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. Nekrosius'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 are 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 are 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.
37 comments:
When I read the Newspaper I noticed that what they meant by witch was someone who worked for the devil.I also learned that they had many different ways of telling if someone is a witch.Some of them seemed really complicated like baking a cake that had the "witch's" pee in it and feeding it to a dog.I also didn't know that so many people were accused "over one hundred accused and over twenty dead". I think that is going over the top with your religion when you start killing people. It is not christian to kill someone.
When was I doing my mural I read the Narrative Mary Rowlandson wrote and then I read the newspaper and I realized that all the puritans seem to hate anything that is different.( in Mary's case the Native Americans and in newspaper the so-called witches) This is strange because they came to America so they could practice their religion freely.
My question to the Designers is how they got the back round colors and patterns. Alice Nekrosius 6/7
I learned that the first people that were accused of being witches were lower class and didn't go to church. Also I learned that you could make a witches cake, that would help identify who was the witch, and that the people who confessed of being witches in the beginning of the trials, ended up saying that they weren't true when the witch trial ended. A connection I found between a book I read about Samuel Sewall was that he was a loving father, and very forgiving. I put that in my article by saying that not all puritans were mean and unforgiving. Also my question for the webmaster is, "Did you use HTML code?"
First thing I learned is in 1692, a witch-hunt began in Salem Village. During the hunt there was a procedure for accusing people of being witches. Second thing I learned is in January of 1692, Betty and Abigail began to have what are called fits. And finally, the third thing I learned is that girls back than used to behave extremely well.
In January of 1692, Betty and Abigail began to have what was described as "fits."
The definition of hysteria fits the behavior of the girls extremely well
A connection between the mural group and the Salem witch trials is there are lots of rebellions. Like in the mural group, there was a rebellion between the colonists and the Native Americans. The colonists told the Native Americans to become Christian and the Natives didn’t so that is a rebellion. In the Salem witch trials; there was a rebellion if the people that were accused were witches or not. i have one question for one of the designers of the newspaper. How did you put all the papers in to one newspaper?
from Adrian.C Nekrosius 1/2
I read the New World Times. I learned that Sarah Good's father had lots of money from his inn business, but when his wife remarried, she took all the money that was left for the seven daughters. I also learned that the accusers had some of the same symptoms of ergot poison, and that many historians believe the girls actually had ergot poisoning. I also learned that when they halted the trials after the governors wife was accused, they suspended the use of spectral evidence.
When I read the article about George Burroughs, it reminded me of our group article on how the hysteria began. I wrote the part about Samuel Parris. Samuel Parris is like George Burroughs because they were both ministers who were very important to the Salem Witch Trials. George Burroughs recited the Lord's Prayer before he was hanged, and Reverend Samuel Parris' slave started telling stories of witchcraft to the girls in the very beginning, starting it all.
I was wondering, is it hard to create a website connecting all the different articles and pictures to fit together and look good?
Athena Nekrosius 6/7
1.)
I read an article about Tituba.
Tituba started all the fuss about witches just by telling her "master's" children some scary voodoo stories from her home in Barbados. The girls- Abigail and Betty-were fascinated by the stories. But then the girls started to had strange fits. They did strange things like bark in church. When a doctor checked them out, he said they were bewitched. The girls thought they were seriously in trouble with the law so they made up an excuse. They told everyone that Tituba was a witch. She confessed to being a witch (even though she really was not) and saved her life. Other women who denied being witches were hanged. But when Tituba confessed, she made the whole town very fearful. After waiting out the eight-month hysteria, Tituba was out of jail. But she had to wait another whole year to get paid out of jail by someone.
What surprised me most was that Tituba confessed to being a witch.
2.)
I studied the story of Mary Rowlandson. I read her Captivity Narrative. In both stories, the Puritans seem to hate change. They like order, but they can't get used to anything but their way of things. This causes them to be rebellious against a lot of things. In Mary Rowlandson's story, she can't ever get use to the Natives. She always acts rude and arrogant around them. She doesn't ever understand that they just have a different way of life than her (none of the Puritans do, really). In the Salem Witch Trials, the Puritans can't accept difference-the different people-the witches. They are always accusing people because they just want their cities to be perfect and orderly.
3.)
To Zoe R: You said John Indian started accusing others of witch craft. Could random people just start accusing others?
-Saskia K. Nekrosius 1/2
I learned that there are two kinds of magic that supposedly come from the devil--there are witches, who are people who signed the Devil's book and practice black magic, and there are cunning folk, who are people that practice beneficial magic like healing sick people, cast love spells, and find lost or stolen items. But even though these cunning folk practice good magic, their magic is still considered a sin. The Puritans say this because any magic that does not come from God must come from the devil. I thought that was interesting that they would condemn people who had helped them with their lives.
