CRM 2.1 - Analyzing Author’s Choices, Structure, and Multiple Mediums

Multiple Choice

Use the attached picture to help you complete this bell work activity. 

What will we be learning in this unit?

• Argumentative writing

• Analyzing Interpretations of a story or drama in multiple mediums. 

• Analyzing speeches for rhetorical devices and modes of persuasion.

• Persuasive writing. 

Multiple Choice

Use the attached picture to complete this bell work activity.

What is the topic of today’s lesson?

• The Art of Persuasion

• Elements of a Story

• Rhetorical Devices Use In Barack Obama's DNC Speech

• Analyzing Multiple Interpretations of The Crucible

Multiple Choice

Reflect on when we did source transformations in September, and when you learnt about multiple mediums in grade 10.

True/false - When a story or drama is interpreted differently from the original text, the characters and meaning will always change too.

• True

• False

​In Your Notebooks

​Write down the question and your response to #3

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​True or false, when a story or drama is interpreted differently from the original text, the characters and meaning will always change too.

​Multiple Interpretations vs Source Transformations

​What do you think the difference is between the two?

CRM 2.1 - Analyzing Author’s Choices, Structure, and Multiple Mediums

by Kaycia White

​For Today's Class:

• ​This unit is called CRM 2.1 Analyzing Author's Choices, Structure and Multiple Mediums

• The topic for today's class is: Analyzing Multiple Interpretations of The Crucible

• ​Text being used is a play called The Crucible

• ​In this unit we will look at how the same story or drama can be interprited in different mediums (ways). For this class, we will look at the original play The Crucible, the movie The Crucible and pictures shown in the HRM text book.

​Essential Standard

• ​RL3.7 Analyze multiple interpretations of a story or drama.

​Learning Goal:

• ​At the end of this class, you should be able to say how each source portrays the character Abigail, and the point of view from which each interpretation is given.

​About The Crucible

• ​The play was written in 1952 by Arthur Miller

• ​The story is set in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692​ during the Salem witch trials.

• ​In a nutshell, the story is about a young girl Abigail who has an affair with an older married man called John Proctor. Abigail and a groub of girls followed a Barbadian slave called Tituba, into the forest to practice witch craft. After this ritual, Betty, one of the girls got sick. In an effort to have John Proctor's wife executed so that she could have him to herself, Abigail tells many lies and manipulates all the people in the town who are very gullible.

​Task 1

​Participate in/ follow along the reading of the play. We are reading from the right hand column of your handout ('modern English' side). And answer the questions on this quizizz lesson when prompted after each chunk.

Multiple Choice

True or False, Abigail is lying about seeing the bird. 

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

True or false, the girls planned to lie about being possessed?

• True

• False

Poll

Make a prediction, since the girls are lying on Mary, what do you think Mary will do to save herself?

• Continue to be truthful and risk being hung as a witch.

• Join the girls and put the blame of being a witch on someone else

Multiple Select

Select the words that best describes Abigail.

• honest

• loyal

• manipulative

• deceitful

Multiple Choice

Complete the sentence:

At this point Proctor has

• given up. 

• is confessing to wrong doing. 

• is about to join the girls in lying. 

Multiple Choice

Based on the excerpt that we have read, what point of view is being used?

• First Person

• Third Person Limited

• Third Person Omniscient 

​Task 2

​Watch the video clip from the movie.

Multiple Choice

In the video clip from the movie, what point of view is being used?

• first person

• third person limited

• third person omniscient 

• second person

Multiple Choice

Does the movie depict Abigail the same way the play does, as deceitful and manipulative?

• no

• yes

​Task 3

​Look at the production images (pictures) on page 545. In the first picture on the page:

1. Which one do you think is Abigail?

2. Is it possible to tell point of view in a picture?

​In your notebooks write:

​1. The correct answer to the #3 bell work.

​2. Say why you now know that the point of view and characters can remain the same in multiple interpretations of a text.

​3. Say how interpretation in multiple mediums is different from source transformation.