The Crucible by Arthur Miller Movie Poster Activity

Activity Overview

A fun way for students to express their understanding of a story, its themes, and main characters, is to create a movie poster. As students read The Crucible, they will start to see certain themes and imagery reappear and may also have some ideas about critical scenes within the play. Have students create a movie poster, complete with a title, casting, and an image that conveys important information from the story.

To make this a class assignment, consider giving each student a different act or scene to focus on. When students complete their posters, they can be printed out and hung in the classroom.

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Template and Class Instructions

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Student Instructions

Create a movie poster that evokes the theme, story, and other relevant information about The Crucible.

Click "Start Assignment".
Create an image for your movie poster using appropriate scenes, characters, and items.
Add any additional information, like a tagline, actors, directors, etc.
Save and exit when you're done.

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Lesson Plan Reference

Grade Level 9-12

Difficulty Level 3 (Developing to Mastery)

Type of Assignment Individual

Type of Activity: Movie Posters

Common Core Standards

[ELA-Literacy/RL/9-10/2] Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text
[ELA-Literacy/W/9-10/6] Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology’s capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically

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Rubric

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Movie Poster

Pretend that your book is being made into a blockbuster movie! Create a Movie Poster that showcases the setting, character and a chosen scene or overarching theme of the story. Include the title and author of the book as well as a catchy slogan and a "critic's review" informing the audience why they should go to see the movie and briefly describing the story.

	Proficient	Emerging	Beginning
Text	Includes Title, Author, catchy slogan and a 1-3 sentence critic's review that accurately describes the story and why people should go to see the movie.	Missing one element of text.	Missing two or more elements of text.
Illustrations	Illustrations depict a scene or theme of the story with clear visuals including an appropriate scene, character, items, etc.	Illustrations depict a scene or theme from the story but are unclear or incomplete.	Illustrations do not depict a scene or theme from the story.