Students in Mr. Nekrosius's humanities project groups recently researched, wrote, and designed online newspapers about the Salem Witch Trials. To learn more, there is a link to the newspapers below.
For Mr. Drogos's humanities classes, here is your blog post assignment:
Choose ONE of the online newspapers created by Mr. Nekrosius's project groups and spend twenty minutes browsing through the various pages (you can find links to the two newspapers here). When have finished reading the newspaper, post a comment in which you write the following:
1.Three things you learned about the trials and/or the people of Salem--be specific, and be thorough.
2. A detailed connection between the events of Salem and the events you studied for your project (or, if you were in Mr. Nekrosius's project group, a connection between something you read and something you wrote for your own article.
3. One question for an author or one of the designers of the newspapers.
(If you were in Mr. Nekrosius's project groups, you should post on the other class's newspaper.)
Remember:
You should include ONLY your first name and your class period (NO LAST NAMES) at the end of your blog post.
Also, remember to be positive, constructive, and detailed in your responses! Your posts are due Thursday, December 1st.
I learned that there was more to the pilgrims than the wars with Indians and the British. Many people died because of the Salem Witch trials. Nobody knows why the girls started the Salem Witch Trials and nobody will ever know. I read that the Salem Witch Trials were not that big of a deal. When I started writing about it I realized they were covering up a lot of information. Why are there links at the bottom of all the pages of the New World Times?
ReplyDeleteI learned that lots of people were accused for witchcraft, and even when people confessed to practicing, only because they would be tormented otherwise, the people would still be arrested or hung. I also learned that people were not just arrested, but killed during the Salem Witch Trials. I am also surprised on the fact that people would accuse people of witchcraft just to gain a bit of their land. The trial of Anne Hutchinson and the Salem Witch trials have lots in common. Anne Hutchinson was accused because of something she believed in, Sarah Osborne was accused because she confessed about practicing witchcraft. The Covenant of Grace was different than the Covenant of Works (the more practiced religion), and the witchcraft was not practiced by most, but by few.
ReplyDeleteI wonder who else were wrongly accused, Wilson K.
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ReplyDeletea.) In the trial I learned that in Circa 560 BCE, the Bible first denounced that, “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live” Exodus 22:18, and this statement was used to persuade people that many women were guilty of witchcraft. Though aside from this statement many so called "witches" were pronounced witches at a bias, for example people would be chosen as witches if they were from a low SES family or background, of if they were a bit different, for example smoking a pipe if you were a woman, or if you were colored, and like the Anne Hutchinson trials, by your their religious views.
b.) The reason why the salem which trials was ended because the accusation of people was becoming to bold, meaning the government was trying people who were high class.
c.) At the Salem Witch Trials, an accused person’s fate was determined by whether the so called "witches" chose to confess or deny practicing witchcraft.
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A deep connection between the trial of Anne Hutchinson and the Salem witch trials would be the fact that in both cases women were being prosecuted out of bias. In the case of Anne Hutchinson she was being tried moving against the law, and being a quaker, keeping in mind that she was being tried by all men judges,and to make matter worse, all the male judges were her prosecutors. In the case of the "witches" in the Salem Witch trials, these people were being tried by high class judges, while these "witches: were from a low SES family or background, or a bit different, and were sometimes colored.
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To Colleen B.
Was governor Phips looked on as a good governor or a bad one since at the time Indians were very looked down on, and he did not believe in killing them?
George Burroughs
ReplyDeleteI read an article on George Burroughs. He was a man who was on trail for being a black witch. I learned three important facts about him. In 1692 Burroughs was arrested for witchcraft. He was accused by Mercy Lewis and Ann Putnam for being a black witch. many people thought he was accused for ridiculous reasons. People believed he had super strength and could run faster than a horse. But there were also people who supported him. Many of them tried to support Burroughs. The most important fact i learned about George Burroughs was that he was a very brave man. He was also one of the first people who stood and said what they really believed in.
