Which Witch?
1692 in colonial Massachussetts.
What is the setting?
Both readings have this phenomenon in common.
What is mass hysteria?
The "monsters" on Maple Street.
What are aliens?
Can be limited or omniscient.
What is third person point of view?
"Baby, you're a firework."
What is a metaphor?
True or false: An actual witch was discovered.
What is false?
The characters/people in both texts share this common emotion.
1960's on Maple Street.
What is the setting?
The time and place of a story.
What is setting?
"Just own the night like the Fourth of July"
What is a simile?
The primary targets of the witch-hunt.
Who were poor women?
These are the real monsters of both readings.
What are humans?
This character is shot by Charlie.
Who is Pete Van Horn?
This is the direct or indirect message of a text that an author states about a given topic.
What is the theme?
"Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go."
What is personification?
Did the author write The Salem Witch Trials to entertain, inform, amuse, or deceive?
What is inform?
What incidence of mass hysteria spread in the United States in 2016?
What are killer clown sightings?
After a flying object cuts off the power to a neighborhood, neighbors accuse each other of being aliens until someone is murdered. The neighborhood then self destructs as part of an alien's plan.
What is a summary of the play?
When making one of these, we use background knowledge and evidence.
What is an inference?
"'Cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles
if I could just see you tonight."
What is hyperbole?
Accusations of witchcraft create mass hysteria in a colonial village that leads to the execution of twenty people.
What is a summary of the text?
This is a lesson both authors teach us about mass hysteria.
What is the fact that society can be swept by prejudiced claims that lead to the harm of innocent people?
Prejudice can kill and suspicion can destroy.
What is the theme?
This is the genre of an informational or expository text.
What is nonfiction?
"They paved paradise and put up a parking lot."
What is alliteration?