**ATTENTION 1st/2nd AP/1102 HW RDG/ASSIGNMENT DUE COMPLETED MON. 1/24**

 1st/2nd APLang/ENG 1102

1) ATTENTION, ALL; HW DUE MON. 1/24:

IN ADDITION TO THIS PAST WEEKEND'S ACT 1, AN OVERTURE RDG/Qu's ASSIGNMENT, make sure you've all read the following in Arthur Miller's play The Crucible:

• ACT ONE (**ALL that falls after the Overture)
• **in the paperback copy you received in class: 1st block through pp. 46 and 2nd block through pp. 48

**NOTE: It's HIGHLY-RECOMMENDED that you all take special consideration of the following qu's while/after you read (i.e., post-its, paper notes, pg. # references, etc.); I WILL LOOK MONDAY 1/24 TO SEE THESE Qu's COMPLETED and they will guide DISCUSSION MON/TUES 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