For my Mural Project I chose the topic Thanksgiving. I think that it very much relates to the story of George Burroughs. In 1621 the indians and Pilgrims did not sit around a big table and eat Turkey. The Pilgrims prayed and the Indians had dances and festivals. There are many assumptions made about the First Thanksgiving that simply are false accusations. Many people thought that George Burroughs was a witch and assumed ridiculous things about him. They thought that he had super/magical powers. Many people assumed that he had all of these superhuman qualities that weren't true. That to me, is the most prominent connection between George Burroughs and the first Thanksgiving. They both had assumptions made about themselves.
One question I have for the author of this article was: What sparked the idea of witchcraft? Was there a particular person who started the phenomenon?
Over all I feel that this article was extremely well written and gave a lot of juicy and important information about George Burroughs.
Nina Drogos 1/2
Three things I learned about the Salem which trial is that the trial really hurt the whole community like many girls were going insane. Something else I found interesting was the strong belief in the Devil by the Pilgrims. I was surprised by how much work the women did around the house and I was also surprised that some women could read and taught their children to read.
ReplyDeleteMy topic for colonial encounters was the pilgrims first thanksgiving, trying to think of connections a lot of un-helpful or hard to write more then a sentence on topics come to mind. It took a while to figure out that the Salem Which Trials came after thanksgiving. It was really right in front of me the whole time. I studied Thanksgiving, what happened before, during, and after the event. Without thanksgiving there would be no Salem Which Trials, there might not have even been any Pilgrims left if it were not for Squanto and the Alliance that the Pilgrims and Native made. Since the Pilgrims won King Phillips war they became very powerful, they did not deal with the Natives any more. In the end the real connection is that without thanksgiving and all the events around it there would not have ever been the Salem which trials.
One question I had was to Sarah Q. and her article Stop the Devil’s Assistances How to tell if someone is a witch. I was wondering if the Pilgrims feared the devil and really believed in devils and witches, like a god.
1) I learned several things about the people of salem reading the article on tituba. I learned that people in salem first accussed poorer people and outcasts in the community of witchcraft. Tituba was one of the only people to confess to witchcraft, many people who denied the accusations were killed. I also learned that for the people of salem it was illegal to separate a married couple, whoever they were.
ReplyDelete2) TItuba, in some ways is similar to Anne Hutchinson. She told people like anne hutchinson storys that made her a heretic.
3) One question I have is why The people in Salem believed in witch craft,and why they were so scared by these people.
1. Something that I learned was that the way the court tried people was very unfair. Firstly, the earliest witch accusers were young girls, who could have been lying, or joking around, not assuming what would happen. Then in the court, the prosecutors used foolish evidence, like witch cakes that would be fed to a dog, or other silly things like that. Another thing I learned was that most of the accused were women of low-class and status in the community. Those women were mostly accused because they were easy targets. One other thing I learned was that the people of Salem immensely regretted what they had done, after the trials were over. I thought that the people of Salem believed they were right, even at the end. It’s good that I read the newspaper, then!
ReplyDelete2. A connection between the Anne Hutchinson trial and the Salem Witch Trials is that the people accused (Anne Hutchinson and the 20 people in Salem) didn’t have much of a chance to be cleared of their charges. With Anne Hutchinson, there was too much evidence against her- and anyways, who would have believed a woman at that time? With the Salem Witch Trials, the evidence was silly, but people were so afraid of the ‘witches’ that they turned a blind eye to it and didn't question the court about the lack of evidence.
3. A question that isn’t directly related to any particular article: During the Salem Witch Trials, did any women accuse men?
Three things I learned about the trials were that twenty people and two dogs died during the course of the Salem Witch Trials. A slave, named Tituba told the daughter of her owners stories that were supernatural. The daughter and her cousin both had screaming fits and acted out a lot. What supprised me was that the doctor diagnosed this as supernatural related.
