**ATTENTION AP/1102 REMINDERS FOR WED. 2/24 & HW TO COMPLETE BY CLASSTIME THURS. 2/25

 1st/2nd AP LANG/ENG 1102

1) FIRST, IMPORTANT FYI/REMINDERS FOR CLASS WED. 2/24:

• be ready Wednesday for an IN-CLASS, TIMED AP LANG EXAM MULTIPLE CHOICE 'MINI'-PRACTICE
• one passage and 10-12 qu's to answer that we'll check/discuss answers afterward, and I'll be noting how many you get correct!
• while you all work on this MChoice practice, I'll be coming around to assess your progress and give tips for AP MChoice practice if needed

• ALSO, FYI: I'll be returning your SCORED/GRADED TTTC AP Exam Practice RA/Q2 PROMPT Response/Timed Rewrite

• Also be ready tomorrow with your copy of THE CRUCIBLE (or computer pdf copy/on your phone) to start together reading/intro to the play

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2) ATTENTION AP LANG/ENG 1102; HW DUE THURS. 2/25 **AMENDED, SO PLEASE PAY ATTENTION!!!** ........:

**FIRST: Make sure you've all read the following in Arthur Miller's play The Crucible:

• "A NOTE ON THE HISTORICAL ACCURACY OF THIS PLAY"

• ACT ONE (An Overture)
• **in BOTH the paperback copy most of you received in class Tuesday and the linked PDF version below, you'll be reading through pp. 48

•  **LINK HERE TO THE PDF FULL TEXT OF THE CRUCIBLE if you did not get a paper copy (*this is the SAME TEXT AS THE PAPERBACK COPIES; and I do have more copies on the way!)**

**NEXT: AS JOURNAL #15 in the JOURNAL SECTION OF YOUR BINDER, ANSWER ON PAPER OR TYPED UP the following qu's while/after you read (NOTE: post-its, paper notes, pg. # references, jotting down the answer(s) for each is fine, so long as you have responses for J#15); these qu's will guide DISCUSSION THURSDAY in class!

ACT ONE:

• Why was Abigail asked to leave the Proctor’s home? What are Abigail’s feelings for John Proctor? For Elizabeth Proctor? 

• Why do the Putnam’s start talking about witchcraft? What do they and others mention as signs of witchcraft?

• Why does Reverend Hale believe Abigail over Tituba? 

• How is Tituba led into confessing and naming people? 

• By the end of Act 1, the girls dancing in the woods (and dabbling in other things they should not have) turns into a litany of people being charged with witchcraft. Who, in your opinion, is most responsible? You may pick up to two people, but you must explain, using both "text evidence" and actions from the act. Whom do you blame for the hysteria that occurs, and why do you blame him/her/them?

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*AND FINALLY: for some background reference for the Salem Witch Trials, check out this interesting collection of 52 short YouTube videos detailing the events that led up to, and culminated into, the infamous 1692 trials--one video for each week of the year:

THE WITCH TRIALS WEEKLY, from The Salem Witch Museum

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REMINDER: PLEASE BRING YOUR COPY OF THE CRUCIBLE (or your phone/computer to read it from the PDF link on the blog!) TO CLASS EVERY DAY!