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Essay Instructions: ***This essay is for a College Prep English Class****

TOPIC: A Five-paragraph essay on John Proctor from The Crucible by Arthur Miller. Essay needs to include the significant change John Proctor undergoes and what factors and motiviations contributed to this change.

*****First I need an outline in the format as follows:**********

Introduction: (reference "Title", Author, Characters and briefly preface the plot)

[Hook...]
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Thesis: (Your thesis should state whether the changes in your character redeem him/her) _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Body Paragraph 1

Transition + Topic Sentence (make a claim: explain what your character is like at the beginning of the play):
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Concrete Detail:
For example (need to include at least one quote from book),
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This shows that...
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This also shows that, or This is because, or This is important because...
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____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Concluding Sentence: [What is the point of this paragraph?] As a result...
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Body Paragraph 2

Transition + Topic Sentence (make a claim: discuss motivations for your character's actions and what motivates your character to change):
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Concrete Detail:
For example (need to include at least one quote from book),
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This shows that...
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This also shows that, or This is because, or This is important because...
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____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Concluding Sentence: [What is the point of this paragraph?] As a result...
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Body Paragrah 3

Transition + Topic Sentence (make a claim: explain what your character is like at the end of the play):
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Concrete Detail:
For example (need to include at least one quote from book),
____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Commentary:
This shows that...
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____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Commentary:
This also shows that, or This is because, or This is important because...
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____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Concluding Sentence: [What is the point of this paragraph?] As a result...
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Conclusion: (Reemphasize your important points, restate your thesis, end strong) [Transitional word or phrase...]
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****I then need the final draft which is the five-paragraph essay MATCHING the outline--discussing how John Proctor undergoes a significant change and what factors and motivations contribute to this change. **The concrete details in each paragraph need to include the quote from the book used in the outline with cited page number in APA style*** The Crucible by Arthur Miller is the only cited works on the Bibliography page.

**Please e-mail as a Microsoft Word document attachment**** Thank you

Essay Instructions: Consider Miller's essay, tragedy and the common man, and place it in conservation with your reading of the Crucible and Death of a Salesman. Compose an essay where you examine John Proctor, Willy Loman and Bill Loman in light of Miller's sense of the literary terms and make a statement declaring one to be Miller's finest example of a tragic hero. Be sure to offer your interpretation of Miller's definition and blend it with the analysis of the characters.

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Essay Instructions: This is an IB writing task assignment. It needs to be creative. The letter should be from Abigail to John Proctor while Proctor is in jail. The letter needs to express why Abigail did what she did and how she feels about it.... Thank You

Essay Instructions: The Crucible -

John Proctor: Daniel Day-Lewis
Abigail Williams: Winona Ryder
Judge Danforth: Paul Scofield
Elizabeth Proctor: Joan Allen
Reverend Parris: Bruce Davison

Directed by Nicholas Hytner. Screenplay by Arthur Miller, based on his play. Running time: 115 minutes. Rated PG-13 (for intense depiction of the Salem witch trials).

Question 1: This film, which is based on Arthur Miller's play, examines several important themes in American religion. Pick one of the following themes and show how the movie illustrates it:
a) those who claim to speak for God are very often furthering their own ambitions or have the most to hide;
b) the evils of jealousy, greed, and ambition can be more powerfully destructive than any supernatural evils;
c) passive acceptance of injustice may be the greatest evil of all.

Question 2: Do you think John Proctor was essentially a good man? Explain your answer using details from the movie.

Question 3: Select one of the other characters in the film, besides John Proctor, who made a strong impression on you. Describe what you learned about the character and how your learned it.

Question 4: Miller meant this play to be an allegory of the 1950s Red Scare. Can you think of any contemporary issue that leads people to act irrationally. Are there any "modern" witchhunts going on?

Question 5: What was your overall reaction to this film. Be honest.