UNIT OBJECTIVES - The Crucible
- Students will consider the themes of crime and punishment, individual vs. authority, and revenge.
- Students will be exposed to a different era of American life, showing many of today's conflicts are not new; they are rooted in our American past.
- As they are exposed to the path of John Proctor's personal development, students will learn about a citizen's responsibility to become involved in his world.
- Students will be given the opportunity to practice reading aloud to improve their oral reading skills.
- Students will answer questions to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of the main events and characters in The Crucible as they relate to the author's theme development.
- The writing assignments in this unit are geared to several purposes:
- To have students demonstrate their abilities to inform, to persuade, or to express their own personal ideas
- To check the students' reading comprehension
- To make students think about the ideas presented by the play
- To encourage logical thinking
- To provide an opportunity to practice good grammar and improve students' use of the English language.
- Students will demonstrate ability to write effectively to inform by developing and organizing facts to convey information.
- Students will demonstrate the ability to write effectively to persuade by selecting and organizing relevant information, establishing an argumentative purpose, and by designing an appropriate strategy for an identified audience.
- Students will demonstrate the ability to write effectively to express personal ideas by selecting a form and its appropriate elements.