Tuesday, November 18th

Essay tests due!

Assignments handed back, time for general questions about grades, etc.
After handing in essays, students responded to the following quote:

"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one!"

From Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, a popular history of popular folly by Charles Mackay, first published in 1841

The responses must include: 1) what the quote means, 2) how this quote could be related to The Crucible, and 3) how it applies or what it means to you, as an individual.

After students write for 20 minutes, each student will share one thought from their response paper. When everyone has shared, we will discuss the phenomena of mass hysteria and what they, as students have learned about hysteria, in general, from this unit.

Students are released to the library to return their copies of the play.