Who?

• What organisation / institution published the information?

• What is their position with regard to the topic you are researching?

Why?

• What is their intention in publishing the information?

Topic

1.

2.

recommended websites

• terms to be defined

• questions to be answered (as a result of the web-quest)

• tasks to prepare for the whole class

New England settlers

1.

to be announced

2.

• Who were they?

• What countries did they predominantly come from?

• What was the motivation to leave their countries of origin?

• What were intentions / visions for their lives in their newly found homeland?

Puritans

1.

• http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/eighteen/ekeyinfo/puritan.htm

• http://www.reformiert-online.net/lexikon/detail.php?id=50

• http://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/encyc/encyc09/htm/iv.v.xcvii.htm

• http://www.exlibris.org/nonconform/engdis/puritans.html

2.

• How, when (in what historic period?) and under what circumstances did the movement come about?

• Terms: predestination, election / community of the elect, grace

• How can a puritan know, whether he is elect or not?

• Does election show at all, and when so, how?

• Who was Calvin? (not Calvin Klein!)

• What about Zürich? → Protestants → protestant work ethic? Explain!

Salem Witch Trials

(maybe better to be done with the whole class)

1.

Sites of questionable value

• http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schooladventures/salemwitchtrials/life/ (maybe rather of use as a resource for the teacher, very flashy site)

• http://www.salemwitchtrials.com/salemwitchcraft.html (maybe too many details on this site)

very good and reliable site: maybe better be used with the whole class

Salem Witchcraft Trials 1692

• http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/SALEM.HTM

2.

Tasks for the whole class:

 Read: “Chronology of Events Relating to the Salem Witchcraft Trials”

(http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/ASAL_CH.HTM)

→ compare the real life chronology with the book

 Do: “You’re accused” in class

(http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/accused!.html)

→ Game: How would you react, if you were accused of being a witch?

→ Can also be done as a group task without the website

 Read: “Two Letters of Gov. William Phips (1692-1693)”

(http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/ASA_LETT.HTM)

→ Discuss letters in class

Cold War /

Domino Theory /

Mc Carthy Era

1.

Cold War:

• http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/what%20was%20the%20cold%20war.htm

• http://www.history-timelines.org.uk/events-timelines/03-cold-war-timeline.htm

(Domino Theory)

• http://www.trackedinamerica.org/timeline/mccarthy_era/intro/

Mc Carthy Era

• http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/McCarthy+era

Two articles from the Guardian about Arthur Miller: Are you now or were you ever?(I&II)

• http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2000/jun/17/books.guardianreview/print

• http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2000/jun/16/history.society/print

Arthur Miller: Why I Wrote ‘The Crucible’

http://www.dlackey.org/weblog/docs/Why%20I%20Wrote%20the%20Crucible.pdf

Outlook: McCarthyism vs. War On Terrorism: Connections? Similarities? Differences?

• http://www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol3_1/beyer.htm

(this article might be too difficult and it’s also not neutral, but clearly does take a stand)

2.

• Group task: Define one of the above terms (one term per group)

• All: Read: Why I Wrote ‘The Crucible’

• Why might ‘The Crucible’ have been such a success? (also after the Mc Carthy Era, also in other cultures)

• What about now? Is this play still relevant today?

• Have open discussion to bring it all together and bring the work with the play to a close