The Crucible Unit Plan: Fun Activities, Editable Lesson Plans, Movie Guide, Test

You don't need a wand to engage students with The Crucible, but a touch of inspiration can certainly work its magic! This complete and editable Crucible unit plan will help you add theatrical fun, historical intrigue, modern connections, and academic rigor to your Crucible lesson plans. Each act contains interactive notes and engaging activities to help bring this play bubbling to life!

Are you ready to engage students with meaningful and fun activities for teaching The Crucible? Hop on your broom, and let’s ride! 

You will get:

Crucible Pre-Reading Activities:

⭐Introduction stations to hook students from the start

⭐A playbill template with character list

Crucible Reading Activities:

⭐Interactive notes for The Crucible Act 1 with prompts to: summarize, interpret, contrast, and infer

⭐Close reading opportunities to study connotation and author's word choice

⭐Informational text and student mini-project based on fear-based news
⭐Interactive notes for The Crucible Act 2 with the prompts to: paraphrase, annotate, and infer
⭐Interactive notes for The Crucible Act 3 with prompts to: define, interpret, and infer
⭐Interactive notes for The Crucible Act 4 with prompts to: characterize and respond

⭐A social justice lens on Tituba and The Innocence Project

⭐Witch adjective stations

⭐Witch informational text and test prep

⭐What would you do movement and discussion activity

⭐Act it out activity

⭐Finger puppet play materials
⭐Crucible Movie Guide

Crucible Post-reading Activities:

⭐Scientific informational text pairing

⭐Informational text pairing and real-world activity for Proctor's "Because it is my name!" line

⭐Socratic seminar discussion task cards for the end of the play

⭐Annotation guide for "Why I wrote The Crucible"

⭐McCarthyism comparison
⭐ Tombstone symbolism summation
⭐Unique essay prompts

⭐50 question editable test (self-grading if using the Google Forms option)

✅ This unit is editable to fit your needs!
✅ This resource can be printed or use digitally in Google classrooms or other LMS providers.
✅ This unit has answer keys!