ReplyDeleteThe trial of Anne Hutchenson and the Salem Witch trials are related in many ways. First of all, both of the events involved women facing magistrates in a trial. Also, Anne was accused of believing the Covenant of Grace, which was a branch of the Puritan religion, and during the witch trials, "witches" were accused of there own religion (following the Devil).
I have a question to Sarah M. and the article Stop the Devil's Assistances How to tell if someone is a witch. If a person was put in the water for the drowning test, they would die if they floated or if they drowned. Why would the people use this as a method if it killed so many people?
Ben L. Period 1/2 Drogos
ReplyDeleteI learned that in 1692, their was a witch hunt in the village Salem. Throughout the hunt, people started to accuse women, of witchcraft, and of studying the ways of a witch. When a person accused a women of witchcraft, they would bring it to the local magistrate. The accusation was very one-sided, needing little information about the person, and usually, the magistrate believed them. The Salem Witch Hunt ended in 1693, in which all the villagers realized that they had executed many innocent villagers, including family and friends. Also, the court of Oyer and Terminer were blamed for these witch hunts, and many of the people in the courts, lost their statuses as even villagers. I was in the movie, and these are connected by the fact that a.) the trial is one sided, and from the start, the person being accused was bound to lose, just like Anne Hutchinson. Also, these are connected by the fact that, if their really WERE witches, it would change society for the worse, like Anne's quaker beliefs. My question goes out to Tobias G. "Tobias, how much research did it take, to make this very detailed and information article?" (the main article)
Averie Drogos 1-2
ReplyDeleteThree things I learned about the Salem witch trials is that a ton of people were either arrested or killed throughout the witch trials and that many of them were innocent. I also learned that the puritans in Salem were very religious and believed in Calvinism, which is when people believe that a form of Christianity the romans practiced was wrong and that people should only believe in God and not the pope. The connection between my topic The First Thanksgiving and the Salem Witch Trials is that both groups ended up not trusting others. After the first Thanksgiving, the pilgrims ended up killing off the people that lived there first. The pilgrims and Indians made a treaty saying that both groups should help the other if needed and to have peace between them. This was broken later on by the pilgrims because they didn't trust the Indians. In the Salem Witch Trials there was distrust because some people believed there was witchcraft and blamed others for practicing it, which they considered a crime. Most of the people that were sent to jail or killed were innocent and were blamed from others that didn't trust them. This lack of trust in both cases stemmed from closedmindedness and misunderstanding. My question for Ilana E. and her article about a tale of two roles is why didn't the women fight back against their parents to get an education? I know that it would affect their marriage, but if they really wanted an education they could have gotten it.
An issue that's come up in a few responses is the issue of mistrust. Some of you have marveled at the suspicion that seemed rampant among the people of Salem and the early Puritan and Pilgrims in general. Why do you think these people tended to mistrust the unknown? How might their circumstances have lead them to this attitude?
ReplyDelete1.Three things you learned about the trials and/or the people of Salem.
ReplyDeleteSomething that I learned about the trials was that Tituba, a slave from Barbados, told stories that started the trials. These stories were actually illegal because they told of objects and actions that were considered sinful. Another was that the people of Salem had a somewhat sober lifestyle. They did not have many celebrations, though the ones that they did were quite explosive, they did not celebrate Christmas, and they were mostly focused on work. A third thing that I learned from the New World Times was that three girls practically led the trials. When the girls began acting strangely, a lot of attention was drawn toward them. They began to accuse poor people, then richer people (of higher status, and even 2 dogs! These are just three of the things that I learned from the New World Times.
2. A detailed connection between the events of Salem and the events you studied for your project.
A large connection that I can make between the events in Salem mentioned in the New World Times and my article, which was about Witch Trials before Salem in Europe, was the disputing about spectral evidence. I noticed that many of the main articles in the 1/2 hour period newspapers talked about the validity of spectral evidence. My article spent a great deal of time talking and explaining spectral evidence. In the end, each of these articles proved spectral evidence to be not valid.
3. One question for an author or one of the designers of the newspapers.
One question that I have for the designers is why they chose to make the background of their newspaper gray? Why did they format the articles the way they did?
