Hunting for Witches

	Hunting for Witches Intolerance, Persecution and Injustice in Salem and Beyond... The Salem Witch Trials "Today those who suffered persecution are viewed as victims of ignorance, intolerance and prejudice." Salem Wax Museum Text from Display
"The Towne Sisters" Plaster Statue in The Salem Wax Museum clip of photo taken by the author	Web Resources for Educators by Midge Frazel
Attention Students! For school projects, I suggest you contact the Director of Education at the Salem Witch Museum. Alison D'Amario faq@salemwitchmuseum.com

Hunting for Witches Web Hunt
Hunting for Witches Web Hunt (printable in Adobe Reader format) ...uses these four Web pages and a post activity
The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 http://www.salemwitchmuseum.com/education/	FAQs about The Salem Witch Trials http://www.salemwitchmuseum.com/ education/faq.shtml
Overview of The Salem Witch Trials http://www.iath.virginia.edu/ salem/further.html	An Account of the Events in Salem http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/ projects/ftrials/salem/SAL_ACCT.HTM
Post Activity: How Much Do You Know about The Salem Witch Trials? http://www.salemwitchtrials.com/quiz.html
Bewitching Experience Subject Sampler
Salem Witch Trials: The World Behind the Hysteria …from Discovery School http://school.discovery.com/schooladventures /salemwitchtrials/
Witchcraft Hysteria …from National Geographic http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ features/97/salem/	The Witches Curse …from PBS http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/ case_salem/index.html
Promoting Discussion: Puritanism and Predestination Promoting Discussion: Witchcraft in Salem Village: Intersections of Religion and Society
Linnda R. Caporael's Ergotism Article "Ergotism: The Satan Loosed in Salem?"
Post Activity: Create a Timeline of Events ...using information in these three Web links
Create a Timeline of Events http://www.salemwitchtrials.com/timeline.html
A Chronology of Events http://www.salemweb.com/memorial/	Another Chronology of Events http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty /projects/ftrials/salem/ASAL_CH.HTM
Literature Connections
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (Grade 5 and up)
Does reading historical fiction cloud or enhance your learning of this time period?
The Witch of Blackbird Pond Literature Learning Ladder http://eduscapes.com/newbery/59a.html	Consider The Source WebQuest http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools /brisas/sunda/webquest/considersource.htm
Virtual Tours and Web Museums
Salem: Take the Tour ...virtual tour of Salem today	The Salem Witch Trials Memorial http://www.salemweb.com/memorial/ ...three sections (stones, memorial and chronology)
The Salem City Guide: What About Witches http://www.salemweb.com/guide/witches.htm
Salem Witch Museum 1692 Washington Square, Salem, Massachusetts 01970	Jonathan Corwin's Home: The Witch House Route 114 and Essex Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
The House of the Seven Gables http://www.7gables.org	Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
Caught Up in Hysteria Scrapbook
Bridget Bishop: Portrait of a Witch Web Presentation by Midge Frazel
Group Project: Create a presentation using information and pictures about the people of this historical time period. ...use these first two links before creating your project
Researching the Salem Witch Trials Inference and Evidence Chart http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson_images/lesson440/worksheet.pdf
Important People Named in the Court Records http://www.iath.virginia.edu/salem/people.html
Rebecca Nurse Images http://www.iath.virginia.edu/salem /people/nursepics.html	17th Century American Architecture http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/ fnart/fa267/17house_p3.html
Rebecca Nurse Monument http://www.hawthorneinsalem.org/images /image.php?name=MMD1034	Rev. George Burroughs "Witchcraft Victims on the Way to the Gallows" http://www.iath.virginia.edu/salem/ people/burroughspics.html
Bridget Bishop Images http://www.iath.virginia.edu/salem/ people/bishopics.html	Giles Corey Images http://www.iath.virginia.edu/salem/ people/gcoreypics.html
George Jacobs, Sr. Images http://www.iath.virginia.edu/salem /people/gjacobspics.html	John Hathorne Images http://www.iath.virginia.edu/salem/ people/johnhathpics.html
Susannah Martin Images http://www.iath.virginia.edu/salem/ people/martinpics.html	Samuel Sewell Images http://www.iath.virginia.edu/salem/ people/sewallpics.html
Tituba Images http://www.iath.virginia.edu/salem /people/titubapics.html	The Scarlet Letter Images http://hawthorneinsalem.org/Literature/ NativeAmericans&Blacks/ ScarletLetter/Images.html
Working with Primary and Secondary Sources
Digital History: Witchcraft in Salem http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/ historyonline/us5.cfm ...interpreting Primary Sources	Digital History: The Puritan Mind http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/ historyonline/us4.cfm ...interpreting Primary Sources
Salem Witch Trial Documentary Archive and Transcription Project http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/	17th Century New England http://www.17thc.us/
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" Jonathan Edwards	Selected Poetry of Anne Bradstreet More on Anne Bradstreet 1612-1672 Index to Anne Bradstreet Perspectives in American Literature: Bradstreet
Famous American Trials: Salem 1692 University of Missouri Kansas City School of Law	Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases 1648-1706 "More Wonders of the Invisible World" by Robert Calef Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library
Petition for Bail from Accused Witches from Ipswitch, MA	Analyzing a Primary Source Rubric http://www.phschool.com/professional_development /assessment/rub_anaylyzing_prim_src.html
WebQuests
Project: Promoting Understanding by Critical Thinking using WebQuests
Section One: Learning About Intolerance (Past and Present)
Timely Tolerance http://www.education.ucsb.edu/ ucsbpt3/afield/teacher_projects/ daviebregante/t-webquest.htm	"Cause They Don't Look Like You" http://coe.west.asu.edu/students/ hlynch/ToleranceWebQuest/ tolerancewebqst.htm
Intolerance and Fear http://zonorus.marlboro.edu/ ~dnewton/webquest/webquest.htm	Remembering the Holocaust http://cte.jhu.edu/techacademy/ web/2000/baczkowski/intro.htm
Section Two: The Crucible and Beyond
Victims of Mass Hysteria http://kwhaley.20m.com/masshysteria.htm	The Crucible: Miller vs McCarthy http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics /education/projects/webquests/crucible/
Studying the Background of The Crucible http://www.teachtheteachers.org/projects/ AMoore/Crucible.htm	Witchcraft or Witch Hunt http://www.teachtheteachers.org/ projects/DJacobs/index.htm
Additional Information
Nathaniel Hawthorne's Neighborhood http://www.salemweb.com/tales/hawthorne1.shtml
Salem Witch Trials College Course with bibliography	The Crucible: Research Topics English Online in New Zealand Well designed Project Based High school Lesson Plan
Hawthorne Exhibit http://www.pem.org/library/hawthorne/	Teach Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlett Letter Eric Eldred
Salem Trials: The Crucible Grades 9-12 Discovery School Lesson Plan	The Age of McCarthyism http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/ 50s/schrecker-age.html
EDSITEment: Dramatizing History in The Crucible Lesson Plan Gr. 9-12
The Crucible and The McCarthy Era: A Pathfinder for Grade 11 http://www2.mcps.k12.md.us/schools/ wjhs/mediactr/englishpathfinder/crucible/index.html	Hysteria and Ideology in The Crucible The Literature and Culture of the American 1950s Alan Filreis's class at U. Penn

