Witch-Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials

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Witch-Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials

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This study guide is designed to enhance students' mastery of key content and skills in social studies, language arts, and other disciplines through examination of the Salem Witch Trials. The lessons will compliment curriculum in the social studies, particularly early colonial American history and McCarthyism, but also language arts, focusing on Arthur Millers portrait of the psychology of witch-hunts, The Crucible. Each lesson is designed with multiple objectives in mind, to make the most efficient use of teacher's time.

Education Levels:

9, 10, 11, 12

Subject:

United States History, Literature

Resource Type:

Unit of instruction

Fee Status:

Free

Online provider:

MarcAronson.com

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Keywords:

Puritans, McCarthyism, Salem, Massachusetts, Trials, Miller, Arthur, Witches

Mediator:

Secondary school teachers

Publisher:

MarcAronson.com

Contributor:

Jean M. West

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http://www.marcaronson.com/

Language:

English

Subjects/Topics

P21 Subject:

History, Language Arts, English

Learning Outcomes:

Conforms To

Colorado Model Content Standards Science, Amended 2-8-07 (1995)

Standard 5: Students understand that the nature of science involves a particular way of building knowledge and making meaning of the natural world.

5. scientific knowledge changes and accumulates over time; usually the changes that take place are small modifications of prior knowledge but major shifts in the scientific view of how the world works do occur

Conforms To

Georgia Science Performance Standards (2006)

Chemistry

Co-Requisite – Characteristics of Science

The Nature of Science

Students will analyze how scientific knowledge is developed.

c. From time to time, major shifts occur in the scientific view of how the world works. More often, however, the changes that take place in the body of scientific knowledge are small modifications of prior knowledge. Major shifts in scientific views typically occur after the observation of a new phenomenon or an insightful interpretation of existing data by an individual or research group.

Conforms To

New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards for Social Studies (2009)

6.1 U.S. History: America in the World. All students will acquire the knowledge and skills to think analytically about how past and present interactions of people, cultures, and the environment shape the American heritage. Such knowledge and skills enable students to make informed decisions that reflect fundamental rights and core democratic values as productive citizens in local, national, and global communities.

Colonization and Settlement (1585-1763)

1. Colonization and Settlement

North American Colonial societies adapted European governmental, economic, and cultural institutions and ideologies to meet their needs in the New World.

A. Civics, Government, and Human Rights

Analyze how gender, property ownership, religion, and legal status affected political rights.

Conforms To

National Science Education Standards (1995)

Content Standard G: History and Nature of Science

Nature of Scientific Knowledge

Science distinguishes itself from other ways of knowing and from other bodies of knowledge through the use of empirical standards, logical arguments, and skepticism, as scientists strive for the best possible explanations about the natural world.

Conforms To

Tennessee English Language Arts Standards (2009)

English IV

Standard 4: Research

Course Level Expectations

Gather relevant information from a variety of sources, including, but not limited to, print, electronic, interviews, direct observations, and surveys.

This data provided by the Achievement Standards Network

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