Informative Text and Text-Based Evidence

What theory do you believe caused the witchcraft accusations in Salem?

• Theory #1: A Disease

• Theory #2: Jealousy

• Theory #3: Strict Rules

• Theory #4: Strict Adherence to their Religion

Answer explanation

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What did you struggle with most in the Salem Witchcraft Trials investigation?

• Identifying evidence

• Understanding vocabulary

• Explaining the evidence

• All of the above

Answer explanation

You are doing great!

What is a claim?

• The first sentence of the introductory paragraph that can be argued.

• A statement at the beginning of the introductory paragraph.

• The last sentence of the introductory paragraph, also known as the thesis statement, that can be argued.

• A statement at the end of the introductory paragraph.

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Define text-based evidence.

• Facts from the text that support your answer or reasoning

• Your opinion on the text that supports your answer or reasoning

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"Just keep swimming, just keep swimming!" - Dory

Which of the following is evidence that strict adherence to religion could have caused the accusations?

• Church attendance should be mandatory.

• I believe the church was too strict on the Puritans.

• Puritans believed in the devil, and they believed that witches worked with the devil to cause harm and do evil.

• The symptoms that the girls complained about were similar to the symptoms of ergotism.

Answer explanation

Keep up the hard work!

Define paraphrasing

• Copying a text word for word

• Rewriting or restating a text in your own words

• Changing the word order of the text.

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What is the correct paraphrasing of the quote from Theory 3?

"Girls, however, had no similar escape; they tended to the house, helped their mothers cook dinner, wash bedding, and sew fabric" (citation).

• Girls, however, had no similar escape; they tended to the house, helped their mothers cook, wash bedding, and sew fabric (citation).

• Unlike the boys, the girls were unable to get out of the house. In Salem, girls were responsible for learning how to do chores around the house including how to cook and clean (citation).

• Girls tended to the house and helped their mothers sew fabric, cook, and wash bedding. They had no similar escape (citation).

Answer explanation

One step at a time!

Define direct citations or quotations

• When you take the exact words from one text and place them in your own writing without quotation marks.

• When you restate a text in your own words

• When you take the exact words from one text and place them in your own writing with quotation marks.

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What is NOT an example of a quote from the four theories?

• "Some historians believe the girls contracted ergotism, a form of poisoning caused by the ingestion of rye grain containing the fungus known as ergot" (citation).

• Church attendance was mandatory in Puritan society, and the Puritans could be punished for not attending (citation).

• "Puritan boys and girls had little opportunity to excite their imagination" (citation).

• "The accusers (those who called people witchers) lived in Salem Village, while those who were accused lived along Ipswich Road, the dividing line between the Village and the Town" (citation).

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Keep up the hard work!

True or False: If I paraphrase a text, I do not need to cite it.

• True

• False

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