1. Write the paragraph that you were SUPPOSED TO WRITE this weekend!!!! It will be collected tomorrow and will count as a QUIZ grade!
2. Find 10 quotes from the first 24 pages of The Crucible and translate them into modern, formal language. Bring this to class tomorrow! It will count as a HW grade!!!
REMEMBER: HARD IS THE WALL, DIFFICULT IS THE TASK! HANGED IS THE PERSON, HUNG IS THE PICTURE!!!
Woohoo, finally got this thing to work! Would you like the original sentence in archaic too?
ReplyDeleteAll you have to do is rewrite the dialogue into a modern, understandable form of the English language. Good luck! :)
ReplyDeletethe english languge is hard =(
ReplyDeleteIt is complicated to understand how to use a blog! :( :(
ReplyDeleteI LOVE HOW YOU ALL TEASE ME!!!!
ReplyDeleteIs it OK to post the answers to the Homework on the blog?
ReplyDeleteYou can post your paragraph. Please do not post the answers to the ditto. :)
ReplyDeleteIt took me about twenty minutes to figure out how to figure out how to accept that invitation but my computer was being dumb. It made my life "difficult".
ReplyDeleteUhm, in class, you were talking about how Abigail was supposed to come off as more evil, but I see her as more innocent...Am I reading it wrong?
ReplyDeleteNick, I'm sorry I made you life so difficult.
ReplyDeleteDakota, you may have interpreted that way and that is fine as well.
In the first part of the play, Abigail makes a strong first impression. When Reverend Parris is asking her about what happened the night before in the woods, she tells him that they danced and sang songs, but nothing ever really happened that was too bad. She swears that "She [Tituba] always sings Barbados songs, and we dance". Also, when Parris tells her that someone was running around naked and he saw a dress, Abigail responded innocently, "A dress?". However, after the Reverend leaves and it is just Mercy, Abigail, Betty and Mary Warren in the room, the real truth started to come out more. For example, there is one point where Betty suddenly "wakes up" and she starts yelling at Abigail saying that she didn't tell Reverend Parris about drinking the blood. Betty says "You did, you did! You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!" After that, Abigail hits Betty across the face and says "Shut it, shut it". This shows that Abigail doesn't want anyone to know the truth and maybe she even knows that she did something wrong, she just doesn't want to admit it. Abigail begins to threaten the girls by saying "...Let either of you breathe a word...about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you..." Later in the Act, John Proctor enters and he and Abigail act very intimate with each other. This could mean that Abigail could be trying to do him harm because she knowingly killed his wife. She could have killed Goody Proctor so that she would be his one and only love.
ReplyDeleteMrs. Thompson, who taught you how to use the exclamation point key?
ReplyDeleteMrs. Thompson, You are amazing! "Knibb High Football Rules!"
ReplyDeleteFred, is this reference to Billy Madison telling me that I had made an "insanely idiotic" rant today, "rambling incoherent thought[s]" that "made everyone in the room dumber for having listened to it"?????
ReplyDeleteMrs Thompson, im blogging in my boxers with a cup of tea...figured that you would liek to know since you thought of it
ReplyDeleteummmmm yea
ReplyDeletei think i should write something but am not quite sure what to write
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ReplyDeleteAbigail comes off as a strong personality. The first time the dialogue starts up, she is defending herself and telling her uncle what he did and did not see. “No one was naked! You mistake yourself uncle!” She does not seem to have much respect for her uncle and is lying to his face convincing him he did not see what he saw with his own two eyes. Abigail is also very mean to her friends. Like when Betty wakes on page 19, she makes comments on Betty’s dead mother, and starts threatening Betty, “Betty, you never say that again! You will never-,” Then she strikes Betty across the face and yells, “Shut it! Now shut it!” This was about Abigail drinking blood to kill Goody Proctor, John Proctors wife. Abigail overall seems like an evil person because of her actions, performing a charm to kill Goody proctor, hitting Betty, and lying to Parris’ face.
ReplyDeleteYes Mrs. Thompson. "I award you no points, may god have mercy on your soul."
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