Web Quest
BY
Christine
Driscoll
Cdemarsico31469@cs.com
The
Crucible
Introduction
Welcome
to your WebQuest on The Crucible. After reading the article in The New York Times, you discovered that
if the Salem Witch Trials had occurred after the enactment of the U.S.
Constitution, they would indeed be unconstitutional. The lives of many men and women were brutally
taken due to this mass hysteria. They
were publicity embarrassed as well as imprisoned and even sentenced to
death. These trials even today are
haunting the American people. Imagine
discovering that you are related to one of the victims sentenced to death due
to the public opinion on witch craft. How would you demonstrate your ancestor's
rights under our Constitution and Supreme Court decisions were violated?
The
Task
How
could the Constitution and the Supreme Court have protected the innocent from
being accused of witchcraft and sentenced to death?
1.
You will analyze amendments 5 and 6 of the Bill of Rights in order to fully
understand due process.
2. Then, you will find a case to help prove your
argument.
3. You will be assigned a character from The Crucible and prove that your
character’s due process rights under today’s constitutional safeguards were
violated and should be given restitution.
4. You will take a virtual tour of
5. You will create a timeline in order to
fully comprehend the historical events.
6. Finally, you create an essay explaining how
your character’s due process rikghts were violated and
present it to the class.
The
Process and Resources:
1. You
will take a virtual tour of
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/salem/
2.
You will research actual events from the
http://www.
salemwitchtrials.com/salemwitchcraft.html
Then they will take the quiz at the
end of the class.
3.
You will be put into groups, assigned a character, and then create a timeline
using the notes from the previous day.
Group 1-Sarah Good
Group 2-Rebecca Nurse
Group 3-Giles Corey
Group 4-Martha Corey
Group 5-John Proctor
4.
Members of each group will be assigned these parts:
A. Leader-Assigns tasks, assists all members, keeps
group on task, and leads in the discussion with the class.
B. Researcher-Two students who have computer access
will be
Responsible
for all additional research and share the information with group members.
C. Artist-Creates timeline, completes
a master Venn diagram and must explain it in group discussion.
D. Recorder-Takes notes throughout
discussion. Prepares the final copy of the essay proving their character’s
innocence.
All
members must have rough copies or notes on the daily discussion and fully
comprehend the details of the essay in case they are questioned during class
discussion.
5. Create
an outline on the specific laws then apply these laws to the
A. What is Due Process?
B. What phrase is contained in
amendments 5 and 14?
C. What other amendments were violated
in the actual process of condemning these witches? How do these amendments protect the
persecution of innocent people?
D. You will use CompuLEGAL to
analyze the following cases involving due process violations and use that
analysis in your essay. Follow the
directions to complete the online CompuLEGAL analysis for both cases and
answer the follow-up questions at the end of CompuLEGAL in your journal:
2. Mapp
v. Ohio
E. You will submit an Ask-LEGAL-Eagle
question about due process related to Miranda or Map. (All
students must agree that the question will help in their paper.)
6.
You will research an individual character and analyze how the character was not
given a fair trial. Take notes and
compare your notes to the laws.
http://www.earlyameric.com/review/summer97/carey.html
http://www.etext.lib.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/texts
http://www.curriculumunits.com/cruciblebackground/frameline.html
http://www.witchcraft.simplenet.com/hysteria.html
http://discoveryschool.com/salem
7. Use
evidence from the novel to express the characterization of your character.
8.
The essay will be presented as follows:
P1-Who is your character?
Why were they accused?
Why were they not given a fair trial?
P2- What is due process?
How your character was denied these
rights? (Use compulegal here)
P3- How did the mass hysteria of
P4-Using examples from the novel,
explain how your character fit into the social structure of the town.
P5- Why do you believe your character
was innocent? (Find pictures to enhance your presentation.)
P6-What specific evidence from the
trial directly violated the Due Process of the law.
P7-Closing arguments-why should your
character by exonerated by the court.
9.
Each group will present report to the class and share all graphic organizers.
10.
Each student in their journal will discuss how their group functioned and hand
in a self evaluation with the grade that you believe your group deserves with a
reason.
Evaluation
Outstanding
A well written essay without grammatical
errors, typed and addressing all of the above mentioned criteria.
All members fully understand
all points in the paper as they present the paper to the class.
Have a well-designed
time-line and graphic organizer.
Completed the journals and
has notes to explain the process.
Have an extensive
self-evaluation
Above Average-
A well written essay that has
a few errors, addressing all of the above mentioned criteria.
Understand most of the
concepts on your group essay.
Have a well-designed
time-line and graphic organizer
Completed
Self-evaluation
Completed all journals and
notes
Average-
A well written essay that has some
errors, missing points from the above mentioned criteria.
Have a time-line and a graphic-organizer.
Completed some journals and
has some notes
Completed a short
self-evaluation.
Below average
Absent many days
Did not cooperate with group
Has no idea what is in the
group essay
Did few or no journals or
notes
Did not complete a
self-evaluation
Addresses
these NYS Language Arts Requirements-
Part One-Listening and writing for
understanding
Presenting to a group
Part
Two-Examining documents
Part
Three- Reading and writing for critical analysis
Conclusion
What
should be done to keep the innocent from being accused and presumed guilty?
How
did the Salem Witch Trials affect history?
Based
on the facts, do you believe there have been other Witches tried since 1692?
Works Cited
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Project Legal by James Carroll
Pictures by discoverschool.com