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I want you to research the life of Arthur Miller. Look into his life (personal and professional), writing history (especially dealing with The Crucible), political beliefs, and other interesting facts about Arthur Miller all leading up to, why he wrote The Crucible?
 * Crucible: Arthur Miller Mini Project **

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 * Purpose: ** The purpose of this mini project is for you to research the life of Arthur Miller and figure out why he wrote The Crucible or what lead up to him writing this play.
 * Steps: **
 * 1)  Access the following websites to get your information about Arthur Miller:

Power Point/Prezi Web page:
 * 1) Gather your facts and make sure you keep track of the sites you use as you will need a works cited page! Make sure you put your facts into your own words…you will be counted down if all you do is cut and paste! All pictures need a caption with the link you copied them from.
 * 2) Next create a web-page, powerpoint, or Prezi with the information you have found. Remember this is a mini-project so you should limit the amount of pages, slides or subpoints to around 5-6 (this is NOT including your works cited page).
 * 3) I will grade you on the thoroughness, creativity, and completeness of this project. I will also be grading you on your MLA correct works cited page.
 * 4) This assignment should not take more than 2-3 days to complete!
 * 5) Print out rubric and hand to Ms. Tombre to grade.
 * Check-list **
 * o 5-10 slides/spokes
 * o Information is in your OWN words
 * o All images have a caption
 * o Easy to view pages
 * o Complete works cited page
 * o Slides are easy to read and free of spelling and grammatical mistakes
 * o Colorful and complete
 * o All links work
 * o There are images with captions
 * o All your questions and 5 W’s and H are answered
 * o Is clean, neat, organized and creative
 * o Works cited page is either in link form or printed out.
 * o Page/pages are free of spelling errors and grammatical mistakes

Rubric for the Arthur Miller Mini Project Name ________________________ Title of Mini project _________________ Class __________________ date __________________ final grade ______

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 * Element || Excellent 10 || Good 5 || Help! 0 ||
 * Content: The 5 W’s and H and the question of why AM wrote //The Crucible//. || Excellent job of finding information on your author. The information is in your own words and is accurate and well written with few mistakes. All the 5 W’s, H, and personal questions were answered. || Pretty good but you could have added more information…the information contained many mistakes. Missing 1 or 2 of the 5 W’s, H, or your own personal questions. || Entire project was cut and pasted from the internet…there was no original material. Your personal questions and the 5 W’s and H were missing. ||
 * Overall presentation || The presentation was colorful, had images, and was well thought out. Designs were original and not distracting and had a nice flow to them || Presentation was pretty good with creativity…but could have had some more images, color, or a better design to make it complete. || Presentation was lacking creativity, was hard to read, or had a sloppy appearance or a “thrown together” kind of feel. None or very few images, lacked color and design. ||
 * Project Completeness || Excellent organization of project, viewers know exactly what the project is about…there are no distractions or a lot of “white space” || For the most part pretty organized, there might be a few areas of confusion… possible off topic parts, || Project is not organized, viewer is confused as to what is going on in the project...too much white space ||
 * Works cited page and image captions || Works cited page is up to MLA standards this is either printed, the last slide, or easily seen. ALL images have a caption with the URL information. || There are more than 5 MLA mistakes with the works cited, fewer than 3 images are lacking a caption. ||  No works cited page or the work cited page is not in MLA format, more than 3 images do not have captions.
 * Grade || First score: || Final score if redone || Comments: ||