The Crucible

The Crucible by Arthur Miller - Audiobook available in the CHS library.

Poetry (choose 2 or 3)

• "The Wayfarer" by Stephen Crane
• "Invictus" by William Ernest Henley
• The Afflicted Girls by Nicole Cooley (poetry book) - Available in the CHS library
• "I Stood Upon a High Place" by Stephen Crane

Shakespearean Tie-ins / Extensions (choose 1)

• Act II, Scene III A Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare "A woman falsely accused"
• Act IV, Scene IV from Hamlet by William Shakespeare, "How all occasions do inform against me"
• "Sonnet 70" by William Shakespeare (how being slandered doesn't outweigh virtue)
• Teacher selected sonnets or scenes

Short Fiction (choose 1)

• "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne Audio

Multimedia

• "The Crucible" (film) - Available in the CHS library
• "Mean Girls" (film) - Available in the CHS library
• "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast excerpt, by Orson Welles/Mercury Theatre Apology

Historical Nonfiction (choose 1 or 2)

• Excerpt from "Wonders of the Invisible World" (text version) PDF by Cotton Mather (teacher selected)
• "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" excerpt by Jonathan Edwards
• "The Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom" by Thomas Jefferson
• "Letter to the Danbury Baptists" by Thomas Jefferson
• Excerpt from "Transcripts of the McCarthy Hearings" (teacher selected) Video 1 - "Have you no sense of decency?" Video 2 - Edward R. Murrow statement

Contemporary Nonfiction (choose 1 or 2)

• "Conversion Disorder: An Epidemic Spread by Sight"
• "War of the Worlds: Behind the 1938 Radio Show Panic" by National Geographic
• "A Hearing to Ask: Are Muslims Being Radicalized?" by Barbara Bradley Hagerty
• "The American Muslim Response to Hearings on Radicalization Within Their Community"
• "Everything Isn't Racial Profiling" by Linda Chavez

Multimedia

• Salem Witch Hunt Interactive Website by National Geographic

The library also recommends:

Documentaries/Movies:

• Salem Witch Trials from History Channel (50 mins)
• "Salem Witch Trials" from Unsolved History by History Channel
• "Three Sovereigns for Sarah"
• "Hidden Figures"
• "Slumdog Millionaire"
• "Race" (Jesse Owens biopic)

Short Videos:

• Salem Witch Trials from History Channel (3 minutes)
• Causes of Salem Witch Trials from History Channel (2 minutes)

Websites:

• The Salem Witchcraft Trials from University of Missouri Law School

Articles:

• The Crucible from Literature and Its Times
• Arthur Miller from Major 21st Century Writers
• Salem Witch Trials from West's Encyclopedia of American Law
• Salem Witch Trials and Executions from Witchcraft in America
• McCarthyism from the International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences

Short Articles:

• Misogyny, Ergot or Envy? from The Economist
• Cruel and Unusual: Why Prisoners Shouldn't Pay Their Way from American Heritage
• The Witch Within Me: What I Learned from a Medieval Book About the "Evilness of Women" from Time
• Tituba from Witchcraft in America
• Witchcraft in America - Contains a variety of articles and biographies of all the "major players"
• Cotton Mather from the Encyclopedia of World Biography
• 10 Cases of Mass Hysteria from HowStuffWorks
• What is Collective Hysteria? from HowStuffWorks

Books:

• Witch and Wizard by James Patterson
• The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
• Witch Child by Celia Rees