The Crucible Unit Bundle: Activities, Reading Guides, Quizzes, Test, & More
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Looking for some fresh ideas to engage, challenge, and immerse your students in the amazing play The Crucible by Arthur Miller? This bundle has everything you need from start to finish!
✨✨✨THE CRUCIBLE ACTIVITIES BUNDLE (Includes 12 Different Activities!)
Pre-reading activities include:
❶ A history video viewing guide that corresponds with Salem Witch Trials documentary from the History Channel with answer key.
❷ a handout where students determine which information is true, false, or simply opinionated about the history of the Salem Witch Trials with answer key.
❸ Research task cards with topics pertaining to the history of the trials, and students research their particular topic, collaborate with others, and present findings to the class. It is important that students are familiar with the history of the trials before reading The Crucible play. This is a short task - not a long research lesson.
Post-reading activities include:
❹ A character brainstorming game that acts as review for the play and scaffolding for an essay. This game requires students to move, think, collaborate, write, and evaluate.
➎ Instructions for how to write an expository essay, expository essay assignment, scaffolding tasks, and rubric
❻ Creative conflict map requiring students to think thoroughly and analytically. Examples included.
❼ Crucibles in Life competition - links today's crucibles to those in Puritan times. Suggested answers included.
❽ A list of 6 of differentiated project choices with detailed instructions for each choice.
❾ Primary historical documents exploration to complete an incident report where students go straight to the court documents of Salem. to look for charges, witnesses, and evidence. This is print and go ready with an instruction sheet for students and an incident report to complete.
❿ Hands-on plot activity - students cut the events apart and put them in the correct acts in order of occurrence as review.
❶❶ Visual literacy practice- students look at political cartoons from McCarthy era and determine their relevance to the Salem trials. An interactive discussion option is included.
❶ ❷Fact or Fiction task were students compare the play to real historical events and hypothesize why Miller made those changes.
❤️I have also included a character list with student selection questions to make assigning roles easier.
❤️Common Core Standards are aligned for each of the 12 activities.
✨✨✨THE CRUCIBLE CREATIVE READING GUIDES
►2 slides/pages dedicated to each act.
►The questions cover the acts thoroughly and ask students to comprehend, infer, analyze, and synthesize information.
►Google Slides already have text boxes included. They are share and go! Use with phones, tablets, computers, etc.
►Answer key
►Printable PDF is in black and white for easy printing. It is print and go!
►Vocabulary
►A file with the colorful guides in picture format for you to add to your own password-protected online classroom if you are not using Google Slides.
✨✨✨THE CRUCIBLE QUIZZES
►Comprehension quizzes for all 4 acts. (2 versions - answers scrambled - for each quiz on the 4 acts of this play to deter cheaters or give different quizzes to different classes. Each quiz has 10 multiple-choice and 5 true/false questions._
►Challenging quizzes for all 4 acts. (2 versions - answers scrambled - for each quiz on the 4 acts of this play. Act 1 has 12 questions, Act 2 has 10, Act 3 has 12, and Act 4 has 10.)
►Answer keys
►Editable PowerPoint
►Each quiz takes up one page for easy printing.
✨✨✨THE CRUCIBLE STUDENT-CENTERED REVIEW GAME
►78 question cards with answers
►rules handout
►blank cards if you wish to add some questions
Just print and cut, hand out to the students, and they do the work! They read the rule sheet, they call out the questions, and they keep up with the points. They can enjoy competing against each other, and the best thing is they are reviewing the entire play while having fun. Since they will be engaged, you can relax a bit! You deserve it!
✨✨✨THE CRUCIBLE FINAL TEST
►Variety of questions
20 Multiple-choice questions
20 True/False questions
20 Matching people to their descriptors
1 short answer list
1 short essay (paragraph length)
►editable PowerPoint
►2 versions with scrambled answers to deter cheaters
►Answer Key
►Student answer sheet so you can reuse the test if you wish
❤️This BUNDLE has everything you need to thoroughly teach The Crucible. Your students will love the variety of unique, engaging activities, and you will enjoy stress-free planning with everything ready at your finger tips!
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