CRM 2.1 - Analyzing Author’s Choices, Structure, and Multiple Mediums

​Write down the question and your response to #3

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​True or false, when a story or drama is interpreted differently from the original text, the characters and meaning will always change too.

​What do you think the difference is between the two?

by Kaycia White

• ​This unit is called CRM 2.1 Analyzing Author's Choices, Structure and Multiple Mediums

• The topic for today's class is: Analyzing Multiple Interpretations of The Crucible

• ​Text being used is a play called The Crucible

• ​In this unit we will look at how the same story or drama can be interprited in different mediums (ways). For this class, we will look at the original play The Crucible, the movie The Crucible and pictures shown in the HRM text book.

• ​RL3.7 Analyze multiple interpretations of a story or drama.

• ​At the end of this class, you should be able to say how each source portrays the character Abigail, and the point of view from which each interpretation is given.

• ​The play was written in 1952 by Arthur Miller

• ​The story is set in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692​ during the Salem witch trials.

• ​In a nutshell, the story is about a young girl Abigail who has an affair with an older married man called John Proctor. Abigail and a groub of girls followed a Barbadian slave called Tituba, into the forest to practice witch craft. After this ritual, Betty, one of the girls got sick. In an effort to have John Proctor's wife executed so that she could have him to herself, Abigail tells many lies and manipulates all the people in the town who are very gullible.

​Participate in/ follow along the reading of the play. We are reading from the right hand column of your handout ('modern English' side). And answer the questions on this quizizz lesson when prompted after each chunk.

​Watch the video clip from the movie.

​Look at the production images (pictures) on page 545. In the first picture on the page:

1. Which one do you think is Abigail?

2. Is it possible to tell point of view in a picture?

​1. The correct answer to the #3 bell work.

​2. Say why you now know that the point of view and characters can remain the same in multiple interpretations of a text.

​3. Say how interpretation in multiple mediums is different from source transformation.