As a busy teacher, you don t have time to waste reinventing the wheel...you want to get down to the business of teaching! With Secondary Solutions Common Core and NCTE/IRA Standards-Based teacher-written Literature Guides, you can address the English/Language Arts content standards while you teach the required core literature! Our practical, fully-reproducible Guides have everything for student and teacher in ONE Guide..no need to purchase both a student and teacher edition! No wasted "white" space, no repetitive worksheets with questions and answers that take up page after page, and no juvenile pictures! Just high-quality, teacher-developed materials that help you get the most out of your time in the classroom.
This Secondary Solutions Literature Guide for The Crucible by Arthur Miller includes 72 pages of student coursework, activities, quizzes, tests, and much more aligned with the Common Core State Standards and NCTE/IRA National ELA Standards for tenth through twelfth grade.
This Literature Guide includes:
Author Biography
Prior Knowledge Assessment Activity
Notes on Elements of Drama
Articles on Historical Context, including Historical Accuracy, The New England Primer, Chronology of Events of the Salem Witch Trials, Witchcraft in New England, and Puritan Religion and Beliefs
Vocabulary List With and Without Definitions
Note-Taking and Summarizing Guides
Standards Focus Activities on Characterization, Character Relationships, Types of Conflict, Irony, Tragedy and the Tragic Hero, and more
Comprehension Check Questions for Each Act
Assessment Preparation Activities on Word Parts, Vocabulary in Context, Word Roots, and Connotation
Reading Quizzes for Each Act
Vocabulary Quizzes for Each Act
Two Final Exam Versions
Summary of the Play
Pre-reading, Post-Reading, and Essay/Writing Ideas and Activities
Project and Response to Literature Rubrics
Complete Answer Key
Common Core Standards Alignment documents available on the Secondary Solutions website at www{dot}4secondarysolutions{dot}com.
Kristen Bowers is a former English teacher and the founder and President of Secondary Solutions. She has written over 15 books, including Literature Guides for Of Mice and Men, Brave New World, To Kill a Mockingbird, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and more, as well as two essay writing Guides: Essay Apprentice and Essay Architect. In 2005, Mrs. Bowers became frustrated and tired of writing her own worksheets, quizzes, tests, and activities to teach her students the required literature and the content standards on which her students were being tested at the district and state levels. At the time, resources and tools that were available for purchase were not up to her high standards of teaching, so she decided to create these materials herself.
Mrs. Bowers set to work to create one of the most comprehensive and innovative Literature Guide sets on the market. Joined by a middle school teacher with 21 years of secondary school experience, Secondary Solutions began, and has since matured into a specialized team of intermediate and secondary teachers who have developed a set of Literature and Writing Guides unsurpassed by all others.
