Learning Goals: we are learning to demonstrate our understanding of the play The Crucible by answering the study guide questions below. Some questions will require making inferences to answer effectively.
Success Criteria: I will answer the questions successfully if I…
- write in full and grammatically correct sentences
- use my own words and quote correctly when needed
- include key words from the question in my answers
- use thoughtfully chosen ideas from the text to support my ideas
- activate my critical thinking skills to understand implied ideas and answer accordingly
Act Three Questions:
- When the act begins, who is being questioned by Judge Hathorne? What is she accused of?
- Who suddenly appears in court and why?
- What does Mary Warren tell the court?
- What does Cheever say that Proctor did when they came to arrest Elizabeth Proctor?
- What do we learn about Elizabeth Proctor?
- How many people signed the deposition? Who are the people who signed, and to what are they testifying?
- Why does Danforth “rapidly calculate” the deposition and ask Proctor if he has “given out this story in the village”? (Miller 88).
- What does Danforth mean when he says “the entire contention of the state in these trials is that the voice of heaven is speaking through the children”? (Miller 88).
- Why is Giles Corey arrested?
- How many death warrants has Hale signed?
- What do the men of the court want Mary Warren to do on command?
- What does Proctor confess?
- What does Proctor say about his wife that eventually works against him?
- What do the girls pretend to see in the courtroom?
- What does Mary claim Proctor made her do?
- What does Hale do at the end of the Act? Why?
