FOR: Period 1

From: Mr. Ho
Class: College Preparatory English 3
Activities preview for the week of April 24 – 29, 2011
Monday

1) M.E. 2.9 - “All over the United States, families are in trouble. It is true that there are
many contented homes where families are living in harmony; however, various threats to
family life are much greater for some families than for others. There are those today, as
at various times in the past – who doubt that the family can survive….”
• Analyze the significance of the writer’s claims about families being “in trouble.” Then
explain whether you agree or disagree with the writer’s assertions concerning the current
state of the family in America.

2) 4 Vocabulary cards for the following words:

a. pallor b. ameliorate c. avidly d. deference e. abomination f. blasphemy

g. ALLUSION
Tuesday
1) Worksheet on quotes, character analysis, and allusion
2) Reading of Act II

Wednesday
1) Continuing previous day’s worksheet
2) Continuing reading Act II

Thursday
1) Finishing Act II
2) Reviewing Act I and Act II with graphic organizer for the two acts

Friday
1) Vocabulary exam
2) Quotes quiz
3) Watching interpretation of Act II from the play.
 Important quotes from Act II of The Crucible

Please write:
a. the name of the speaker and who he or she is saying it to,
b. the page number of the quote, and
c. the significance of the quotes from ACT II
1) “I have gone tiptoe in this house all seven month since she is gone. I have not moved from there to
there without I think to please you, and still an everlasting funeral marches round your heart. I cannot
speak but I am doubted, every moment judged for lies, as though I come into a court when I come into
this house!”
a. _Speaker Intended audience
b. _
c. _
2) “I do not judge you. The magistrate sits in your heart that judges you.”
a. _Speaker Intended audience
b. _
c. _
3) “I made a gift for you today, Goody Proctor. I had to sit long hours in a chair, and passed the time
with sewing.”
a. _Speaker Intended audience
b.
c. _
d. _
4) “She wants me dead, John, you know it!”
a. _Speaker Intended audience
b.
c. _
d. _
5) “The promise that a stallion gives a mare I gave that girl!”
a. _Speaker Intended audience
b.
c. _
d. _
6) “We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of
the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!”
a. _
b. _
c. _

Character Analysis of Act II

Character name Age, appearance, behavior What s/he wants & (page #) What s/he fears & (page #)
John Proctor

Elizabeth Proctor

Mary Warren

Reverend Hale