Tasks:
- Identify reasons and evidence that could be used to support inquiry: Was New England a City on the Hill?
- Analysis of Salem Witch Trials - Why did people go on a witch hunt in 1692?
- Contextualize Salem in 1692 by identifying who, what, where, when of witch hunt and provide definition of witchcraft
- Small group discussion: What does this data reveal about what is happening in Salem?
- Debrief data in order to determine the reasons why a witch hunt occurred in Salem in 1692.
Reminders:
- Test Corrections due 9/9
- AP Guest Speaker September 8 at 3:00pm at West.
- Transportation is not provided; you will have to find your way to West.
- Extra credit opportunity (possibility for 2% addition to your final grade)
Additional Resources:
- Salem Witch Trial website
- Books that might be of interest in learning more about the Salem Witch Trials
- Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and Culture in Early New England by John Demos
- The Devil in Massachusetts by Marion Starkey
- Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum
- The data in class came from this historical account.
- Devil in the Shape of a Woman by Carol Karlsen
