The Crucible: Character (for Mrs. Gillmore - Author/Arthur) Inferences

 Mrs. Gillmore's Assigned Character/Author:  Arthur Miller

Text:  Arthur Crucible on "Why I Wrote The Crucible"

Paragraph Assignment:

1. Topic Sentence
2. Two Chunk A
3. Concluding Sentence

Annotations:

• Highlight sentences two and five in yellow
• Bold two vocab and their synonyms
• Underline two appositive phrases (minimum of five words each!)

SAMPLE TOPIC SENTENCE

• Role of character     influenced/determined/impacted      character traits.
• Character traits        influenced/determined/impacted     role of character

      Playwright Arthur Miller, an author during the time of the Red Scare in the 1950s, inspired by these true events, purposefully wrote The Crucible as a genre of historical nonfiction. 

CHUNK B (FDR): Due to his then current involvement of being summoned to appear before a senate committee, Miller was experiencing some insinuations into his and friends of his involvement in Communism. This means... For example,   

CHUNK A (SP+verb+"E"): In addition, according to the article "Why I Wrote The Crucible," published in The New Yorker in 1996, Miller also wrote The Crucible, as he justifies, "I was also drawn into writing “The Crucible” by the chance it gave me to use a new language—that of seventeenth-century New England."

• This means the character trait of _____________________ made possible Miller's role....
• Sentence 2

Based on this evidence, Miller did have parallels in his own life that would have inspired his historical fiction connection to the witchcraft in 1692.

        Playwright Arthur Miller, an author during the time of the Red Scare in the 1950s, inspired by these true events, purposefully wrote The Crucible as a genre of historical nonfiction. CHUNK B (FDR): Due to his then current involvement of being summoned to appear before a senate committee, Miller was experiencing some insinuations into his and friends of his involvement in Communism. This means... For example,   CHUNK A (SP+verb+"E"): In addition, according to the article "Why I Wrote The Crucible," published in The New Yorker in 1996, Miller also wrote The Crucible, as he justifies, "I was also drawn into writing “The Crucible” by the chance it gave me to use a new language—that of seventeenth-century New England."   This means the character trait of _____________________ made possible Miller's role....  Sentence 2..... Based on this evidence, Miller did have parallels in his own life that would have inspired his historical fiction connection to the witchcraft in 1692.