Monday, August 22, 2016

Witch Hunting: August 22, 2016

Focus: Who were these Puritans, and what were they so afraid of?

Please turn in your signed course expectations and overview.

1. Warming up with a follow-up from Friday: How does last Friday's approach to vocabulary differ from traditional approaches to vocabulary? What skills did you need to do this activity?

Offering you access to a little more Puritan lingo from "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
The problem: You're listening to a Puritan sermon. You don't know anything about Puritans. You don't even understand their language. They're not even alive anymore. How can you use their lingo to unlock their lives?


2. Testing the targets; trying them out as we view The Crucible film clips (11:50, 31:50, 1:15:30ish)

3. Solving the Salem witch trials:

a. Keeping the problem in mind, investigate the Salem witch trials individually using this overview and this target.

b. As a group, work towards a collaborative understanding of the Salem witch trials by sharing what you found at the core of your target.

c. In small groups, work towards solving the problem by developing thoughtful responses to the three big questions posed on the overview.

4. Wrapping up by posting one question about the Salem witch trials lurking in your brain

HW:
1. Before class tomorrow, please finish filling in your target if you did not finish in class. Don't worry about the three big questions on the overview yet if we didn't get to them in class.

2. If you have not yet completed the survey, please do so as soon as you can (this Friday at the latest).


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