U3L1 Vocab

Rye was a common grain used for bread in the community, and ergot is a fungus that can cause hallucinations when eaten.

• Rye Ergot 
• Mass Hysteria

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

Occurred during the 1950s and was the fear of communists in the United States.

• Mass Hysteria
• The Communist Red Scare

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

This was considered a type of dark magic that witches would use to hurt or destroy others. Many believed that witches worked hand and hand with the devil.

• Witchcraft 
• Spectral Evidence 

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

was a conflict of ideas that does not include actual military combat as the conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union over the spread of communism

• The Cold War
• The Communist Red Scare

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Evidence is based on dreams and visions. Witnesses could testify that they were visited by other people's spirits or specters even though the person was elsewhere. The accused person could have witnesses testifying that he or she was at home on a certain night, but their "specter" could move outside the physical body which prohibited someone from having an alibi.

• Spectral Evidence
• Mass Hysteria

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

Communism is a government where all decisions are made by the government, and the government is usually led by one powerful leader

• The Cold War
• Communist Government

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

A formal judgement of evidence, typically in front of a judge, to determine whether or not a person is guilty of an accused crime.

• Play
• Trial

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

is the acting out of play or story.

• Dramatization 
• Court Transcript

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

This is the recorded dialogue of a trial.

• Court Transcript
• Trial 

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

These trials developed in 1692 after a group of girls accused people of witchcraft.

• The Salem Witch Trials
• Witchcraft

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4