1. Jocelyn Malaquias Josue Mendez Kate Honeyman Amanda Monterroso Carmen Lopez Period 6-Group 6 9/25/13

2.   Speaker: Group 6  Occasion: Find information  Audience: Mrs. Hong and Students  Purpose: Find information about Arthur Miller’s book The Crucible  Subject: Salem Witch Trials  Tone: Serious, Informative, detailed. SOAPSTONE

3.   The Salem witch trials occurred in colonial Massachusetts between 1692 and 1693  Colonists believed that witches could control people’s thoughts  People thought that any inexplicable thing that happened was because of the witches. The Beginning of a Horrific Era

4.  Several centuries ago, Christians, and those of other religions, had a strong belief that the Devil could give certain people known as witches the power to harm others in return for their loyalty.

5.   The outbreak of witch accusations in the late 17 th Century is one of the most well-known events of America's colonial period  Girls who first began accusing townspeople as witches, may have very well been "acting" in the court room.

6.   156 people sat in prison charged as witches  19 people sentenced to death were hanged  A prisoner was crushed to death by stones Pilloried Burned Scalded Drawn Quartered Gibbeted Dragged Flayed Stretched Racked Booted Iron Maidened Or were just burned alive The suspected witches were tortured in terrible ways like:

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8.  The Puritan colonists in Massachusetts at the time of the Salem witch panic believed that a witch was allied with the devil and did his dark work on earth. Basically, the human embodiment of evil. The Colonists

9.   http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/brief-salem.html  www. salemwitch museum.com/education/ ‎  http://coursesite.uhcl.edu/HSH/Whitec/xhist/SalemWitchTrials.htm  www.history.com/topics/ salem - witch - trials www.history.com/topics/ salem - witch - trials  http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/suic/topic/actionWin?resetBreadCrumb=&q uery=&prodId=SUIC&windowstate=normal&contentModules=&display- query=&mode=view&limiter=AC+y&showDisambiguation=&displayGro ups=&userGroupName=&action=e&catId=GALE|QVPTWQ460079370&sc anId=  http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/suic/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetails Window?failOverType=&query=&prodId=SUIC&windowstate=normal&c ontentModules=&mode=view&displayGroupName=Reference&limiter=& currPage=&disableHighlighting=false&displayGroups=&sortBy=&source =&search_within_results=&action=e&catId=&activityType=&scanId=&do cumentId=GALE|A145480991 Works cited