Transcript Slide 1

• Community: Unity and Exclusion Who is a part of the community of
Salem? Who is excluded? How and
why does the trial change the typical
order of the community? What
happens to the community when the
order is changed? Who is included in
the community of your school or
town? Who is excluded?
• The Puritan Myth - What is Puritanism?
What do textbooks say about the
Puritans? Why did they come to
America? If this play is accurate, what
myths do you find in definitions,
textbook descriptions, and the Puritan's
motivations for freedom? What groups
can you identify in your school or
community? What myths surround
stereotypes of these groups?
• Order vs. Individual Freedom - Why did
the Puritans come to America? What
level of individual freedom do you see in
Salem? What level of order? What
happens when one or the other gets out
of balance? When does order become
autocratic? What is the balance between
individual freedom and order in your
school or community?
POST SECRET
• PostSecret is an ongoing community mail
art project, created by Frank Warren, in
which people mail their secrets
anonymously on a homemade postcard.
Selected secrets are then posted on the
PostSecret website, or used for
PostSecret's books
The Crucible Post Secret
• Pick a character from The Crucible, come up
with a secret for that character and then
create a postcard with a secret like one of the
postcards Frank Warren received.
• The postcard will reflect the perspective of a
character from The Crucible. You are inventing
a secret that your character keeps, not using a
secret already revealed in the text. For
example, you cannot have John Proctor’s
secret be, “I had an affair with Abigail
Williams.”
People assume she died…
But the truth is I left
my wife in Barbados…
and I don’t miss her at all.
The Crucible Post Secret
• Be careful that the secret you create relates to
the personality of the character, though. You’d
score poorly if you chose Rebecca Nurse and
made her secret, “On the weekends, I like to get
wasted in order to prove that I’m cool.”
• Include visuals related to the secret and play.
• On the back, write the name of the character for
whom you have created the postcard, a welldeveloped explanation of why the character is
keeping this secret that includes specific details
about the character or a quote (with page
number) which justifies the secret you have
created