One question that I have for the entire group is how they decided on their Masthead? Slogan? How they organized themselves?
One thing I learned about the Salem Witch trials is that that even dogs were killed. Two dogs were accused of being a witch's familiars and were killed. Another thing I learned was that the Puritans believed that at birth, a person was separated into either God's elect or the group that went to hell. No matter what he/she did, that person could not change what group he/she was in. I also learned that after the trials, everyone who had been hung as a witch was pardoned. The people who had died in jail were also pardoned, and the families of both received compensation (although they did not receive a lot of money). My article, Confession vs. Denial as a witch, is related to how the courts got money in Salem and how it affected a "witch" and his/her family. One question I have for the designers of the New World Times is why do the pages sometimes say 404 error and sometimes work? Also, the page colors vary.
ReplyDelete1.One thing i learned from the news paper that there was much mistrust in the colony of salem. It reminds me of the spanish inquesition where everyone was saying every one was a jew. also i learned that the girls turned accusing into a game when they were bored they would just accuse someone and see what happened.
ReplyDeleteone connection between the paxton boys (wich i studied)is that both stories are full of mistrust and lies and deciet.
3. one question i have for the period 1-2 webmaster why do the links on the site not work?
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ReplyDeleteI learned that their were truly cruel people back then. That people would die to prove they were not witches. How simple they were.
I think that the Quakers were disliked partially by the fact that people thought they may be Satan's helpers.
Why did the authors use such ugly HTML code?
Ilana 1/2
ReplyDeleteIn the Salem Times newspaper I read a fabulous article called Roles of Women and Children in Salem by Pascal B. The article explains how children in Salem were educated, the jobs and duties of women and children, and how women must respect and obey men. I learned that all children had schooling as children. I would assume that girls would not get an education because as adults women’s jobs did not necessarily involve an education and they were not respected in the community. I also learned that women were responsible for prescribing drugs and caring for wounds. This surprises me because looking at many of the other jobs for women in that time, caring for wounds and prescribing drugs does not seem to fit. While reading the article I learned that one of the reasons males are the superior gender is because Eve was the first one to take fruit from the forbidden tree in the story of Adam and Eve. Even while learning a lot of information about women’s rights, I never realized that was the origin. For my project I did the Salem Witch Trials newspaper as well. In addition to this, I wrote my article on the rights of women and the comparison between the daily life of a woman and a man. These two topics are extremely similar, although, our information is exceedingly different. The information I received for my article was much different than what I read about in Roles of Women and Children in Salem. I would be curious to see the author’s bibliography from this article, so I could compare my bibliography and hers. Overall without incorporating the differences with my article, I learned a lot, and I also think Pascal’s writing was well done.
Three things I learned about the Witch Trials are that many people simply assumed that innocent people are witches and executed them. I learned that many people were killed in this. I also learned that the people of Salem regretted wrongly accusing all of the "witches", so they renamed their city, dissolved the Court of Oyer and Terminer, and built a memorial for all the people who were executed in the trials. A connection between the trial of Anne Hutchinson and the Salem Witch Trials is that in both trials, someone was wrongly accused and punished for something that they shouldn't be punished for. In both, people assumed that the defendant was doing something wrong and should be punished for it. One question I have for the author or editor or anyone who worked on this article is "In the newspaper, you didn't make any connections between these trials and other misconceptions that have been made in the early American colonies.
ReplyDeleteI read the article “George Burroughs”. In the article I learned that people were put on trial when they were accused of witchcraft, and that Burroughs’s main accuser was Anne Putnam. I also learned that people who are accused are accused of unreasonable things, just to convince the magistrate that he was a wizard. I also learned that anyone could be accused of being a witch or wizard, even if they have high authority, because George Burroughs was a minister in Wells when he was arrested and accused. Even though he was accused of witchcraft he was still greatly respected by some people.
