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Salem Witch Trails Lesson & Student Samples
= = ==This R.A.F.T. assignment integrates History/Social Studies Standards, ELA/Writing Standards, and our Tier 1 Historical Thinking goal of helping our students to build personal and intimate connections to the past. ==

==In this differentiated assignment, students choose to write from one of several different perspectives about the same time period: 1692 to 1693, Salem Village, Massachusetts. ==

==We've endeavored to incorporate teaching strategies learned from our Foundations Summer Institute, such as teaching History through picture books, analyzing historical, primary source documents, and photos, and helping students to gain perspective through "stories of the past" through biographical and first-person accounts.==

Standards:
=== Social Studies === === 5.4 Students understand the political, religious, social, and economic institutions that evolved in the colonial era. === === 5.4.3 === === Describe the religious aspects of the earliest colonies (e.g., Puritanism in Massachu­setts, Anglicanism in Virginia, Catholicism in Maryland, Quakerism in Pennsylvania) ===

=== Writing Standards === === Writing applications 2.2: === === Write responses to literature: === === a. Demonstrate an understanding of a literary work. === === b. Support judgments through references to the text and to prior knowledge. === === c. Develop interpretations that exhibit careful reading and understanding. ===

=== 2.4 Write persuasive letters or compositions: === === a. State a clear position in support of a proposal. === === b. Support a position with relevant evidence. === === c. Follow a simple organizational pattern. === === d. Address reader concerns ===

Resources: Mysteries of History: Start with this book by Jan Yolen as a read aloud.



= Cicero History also has two short student passages, in which they may read independently or with support, to learn more =

[|Cicero Salem Witch Trials]

[|Cicero Tituba]

= Also, these websites were helpful, but teachers need to edit/select content first: =

[|School Adventures, Salem]

[|Which is a Witch?]

[|Lessons and resource]

==Click here to see the R.A.F.T. writing assignment guidelines. ==

=Student Samples: =

=**Two-way Journal between one of the accusers and one of the accused:**=



 









=Tituba's Private Journal:=











=**Persuasive Letter to the judge, Salem Village, 1692**=







=**Sermon by Reverend Parris to his congregation, 1692**=



=**Post cards written from a citizen of Salem Village to family in England:**=