English 3: Crucible

There is a special section on Miller's The Crucible entitled Literature Connections which provides interesting analysis and activities on the many parallels between 1692 and 1952.

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Arthur Miller & The Crucible

• American National Biography 920.073 AME
• American Writers, v. 2  810.9 AME
• Authors & Artists for Young Adults  809 AUT
• Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, 1941-1968  810.092 CON
• Current Biography, 1940-present  920 CUR
• Drama for Students  809.2 DRA
• Encyclopedia of World Biography  920 ENC
• Great American Writers of the Twentieth Century  810.9 GRE
• Literature & Its Times  809.93358 LIT

McCarthyism & The Red Scare

• America in the 20th Century, 1950-1959, v. 6  973.9 AME
• American Decades, 1950-1959  973.9 AME
• History in Dispute: American Social and Political Movements, 1900-1945, v. 3  973.91 HIS
• Postwar America  973.92 SIT
• U.S.A. 1950s  973.921 USA
• UXL Encyclopedia of U.S. History  973.03 BEN

Salem Witch Trial & Others

• Witchcraft  133.4303 NET
• Witchcraft in America  133.430973 SAA
• Witches & Witchcraft  133.4303 GUI

 L.A. Riots (1992) – racial strife surrounding the alleged L.A.P.D beating of Rodney King

Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Sandy – be sure to discuss the aftermath

September 11, 2001 - Homeland Security, The Patriot Act, the aftermath. How did it affect us?

Mad Cow Disease – swept over Europe and threatened U.S.

AIDS – virus that emerged and evoked mass hysteria in the 80’s

War of the Worlds – on October 30^th,1938, the U.S. experienced mass hysteria in response to a radio broadcast put on by Orson Wells.

Y2K  – the new millennium, 2000

Red Scare (McCarthyism) – a period of intense anti-communism occurred in the U.S. from 1948 to about 1956

Japanese internment camps– following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December, 1941, 12,000 people of Japanese ancestry were taken and sent to camps

Anthrax – anonymous letters laced with anthrax were sent out across the United States shortly after 9/11

Ebola Outbreak (2014) - Africa and America

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