Mrs. Primack's English Class
The Crucible Web Quest
GROUP 1: The Salem Witchcraft Trials Your group will be responsible for reporting on the background of the hysteria in Salem. Use these websites to answer the questions on your handout: Wikipedia info on the witch trials Famous American Trials A Possible Cause of the Salem Witch Trials Salem Witchcraft Trials, D. Linder Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive GROUP 2: Arthur Miller Your group will be responsible for reporting on the author of The Crucible, Arthur Miller. Use these websites to answer the questions on your handout: Wikipedia info on Arthur Miller, author of The Crucible Arthur Miller on why he wrote The Crucible Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Fact and Fiction GROUP 3: Senator Joseph McCarthy and the Red Scare of the 1950’s Your group will be responsible for reporting on Senator McCarthy and the fear of Communism in the 1950’s. Use these websites to answer the questions on your handout: Communism and the Red Scare of the 50’s Wikipedia info on Senator McCarthy Background on McCarthyism About McCarthyism (Modern American Poetry site)
With the time you have left, go experience the National Geographic virtual witch hunt. You have been accused of witchcraft. Can you survive the trials?
