The Crucible End-of- Unit Group Research of Historical Tyrannies
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Your high school ELA students will enjoy collaborating on this culminating research and presentation project for Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible. Connecting the play to other historical tyrannies provides a broader perspective on the rigid ideology of the Salem Puritans and similar groups and individuals throughout history.
The project is a great way for kids to apply their understanding of literature to real world events while enhancing research, collaboration, and presentation skills. No prep.
This activity focuses on the rigid ideology of the Puritans as portrayed in The Crucible and by the accusers during the McCarthy trials.
- There is a brief discussion of the theme, “dangerous ideology."
- The group project requires students to research people or events in history that illustrate rigid ideology becoming corrupt and tyrannical.
- Students then collaborate to design a creative presentation for their classmates.
- There is a list of 19 topics from which to choose, for example:
- 1. Eugene Debs-WWI/Socialism/unions
- 2. Imperialism vs. Anti-Imperialism-Spanish/American War, 1898
- 3. Temperance Movement (18th Amendment)
- 4. Suffragists (19th Amendment)
- 5. Russian Revolution
- 6. WWII Dictators: Hitler/Mussolini/ Japan-Hirohito (Could be done separately)
Quite a diverse list for a diversity of students’ interests!
Detailed scoring rubric
Additional rubric on which you can determine your own point values
Quotes about tyranny
Suitable activity for all levels of students.
I encourage students to present their information in creative ways.
Most create a slide presentation; however, I recently had a group present Eugenics with a game that “kicked people out of the gene pool.”
In the past students have shown clips from the Manson trials to illustrate the dangers of cults and played clips from Across the Universe to portray the hippy counter culture.
Students have videotaped their own portrayals of protests, conducted interviews with historical figures, and decorated the classroom with WW2 propaganda posters.
The possibilities are infinite.
My students always enjoy the research and organization process and viewing classmates’ presentations.
A buyer commented, "I took this project and made it into a PBL for my students. Initially, they fought hard against it, but then they started to really get into it!! I loved it because it shows that history repeats itself because of the individual vs. group dynamic. Wonderful!!"
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