Following is information  to assist you in your study of Arthur Miller's play The Crucible. Read the material carefully at each site and take notes - you are responsible for the information on these pages.

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/SAL_CRU.HTM

1. What social events contemporary to Miller influenced a theme in the Crucible?

http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/

2. What do you notice about the accused and the accusers by watching the virtual map?

3. Read through some of the court documents and letters. Outline what you learn.

http://www.teachtheteachers.org/projects/AMoore/Crucible.htm

4. What is the subject of the poem and how does this subject relate to the Crucible?

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/salem/

5. Go through the virtual witch hunt and write a one to two page paper describing the experience.

http://www.ibiblio.org/miller

6. Read through the chronology, and list/explain which life events you think may have been most influential in Miller's writing of the Crucible?

http://www.metromagazine.com.au/metro/studyguides/files/Crucible.pdf

7. Read through this study guide to the play/film, and be prepared to respond to any questions posed in the guide, and familiar with any new material learned from the guide itself.

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/salem.htm

9. Read through "An Account of the Events in Salem" and take notes.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAmccarthyism.htm

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/mccarthyism.html

10. Write a brief outline of the history of Mccarthyism.

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