1. Honors Day 38 AB Research/Crucible
Vocabulary: Relative Prefixes—Come On 6
Tragic Hero, Tragedy, Crucible
Discuss Act II
The Crucible: finish for Monday.
Read “Tragedy and the Common Man” for Monday
Homework: Summarize the play, due Monday
Wikis due January 25. Extra Credit: Read a second book and do a second project
Rewrites due next Friday, Test next Friday

2. What is Tragedy?
Tragedy, then, is a process of imitating an action which has serious implications, is complete, and possesses magnitude; by means of language which has been made sensuously attractive, with each of its varieties found separately in the parts; enacted by the persons themselves and not presented through narrative; through a course of pity and fear completing the purification of tragic acts which have those emotional characteristics.
from Aristotle's Poetics (from the translation by Gerald Else)

3. Crucible (n):
1. A vessel made of a hard to melt substance such as graphite or porcelain, used for melting materials at high temperatures, sending the “good ore” to the top.
2. A severe test, as of patience or belief; a trial.
3. A place, time, or situation characterized by the confluence of powerful intellectual, social, economic, or political forces

4. Another Consideration:
dictionary definition of the term as a "pot" that through the process of "refraction," through intense heat, sends the "good" ore to the top;
connotatively, a severe trial or test. Based on this definition, those who endure the "heat" of rigid Puritanism, to keep their integrity intact, are metaphorically the "pure" ore.