To Do:

1. To Do: • Get out a piece of paper for notes and your character chart. • Open your book to page 164!

3. Quick Write • Do you feel that you get purpose from our mission and vision? If so, why? If not, tell me what gives you purpose -- and how you can leverage that mission for yourself.

4. Character Motivation • Motivation: the reason for a character’s behavior.

5. What does it do for a work of literature? • It helps determine what the character does, says, and feels or fails to feel.

6. Five main categories of motivation • Physiological Motivation: • The motivation to stay alive. • Food, water, shelter, safety, etc.

7. Five main categories of motivation • Romantic Motivation

8. Five main categories of motivation • Financial

9. Five Main Categories of Motivation • Theological • “Do you really expect to get in with a resume like this?”

10. Five Main Categories of Motivation • Political Motivation

11. And Just For Fun!What is this girl motivated by?What category would this fit in?

12. From the book? • Physiological • Romantic • Financial • Theological • Political • Without looking at the text, can you think of which characters are motivated from each category? Write down your guess. 3 min.

13. Let’s Get Motivated! • Turn to Act II in your book! Pg. 164-178 • Let’s read and find what motivates our characters! • I’ll model finding character motivation for Reverend Parris. • You’ll identify the motivation for John Proctor, Reverend Hale, Abigail Williams, and Elizabeth Proctor.

14. Reverend Parris • Who is he? • The reverend of Salem. Abigail’s uncle and Betty Parris’ father. He’s connected to the girls accused of witchcraft by blood. • What are his actions in Act I? • He worries about Betty. He accuses Abigail of witch craft and worries about what will happen to his job if witch craft is accused on his house. He calls Reverend Hale from another city. He argues about his payment with other Salemites. • What is the motivation behind his actions? • Political and Financial: Parris wants to be respected and adored by the members of his parish, so he doesn’t want his name to be soiled. He is also worried about the amount of money that he gets paid and actively tries to get more money.

15. Reverend Parris • Example: Political • Page number: Pg. 144 • Quote: “Abigail, I have fought here three long years to bend these stiff-necked people to me, and now, just when some good respect is rising for me in the parish, you compromise my very character. I have given you a home, child, I have put clothes upon your back-now give me upright answer. Your name in the town-it is entirely white, is it not?”

16. Reverend Parris • Example: Financial • Page Number: 152 • Quote: “Mr. Corey, you will look far for a man of my kind at sixty pound a year! I am not used to this poverty; I left a thrifty business in the Barbados to serve the Lord. I do not fathom it, why am I persecuted here? I cannot offer on proposition but there be a howling riot of argument. I have often wondered if the Devil be in it somewhere’ I cannot understand you people otherwise.”

17. Group Roles: 1st Base – Scribe – Keep track of the group’s ideas and answers 2nd Base – Line/Page finder – Find the textual evidence to back up the group’s answers. 3rd Base – Fact Checker – Listen carefully to all ideas and answers and ensure that they are 100% correct. Home Base – Speaker – Present to the rest of th class your group’s findings.

18. Conclusion: • What is character motivation? • What are the 5 main motivations for characters? • What does motivation do for the plot of the story? • What is Abigail William’s motivation • John Proctor’s? • Reverend Parris’? • Thomas Putnam’s?

19. Exit Card • Write down one of the following on the note card I provide: • Something you learned from the lesson today. • Something you learned about “The Crucible” • A question you have about “The Crucible” • A question you have about character motivation