ReplyDeleteI studied the trial of Anne Hutchinson. The trial of Anne Hutchinson and the trial of George Burroughs were closely connected because they were both trials about someone that was accused of something that the people and ministers of the colony of Massachusetts and Salem thought were against the law. Also the defendants both lost their trial. On both sides their was also people that believed they were innocent and reasonable. Anne Hutchinson was fighting for what she believed in, the covenant of grace, and she was teaching what she believed in. George Burroughs was also fighting for what he believed in, people that were being accused of witchcraft were not actually witches, and witches didn’t actually exist. He also tried to tell everyone what he believed in, but the magistrates wouldn’t listen. Another thing that was similar to both trials was during the time when both defendants were accused they were almost freed of their charges. During the Anne Hutchinson trial she was about to be freed of her charges but then she said something about her meetings on Tuesdays and the charges were back on her. George Burroughs was also almost freed of charges when he recited the Lord’s Prayer without making any mistakes and without hesitation. This was said to be impossible for a witch or wizard to do, so many people changed their minds about him being a witch. The magistrates had him hanged anyway because they did not want their previous theories of who should accused as a witch to be proven wrong.
Were the people that were hanged with George Burroughs accused of unreasonable things along with George Burroughs himself?
I learned how out of pure fear people in the new world were with to kill each other for their safety and that these people were a bit insane and paranoid. They didn't understand the new world and were worried about its strangeness. I saw a great connection between these people and those accusing Anne Hutchinson. They didn't understand and decided to go to great extremes to be safe from themselves. If I had to ask a question (this is design oriented), it would be to periods 1/2 about the lack of a design. Although I feel that iWeb limits creativity it is very simple and much faster than writing code, I feel that if there was a simple and clean layout that it would be much easier to read.
ReplyDeleteOne thing that I learned was many innocent people were accused of witch craft or even killed. It is hard to believe that over one hundred people were accused and over twenty were killed. Another thing I learned was that the Salem Witch Trials started when two young girls were acting crazy and not normal. They were said to have been possessed by the devil. Lastly, I learned the Puritans in Salem were practicing Calvinism. It is a form of Christianity. For my project I was in the mural group, I studied the first Thanksgiving. They are connected because they both are misunderstood today. Most people don't know the real story of Thanksgiving or at least most of it. This is like the Salem Witch Trials because most people do not know the entire story. Why didn't they make sure someone was practicing witchcraft before they killed them?
ReplyDeleteOne thing I learned about the Salem witch Trials From the newspaper is that some of the judges presiding over the trials were not actually official judges. The article The Torture behind the trials says that the judges could be witch hunters, magistrates, and even a deputy governor. I also learned that Salem was originally settled in 1626 but many people came in a second expedition led by John Winthrop in 1630. The last thing that I learned was that Dorcas Good was 4 and ½ when she confessed to witchcraft so that she could be with her mother. She also had an infant sibling who died in jail with her and her mother. One connection I made between my group article on John Proctor and the article on the Mather family is that John Proctor wrote a letter to the Boston Clergy, which included Cotton Mather, asking for him to be released and talking about the unfairness of the trials. Cotton Mather later helped to eliminate the use of spectral evidence in the trials. One question I have for Zoe R is why did Tituba keep telling the stories after the girls began to act weird?
ReplyDeletePria Drogos 6-7
ReplyDeleteThe first thing I learned was that people were accused even though they were innocent. They were accused if they begged or were different. Sarah Good was accused because Ann Putnam said she was "a bit of a tramp". Bridget Bishop was accused of witchcraft because she dressed in bright colors and flirted with men.
I also learned that the people of Salem and the court would believe young girls more than the accused. Ann Putnam accused 1/3 of the jailed or hanged "witches" in Salem. Elizabeth Parris and Abigail Williams accused three women of witchcraft, and the women later sentenced to being hanged.
The third thing I learned is that Salem was a complete wreck at the time of the Salem Witch Trials. People being accused left and right. How could you live without being in fear, of the next day being accused? Nobody had any basis for the accusations, innocent people were being hanged!
