Key Words and Concepts Activity 1: Church and community Key words and concepts • Protestant/ Protestantism • Puritanism • the Pope • Roman Catholicism • authority • salvation • church • community Key people (in addition to those in the play) • Martin Luther (1483-1546) Key places • Salem, Massachusetts, America (United States) • Rome, Italy • Wittenberg, Germany Activity 2: Authority and transgression Key words and concepts • Bible • Democracy/ theocracy • faith • fundamentalism • predestination • salvation Key people (in addition to those in the play) • Martin Luther (1483-1546) • John Calvin (1509-1564) Key places • Salem, Massachusetts, America (United States) • Rome, Italy • Wittenberg, Germany • Geneva, Switzerland Activity 3: Witches, the Devil and the existence of evil (Part One) Key words and concepts • witches • Devil or Satan • evil • Gospel Key people (in addition to those in the play) • Samuel Parris (c. 1653-1720) • Dante (1265-1321) Key places • Harvard, Boston, Massachusetts, America (United States) Activity 4: Witches, the Devil and the existence of evil (Part Two) Key words and concepts • Devil or Satan • evil • Gospel • The Book of Revelation (or Apocalypse) Key people (in addition to those in the play) • Jesus • Plato (c.429 BC–c.347 BC) Key places • 17th-century New England, America (United States) Activity 5: Visions of utopia - extended learning Key words/ concepts • community • McCarthyism • Communism • the Communist Manifesto • totalitarianism • the United Nations Key people (in addition to those in the play) • Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) • Joseph Stalin (1879-1953) • Arthur Miller (1915-2005) • Senator Joseph McCarthy (1909-1957) • Karl Marx (1818-1883) |