Do Now:

1
Do Now

• Clear your desk except for a pen
• After quiz, brainstorm a list of plot
  elementsthings that have happened in the reading
  so far that shows the real hysteria creeping into
  the town

2
What does Millers treatment of the hysteria
motif reveal about the authors perspective
regarding the cause of these trials?

• Motif
• A motif is a detail (thought, pattern, or
  structure) within the story that repeats itself
  throughout the work.
• Examples of common motifs include colors,
  character traits, objects, locations, or
  situations.

3
The Sixth Sense

• Motif of the color red
• Cole wears a red sweater
• a red balloon floats up toward the attic in the
  birthday party scene
• Bruce Willis's character Malcolm jiggles a red
  doorknob several times
• Why?
• Something supernatural is going on! Someone has
  died!

4
Pair-Share

• Make a list of things that have happened in the
  reading so far that shows the real hysteria
  creeping into the townor anything to do with
  hysteria