This relates to my topic of Mary Rowlandson by how religious both events were. Mary Rowlandson was an avid Puritan, and thought everything she did , good and bad, could be justified by god. The people of Salem were very religious, too. They thought, "Oh, is so-and-so in contact with the devil? Yes, we must hang so-and-so! Yar!"
One question I have for the editor(s) (hopefully there was more than one!) of the newspaper was: How much time did you get to edit ALL the articles?
There were a lot more to the pilgrims and puritans then what they are credited for is what I leave when reading New World Time. There were a lot of lives that were taken in the absurd beliefs of witches demonstrated in the Salem Witch Trials. Even to this day it is unknown why these trials began. While writing this blog post I noticed that there was a lot of information not communicated from author to reader. How did you create these websites and what program/website did you use.
ReplyDeleteFrom reading the article on Giles Corey from the news paper The Salem Times, I learned a lot about Giles Corey. I learned that he was wealthy, but had a bad reputation, people thought he was rude and inconsiderate. I also learned that Corey did not defend his wife at her trial, I can't imagine why he didn't do so. From this article I also learned exactly how Giles Corey was killed I knew he was pressed to death, but I didn't know about the board placed on top of him first, I didn't know that Corey refused to say a single word until he said "More weight", I thought he had just refused to confess to witchcraft. In the article I wrote on Tituba I believe I breifly talked about how lower class people were targeted first as witches. In the article about Giles Corey Ben talked about how Martha Corey was the first wealthy women to be accused. My question for Ben would be, why didn't Corey defend his wife at her trial and why did he change his mind all of a sudden?
ReplyDelete1)I leaned that Bridget Bishop was the first person ever to die from the Salem witch trials, she was accused of being a witch because she wore red dresses and because of normal things such as getting into fights with her husband. I also learned about Giles Cory, I learned that he was accused of being a witch after he already had accused his wife. He dyed a gruesome death, he was pressed to death. i learned about Tituba. Tituba was one of the first people to admit to being a witch, even though she wasn't one. A lot of people blame her for the whole witch hysteria, because she mistakenly justified that witches were true.
ReplyDelete2) My Anne Hutchinson project connects with the Salem Witch trials project because most of the people accused of being witches were just rebels and not excepted by society. Because Bridget wore deep red dresses and managed a liquor store, which both women don't normally do, she must be a witch. Because Anne had different ideas than the preachers, she must be wrong. in both projects people who stand out or do something different than society are sent to court or jail, and in Salem hanged.
3) How long did people believe and accuse other people of witchcraft?
I learned that rumors, a person's appearance, or a person's words could cause them to be found guilty of witchcraft during the time of the Salem witchcraft trials. Rebecca Nurse was found guilty of being a witch based on rumors and false accusations made by some girls in Salem. At age 71, she was executed by hanging based upon those rumors. Sarah Good was a town beggar after being left in debt, and many residents did not like her appearance. It was easy for people to dislike her because of the way she dressed and looked and soon she was falsely accused of being a witch and was put to death. Also, sarcastic words by people themselves could get them into trouble, as was the case with John Proctor. He was hung for being a wizard after making comments about witches and wizards, which he didn't know would be taken so seriously. Also, with the use of spectral evidence, it was almost impossible to defend yourself from false acciusations regardless of your social status.
ReplyDeleteThere is a strong relationship between the Salem witch trials and my project on Anne Hutchison. Anne Hutchison was put on trial for preaching what the Quakers believed to men and older adults. The Puritans abosolutely hated the Quakers, therefore a woman preaching to men and elder's was not to be overlooked. Anne Hutchiosn was put on trial for her beliefs and the "witches" and "wizards" were put on trial for what other people believed. Religious beliefs were the causes of people being punished in both cases.
