**ATTENTION 1st/2nd BLOCK AP/1102 UPDATED/AMENDED HW RDG/ASSIGNMENT NOW DUE THURS. 1/20**

1st/2nd AP LANG/ENG 1102

1) FIRST, IMPORTANT FYIs/UPDATES/REMINDERS:

• Make sure you've all read the AMENDED/UPDATED CLASSROOM POST FOR WED. 1/19 w/this assignment reminder as well as the NEW/ADDITIONAL ASSIGNMENT TO COMPLETE BY 11:59pm WED. 1/19!!....

• AND! MANY of you have your "The Gettysburg Address" timed/short RA practice essay to complete THURS. 1/20, so be ready first thing!

• ALSO: if you have not yet and as an intro to reading the The Crucible, watch the TEDEd "What Really Happened During the Salem Witch Trials" video linked on the Classroom post from FRI. 1/14 (it's helpful!)

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2) ATTENTION AP LANG/ENG 1102; HW DUE THURS. 1/20 

**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" (short first page)

• ACT ONE: An Overture (**NOTE: READ JUST 'An Overture'--ends at the BOTTOM OF pp. 7 **OR** TOP OF pp. 8 with "..and did burst out in general revenge.")
• **AGAIN, in BOTH the paperback copy most of you received in class Friday and the linked PDF version below (and on the Classroom, you'll be reading through EITHER the bottom of pp. 7 OR the top of pp. 8!!!

•  **LINK HERE TO THE PDF FULL TEXT OF THE CRUCIBLEif 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: on POST-ITS and/or PAPER/TYPED UP (for those of you working from the digital copy for now) ANSWER 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 THOROUGH responses & GIVE ME YOUR BEST EFFORT); these qu's will guide DISCUSSION TUESDAY and beyond in class!

ACT ONE, AN OVERTURE Qu's TO ANSWER:

• FIRST THING, look up the definitionS (<< there are several) of CRUCIBLE and be ready share and connect these to this play, even considering what little (or much!) you may know now about its context.

• Describe with the text and your own words Reverend Parris' beliefs about himself (spiritual, moral, societal, etc.)

• After reading pp. 3-4 of the Overture, describe what seems to be most important to the townspeople of Salem. What text evidence validates your assessment?

• What is a THEOCRACY, and why did the town of Salem essentially create one?

• Based on the final pages (pp. 7-8) of the Overture, why were so many people accusing others of witchcraft? In other words, what were the accusers' motives?