o Name Projects
o Study Guides
o Lit Circles
Passage Analysis
 Please open up your Crucible books to PAGE 113
where Danforth says, “your husband– did he indeed
turn from you?”
 Carefully and closely read through PAGE 119, where
Mary Warren screams, “no, I love God…”
 On the slides that follow, you’ll have sample
passage analysis questions. You may want to write
your answers to the questions as well as your
reasoning so that the discussion that follows is
helpful.
Passage Analysis
1.
Danforth’s first words after
Elizabeth’s exit [“She spoke nothing
of lechery, this man has lied” (112)]
primarily show his
a.
b.
c.
d.
Commitment to the truth
Amazement that Hale is
questioning him
Predisposition to doubt Proctor’s
story
Refusal to consider Proctor
capable of lying
2. Abigail’s crying out about the
“bird” serves her desire to do all of
the following EXCEPT
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Cast suspicion upon Mary
Warren
Deflect Hale’s accusations
regarding herself
Reinforce Danforth’s
rejection of Proctor’s story
Ensure that Proctor will be
arrested
Strengthen her own position
in the court
Passage Analysis
3.
In the stage directions for
Abigail at the end of the
passage [“out of her infinite
charity reaches out” (119)], the
playwright most likely wants
the actress playing Abigail to
convey her
a. Hypocrisy
b. Gentleness
c. Youth
d. Malice
e. Unpredictability
4. This passage makes all of the
following statements about people
EXCEPT that they
a.
Are prone to be caught up in
hysteria
b.
Are all trying to reach the truth in
their own way
c.
Are susceptible to the power of
suggestion
d.
Can be manipulated to believe the
incredible
e.
Tend to believe anything that
bolsters their own opinions.
Homework Reminders
 Remember to print the passage analysis from the
website as part of your study guide.
 STUDY for your test!
 Continue working on your projects and outside
reading for the end of the week!