There was a story about an Indian slave who was put on trial for being a witch. Were there any other slaves put on trial for witchcraft? Alexis Drogos,6-7
1. I learned that women were treated very unfairly in Salem. As it said in the newspaper: 'The women's role in marriages in the 17th century is exceedingly hard. Many husbands never treat their wives fairly.' I also learned, that there were two ideas that people thought happened because of King Phillip's war (which was going on at the time of the Salem Witch Trials). One was that people believed the Salem witch trials occurred because of it, and the other is 'mass hysteria in Salem' I learned many other things, but the last one I'm going to list really stuck out at me when I read it. These are the steps of the Witch Trials: 'Actually, admitting your guilt to witchcraft cleanses your soul of the sins you have committed. If you admit then you may not be hanged but if you keep resisting then you must be hanged.' This would be a good way to stay alive, but most people obviously did not do this because many people got killed.
ReplyDelete2. A connection that I see between the period 1/2 newspaper, and the documentary that I was in is that all of the trouble is made by the puritans and their religion.
3. My question is to Ilana E.: Was there a specific reason that the men were rude or cruel to their wife's in your opinion?
Emma Drogos 6/7
This is in response to "Zichie". When we think of our country, supposedly so free, liberal, and open to innovation, it is interesting to note that some of the founders of this nation-- Pilgrims and Puritans-- could be so fearful of the unknown. They believed in predestination. They saw the unknown natural world as dark, sinister, full of evil forces. The 20th-Century poet William Carlos Williams compared the Mayflower's passengers to the seed of a blossoming of English culture. As England bloomed into a world power; it produced a hard, dense, seed. These Pilgrims and Puritans, Williams argued, had "tight-locked hearts," but it was only because of that hard, fearful determination that they were able to make this treacherous voyage across the Atlantic, that they were able to survive in this foreign, harsh and (for them) uncivilized new world. Later on, that seed would itself grow into some of the liberal ideals and structures we celebrate, but the Pilgrims and Puritans very closely-knit, self-reliant and fearful nature made it possible for this new society to take root in the first place. Food for thought, anyhow....
ReplyDelete1) I learned that King Philips War ended in 1676. I also learned that King WIlliams was followed shortly after in 1689. Both wars about land and economic status.
ReplyDelete2) King Phillips and King Williams war relate to my mural because they both are interactions with the Indians. I did a mural on the first Thanksgiving which was the Indians and the Settlers getting along. In the wars they are fighting, but still interacting.
3) Why would the Kings go to war to begin with? Yes, they wanted land but what made them think that it was okay to invade the home of others?
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ReplyDeleteDanny Drogos
ReplyDelete1) i learned that the salem witch trials is completely pointless and was caused from the stress, the fears of an unknown land and their strict religion. i also learned that the world learned from this terrible event about their justice system.
2) i read about how the trials ran and i wrote about Ann Putnam. they both shows an interest about how the justice system in salem was put into effect, the complete bias against the witch and sympathy and fear to the girls.
3)Why was religion tied in so much with the justice system in salem?
I learned a lot from the salem witch trails. I learned that the court was not fair at all back then when our movie took place. the prosecutors were also the Judges, so it is not fair for the defense. I learned that women were also looked down on by men way more than now.
ReplyDeleteAlso religion was much more sacred then it is now because, if they did not care if women preached to the men than the whole trial wouldn't have happened. They said she could preach to only women. But what she was saying was really important so she thought that she could preach to other men. I think she was right.
Reese Drogos 1-2
ReplyDeleteI learned that back in Salem people were very rude and unfair to others. For instance the men treated women like slaves. They would some times hit, kick or threaten their wives if they didn’t please them. if a women wanted to do something that was considered different she would be making big risks to her life. She could be tortured or even killed. Although, being a wife doesn’t seem that good either, I mean you pretty much get abused if you don’t do everything right.
My connection between the Salem witch trials and the mural project is that there was lots of unfairness going on. In my topic the First Thanksgiving they all agreed that they would get along and the natives even helped and taught the pilgrims how to survive. After the First Thanksgiving the pilgrims just killed all of the natives right after they had a terrific feast. Then in the Tale of Two Roles the people never really trusted each other. I mean the husbands would do very cruel things to their wives and the wives could do terrible things back to their husbands. So they never really trust one another.
