The Crucible Review - Acts 1 & 2

Things You Need To Know:

• Setting of the play - time and place (exact location of each act)
• Relationship between John and Elizabeth Proctor
• Mary Warren's present to Elizabeth
• Who has been accused and arrested because of witchcraft
• Why has Abigail been fired from the Proctors
• What's Abigail's role in the trials
• Why does John hesitate to tell the court what Abigail told him
• What would the court accept as evidence of witchcraft
• What group of characters are against the court
• Why does Hale come to the Proctor's house
• How does Proctor respond to Mary Warren's claim that Abigail will charge Proctor with lechery

The Glass Menagerie - Allusions

Allusion - a brief reference, explicit or indirect, which comes from history or literature that is purposely used to enlarge upon or enhance an author's point.

English 2 Honors students - research the following allusions that are found in the The Glass Menagerie:

1.  Guernica
2.  DAR
3.  D.H. Lawrence
4.  Garbo
5.  "Ava Maria"
6.  Franco
7.  Berchteesgaden
8.  A. Neville Chamberlain
9.  "Dardanella"
10. Dizzy Dean

The Great Gatsby & The Roaring Twenties

About The Great Gatsby

• Even though this novel was written in 1925, its style and content would be categorized as a work of the Romantic Period of literature.
• F. Scott Fitzgerald is considered to be one of the primary spokesmen of the era he named the "Jazz Age" - the period beginning with the end of WW I in 1918 and ending with the stock market crash in 1929.
• The Great Gatsby is considered to be his finest work and , in fact, one of the classic masterpieces of American Literature. 

About the Roaring Twenties

• Music was important
• People danced the Charleston.
• The Depression started.
• Fitzgerald was a spokesperson for his generation.
• Fitzgerald captured the American Dream - its good and bad points.