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Bellwork: 10/5
Turn to page 28 in your agenda and read
silently
In your bell work section, write why cheating
is wrong, and “getting away with cheating” is
not worth the risk.
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As stated in your handbook: Cheating is
defined as copying information from another
students’ test, hw, class work, etc.
Talking while taking quizzes, tests, or exams.
Failing to follow instructions of the teacher as
announced in the classroom.
If you are caught cheating:
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First offense: Zero for the test
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Second offense: Failure of the quarter
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As of now you all have zeros on yesterday’s
quiz
If the cheaters confess, your grades will be
restored
On a sheet of paper to turn in, write any
information that you know about this
situation
Salem Witch Trials
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Essential Question
What caused the Salem Witch Trials and what
can we do to prevent a “witch hunt” from
occurring today?
Salem, Massachusetts
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A Puritan town, with religion at the center all
aspects of society/daily life
During this time period, it was believed that
one could make an arrangement with the
devil for evil powers a.k.a. witchcraft
Unexplainable sicknesses or behavior were
also blamed on the devil
The beginning
Two young girls, Betty Parris, 9, and Abigail
Williams, 11, began to have uncontrollable “fits”
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The girls were said scream obscenities, go into
seizures, and trancelike states.
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Doctors could not find any causes of these
actions so the townspeople decided they must
have been bewitched
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When people came to examine the girls, they
were very convincing
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The girls rolled about in agony, screamed in pain, and
claimed to see one another afflicted by specters
invisible to the examiners.
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marks and bruises on their bodies seemed to confirm
their stories.
Many of those who came to see the examinations
were persuaded.
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The girls eventually “confessed” that a slave
named Tituba was the witch that had bewitched
them, with the help of two local women.
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Under intense pressure, Tituba admitted to having
dealings with the devil and also said there were other
witches in the area who wanted to destroy the
community
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Witch Hysteria
Over the coming weeks, community members
started accusing their neighbors of being
witches
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19 people were hanged after being accused of
being witches
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1 person was pressed to death with large rocks
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Over 140 total people were accused of being
witches
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Witch Trials
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Trial of George Jacobs
Actual Depositions
The Deposistion of Ann putnam who testifieth and saith that
on 13'th of April 1692, I saw the Apperishtion of Gilles Cory com
and afflect me urging me to writ in his book and so he
continewed hurt-ing me by times tell the 19'th April being the
day of his examina-tion : and dureing the time of his examination
Giles Cory did tortor me a grat many times.and allso severall
times sence Giles Cory or his Apperance has most greviously
afflected me by beating pinching
and almost Choaking me to death urging me to writ in his book
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also on the day of his examination I saw Giles
Cory or his Appearance
most grieviously afflict and torment Mary
Walcott, Mercy Lewis, and
Sarah Vibber and I verily believe that Giles Cory
is [is] a dreadful
wizard for since he has been in prison he or his
Appearance has come
to me a great many times and afflicted me.
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Consequences
By the time the hysteria had spent itself, 24
people had died.
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Nineteen were hanged on Gallows Hill in Salem
Town, but some died in prison.
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Giles Corey at first pleaded not guilty to
charges of witchcraft, but subsequently refused
to stand trial. This refusal meant he could not be
convicted legally. However, his examiners chose
to subject him to interrogation by the placing of
stone weights on his body. He survived this
brutal torture for two days before dying.
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Executions
Giles Corey- Pressed to Death
Executions
Death By Hanging:
Bridget Bishop
George Burroughs
Martha Carrier
Martha Corey
Mary Easty
Sarah Good
Elizabeth Howe
George Jacobs, Sr.
Susannah Martin
Rebecca Nurse
Alice Parker
Mary Parker
John Proctor
Ann Pudeator
Wilmott Redd
Margaret Scott
Samuel Wardwell
Sarah Wildes
John Willard
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How could it spread so easily?
There were no definite signs of being a witch,
since they are not real
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Symptoms of being a witch can be anything unusual or
different
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It could be difficult to prove your innocence
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Since people were looking for witches, that is
what they found
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Why would people accuse their
neighbors
Jealousy or envy
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Dislike or past grudges
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To keep the focus off themselves
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Teenage boredom
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“Mean girls syndrome”
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Why might the girls lie
Some historians believe that the girls were
acting out their anger against parents.
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Other historians find that the girls were ill in
some way or subject to hallucinations.
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Another group of scholars believes the girls
came to love the attention and power that the
accusations gave them.
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