My question for Ilana E. is: If the puritans thought that abusing was wrong then how come if a husband did abuse their wife they didn’t get punished? Because each time it said a man was accused of abusing his wife it always ended with the husband magically getting freed from his punishment.
I learned that the Salem witch trials began in 1693, I also learned how they dealt with a so called witch. When someone was suspected they made a complaint to the local magistrate. The magistrate then next issued an arrest warrant to the authorities and the suspect was put in custody. Another thing that I learned while reading the paper is that the reason that the trials ended was because most of the villagers stopped hunting down the witches and because they had lost some of their family and friends because of the trials. The family and friends thought that the innocent were being accused of witchcraft like in Hogwarts. I did the Anne Hutchinson trial movie and a similarity to the witch trials and the Hutchinson trial was that they were both trials that were harmfull in a way to some people in the end because they died or they were murderd in New York. Were the witches put on trial because they looked like witches or they proved that they were??? - Alex
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ReplyDelete1) Three things that I learned about the Salem Witch Trials are: that over one hundred people were accused of being a witch, twenty were killed, and the people were puritans and believed that there were two parts to the soul. The "immortal" part (the male) and the "mortal" part (the female).
2) One connection between the Salem Witch Trials and the trial of Anne Hutchinson is that the defendant didn't have much of a chance to defend themselves.
3) Who is Sarah Good and why is there a picture of her name carved into a piece of stone?
1. Since I was most interested in the "People" section, i will mention what I learned from there. I learned from these articles that almost everyone who was accused of witchcraft or wizardry thought it best to admit to the crime even when they were innocent, because they thought they could avoid being hanged that way. Also, I learned that some people considered witchcraft and wizardry a joke, because if they didn't, they would not randomly accuse people who they are know are innocent, like what happened in "Wrongly Accused". Another thing I learned was that attending church was a very big deal, and if you didn't, you would be disliked in the town, or a main target for accusation.
ReplyDelete2. A connection between the Salem Witch Trials and the trial of Anne Hutchinson, is that it seems that the judges seem to think that absolutely everyone is guilty, no matter what they say. Almost as if you are accused, then you are guilty.
3. To the designers of the newspaper - How many displays did you consider before you chose this one (which was a good choice)?
Chavon H., Drogos 6-7
ReplyDelete1. I have learned that it is a real mystery about why the girls were misbehaving. A lot of people; scholars, scientist, tried to figure out what happened to the girls and no one is sure what REALLY happened. Some of the theories were that the girls had a mental illness called hysteria or a physical illness called ergot poisoning.
2. My project was on the first thanksgiving. One connection between the two are the mystery's. The mystery of what happened to the girls? And the mystery of how thanksgiving became full of shopping, football, and parades?
3. How challenging was this project to you? Did you enjoy it? What inspired you to do this project?
1. The Salem Witch trials seem so crazy to me. I learned that everyone who doesn't believe in god is only helping the devil, something I had already known but was very consistent through the newspaper. I learned that there were outrageous ways of how the English found out who was a witch and who was not. For example when you stab someone and if they're bleeding they're innocent and if they don't, they're a witch, doesn't everyone bleed? That logic didn't make much sense to me but I found it interesting. I also learned that this even happened before people came to New England. People thought of witch craft even in the Old world. Way to many people had died in the Salem Witch trials and the way that the English had killed the witches were cruel.
ReplyDelete2. I had done the mural project and my group had worked on the perspectives on how the English thought of the Natives and how the Natives thought of the English. I thought there had been a big connection dealing with perspectives. The majority of the English people had strictly only thought that there was only one religion: Christianity. Anything that was different is evil or helping the devil. The perspectives on the English are so narrow that just anything different is horrible. Even though the witches and Indians are people just like them.
3. What is "black magic"? What were some of the stories that Tituba had told? What was it like making a newspaper?