English 11 (Period 3)

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Agenda 9/25 Wednesday

**Due in basket: Your exit slip/hw from last night if you didn't finish in class.

1. Journal #4: vocab. 3.3 (get from class)

2. Watch The Crucible trailer (click above link)

3. In Journal #4, write down this question: "What
do we need to know about _____________ in order to understand Arthur Miller’s TheCrucible fully?" Then, list the following topics:

1) Arthur Miller

2) Puritanism

3) Gender roles in Puritan society, religion (Puritan beliefs)

4) Red Scare/McCarthyism

5) Salem Witch Trial

6) Psychological aspect of hysteria/group hysteria

7) Puritan views on witchcraft

8) Hollywood Ten/Blacklisting

 

4. In groups I have assigned you, research on the topic I gave your group and create a powerpoint together. Read the instructions in the above attached file.

 

Agenda 9/24 Tuesday

1. Click on the link above for Sojourner Truth's speech "And Ain't I a Woman?"

2. After reading her speech, click on YOUR PERIOD'S link above to take your PASTORI quiz.

3. Exit Slip/HW IF NOT FINISHED IN CLASS TODAY: Write your teacher or your principal a letter using ethos, logos, and pathos to persuade her/him that your period 1 class should or should not get every Friday off to do independent study (basically, you would have period 1 class cancelled every Friday and an assignment to do on your own instead). Before you write, do a SOAPSTone on this prompt (S=Who is the SPEAKER of your letter, O=What is the OCCASION of your letter, A=Who is the AUDIENCE of your letter, P=What is the PURPOSE/MAIN GOAL of this letter, S=What is the SUBJECT of your letter, Tone=What should be your TONE in this letter) at the top of your paper first. Then, you can write the letter.