The Crucible

M: School Holiday

T: The students will make predictions about: (a) Will Proctor convince Mary to overcome her fears and testify against Abigail? and (b) If he does convince her, how will the judges receive the testimony? Read pages 1187 – 1194 and discuss (1) what is Giles’s motivation for interrupting the court and (2) what is Parris’s motivation for discrediting Mary Warren?

W: The students will complete a quiz over the Act II vocabulary words.

Th: The students will complete a quiz over Act II.

F: The students will 1194 – 1203 and will evaluate the  argument concerning (a) that Parris claims that  “all innocent and Christian people are happy for the courts” and (b) the ways Danforth’s arguments are based on faulty premises.