MCCARTHYISM

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MCCARTHYISM

• Sept. 3-4

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• Analyze and interpret samples of good writing,
  identifying and explaining an authors use of
  rhetorical strategies and techniques

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MCCARTHYISM

• HISTORICAL CONTEXT
• What preoccupied Americans during the 1940s and
  1950s? Record your answer in your notes.
• Reread lines 1529 and use the information
  presented to define McCarthyism.
• Does this paragraph explain McCarthyism
  objectively or does it take a position on the
  senator and his campaign?
• Support your answer with evidence from the
  selection.

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The Demons of Salem, With Us Still

• According to the online article on page 217, how
  did Americans in the early 1950s feel about
  communism, and why?
• Analyze What do the so-called Red Men- ace
  (line 4), reckless charges (lines 56),
  comsymps (line 6), and center ring (line14)
  suggest about Navaskys view of McCarthyism?
• Synthesize If Navasky could have written during
  the McCarthy hearings, what do you think he would
  have urged people to do?

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Timebends

• HISTORICAL CONTEXT
• Reread lines 117. What details indicate the
  significance for Miller of finding Starkeys book
  
• As you have seen by reading these selections,
  politics, journalism, and literature can share
  ideas from a particular historical context.
• One article provides information on the McCarthy
  hearings another addresses both the hearings and
  the writing of The Crucible. The third provides
  personal testimony from Miller himself.
• To synthesize what you have read, identify a
  theme or idea that
• runs through all three selections.

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Research the following and discuss how the red
scare affected them personally and
professionally.

• Paul Robeson
• Arthur Miller
• Aaron Copland
• Leonard Bernstein
• Charlie Chaplin
• Elia Kazan
• Mort Sahl
• journalist Edward R. Murrow,