Genealogy
Susannah North Martin's Genealogy
Rebecca's Nurse's Ancestry at Genealogy.com
The Family of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Standards

Massachusetts English Language Arts Curriculum Frameworks
PreK-12 Standard 9: Making Connections Students will deepen their understanding
of a literary or non literary work by relating it to its
contemporary context or historical background.
Grades 9-10: Standard 9.6 Relate a literary work to primary source documents
from its historical period
Grades 11-12: Standard 9.7 Relate a literary work to the seminal ideas of its time

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Hunting for Witches
Intolerance, Persecution and Injustice
in Salem and Beyond...
The Salem Witch Trials
"Today those who suffered persecution are viewed
as victims of ignorance, intolerance and prejudice."
Salem Wax Museum Text from Display

Hunting for Witches
Intolerance, Persecution and Injustice
in Salem and Beyond...

Web Resources for Educators by Midge Frazel

Hunting for Witches Intolerance, Persecution and Injustice in Salem and Beyond... The Salem Witch Trials "Today those who suffered persecution are viewed as victims of ignorance, intolerance and prejudice." Salem Wax Museum Text from Display

Hunting for Witches Intolerance, Persecution and Injustice in Salem and Beyond...

Web Resources for Educators by Midge Frazel

Hunting for Witches
Intolerance, Persecution and Injustice
in Salem and Beyond...
The Salem Witch Trials
"Today those who suffered persecution are viewed
as victims of ignorance, intolerance and prejudice."
Salem Wax Museum Text from Display

Hunting for Witches
Intolerance, Persecution and Injustice
in Salem and Beyond...