I worked on the Salem Witch Trials project myself, and I wrote an article about Puritan women and children. In the first and second period newspaper, I read an article that elaborated on the roles of women in Salem, and I found more proof of the Puritans' belief that men are far superior to women--sometimes men abuse their wives, which is against the law. One example of this is "...a man who was accused of kicking, hitting his wife on the head, and threatening to slit her throat and burn her." He received a sentence to be lashed, but the sentence was not carried out when he apologized and agreed not to do it anymore! If a women received a sentence like this and apologized, the sentence would probably still be carried out.
A question for the author of the "Ask the Accusers" is:
What persuaded you to use that image for your article, and what do you think its relevance is to the article?
When I read the newspaper I learned a few things. One was that Governer Phips had been a very powerful man. Prieviusly I knew very little about Phips and I thought it was interesting that he had governed The Massechusets bay colony. Then went on to govern the small town of Salem. I also learned that Ann Putnam jr. was the leader of the afflicted, but that makes some sense based on that she accused some people that her family had disputes with.
A article that compared with my article well was Janine's. It said that samuel Parris played a big part in the trials, my article agreed with that.
I have a question for Janine about the Rumor that Samuel Parris told the other girls to be bewitched.
Owen L. Nekrosius 1/2
I learned that there are two kinds of magic that supposedly come from the devil--there are witches, who are people who signed the Devil's book and practice black magic, and there are cunning folk, who are people that practice beneficial magic like healing sick people, cast love spells, and find lost or stolen items. But even though these cunning folk practice good magic, their magic is still considered a sin. The Puritans say this because any magic that does not come from God must come from the devil. I thought that was interesting that they would condemn people who had helped them with their lives.
I worked on the Salem Witch Trials project myself, and I wrote an article about Puritan women and children. In the first and second period newspaper, I read an article that elaborated on the roles of women in Salem, and I found more proof of the Puritans' belief that men are far superior to women--sometimes men abuse their wives, which is against the law. One example of this is "...a man who was accused of kicking, hitting his wife on the head, and threatening to slit her throat and burn her." He received a sentence to be lashed, but the sentence was not carried out when he apologized and agreed not to do it anymore! If a women received a sentence like this and apologized, the sentence would probably still be carried out.
A question for the author of the "Ask the Accusers" is:
What persuaded you to use that image for your article, and what do you think its relevance is to the article?
Pascale B, Nekrosius 6-7
Three things I learned about the salem witch trials are:
1 The salem witch trials started with three young women.
2 The salem witch trials where started by a lack of food and constant fear.
3 The "Malleus Maleficarum" (newspaper) was a book about identifying witches.
The war of the Grand Alliance was closely related to the salem witch trials because one fed off of each other. both put a large strain on salem.
a question for the designers of period 1-2 why did the links not work for most of the articles.
jonathan l. nekrosius 1-2
I read the Salem Times. I learned that the first few people who were accused of being a witch were some of the least wealthy people in the colony. They were also all women. The most likely suspects were the ones who did not go to church. That is why both Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne were likely suspects. I learned from Shaunak's comic that there was almost nothing you could do to not be guilty of being a witch. of course the comic is an exaggeration, but from some of the other articles I have read, It was still pretty easy to guilty of being a witch. I also learned that a witch was someone who made a pact with the devil, which is how they would get their power. To make that pact you would have to sign the devils book. That is another reason Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne were suspects was because Tibuta (a slave accused with Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne)saw those names in the devils book.
Here is my question:
How did you decide what the different categories were going to be? eg. people, events and culture and beliefs.
Justin J. Nekrosius 6-7
I learned that they took witch craft so seriously but i still don't understand how Abigail Hobbs was accused. If she was caught doing something then their would have been witnesses that testified against her. I also learned that men were accused of witch craft too. From every thing we have studied i never knew that men were accused. I also learned that their was way to much of untrustworthy people. That connects to the french and indian war because most of the indians went with the french but their were a few tribes that joined with the british so lots of indians had to kill some of their own. It also relates because king Philip was shot by an indian when he was taking a walk around his camp. Where did you find that men were accused of witch craft
Andrew B. Nekrosius 6/7
I learned that the court decided whether or not to use spectral evidence by itself. That fifty people signed a petition to say that Rebecca Nurse was innocent but she was hung anyway. and that King phillips war was from 1675 to 1676. a connection between my group article and another article is that I wrote about Oyer and Terminer and an article said that the court decided to use spectral evidence. I want to ask why the links at the top of the page do not work.
Tobias Nekrosius 6/7
I learned from reading the newspaper that people in Salem took the hunting of witches very seriously, nobody needed any legitimate evidence to get a warrant for the arrest of innocent citizens. Another thing I learned was that people would have the option of confessing that they were a witch and then they would be released, which I question the logic of that. Also I learned that women in Salem often helped men with their jobs which is unusual.
A connection between my project (The Trial of Anne Hutchinson) and the Salem Witch Trial was that both Salem and the Massachusetts Bay Colony were based around religion and were both patriarchies. The question that I have for the webmasters is what program(s) did you use to make this website?
-Eamonn Nekrosius 6-7
When I read the Salem Times, I was very interested in all the articles. I learned what a woman had to do in order to be a "Dutiful Wife," and that life sounds very lonely. I also found out that Betty did the "egg and husband" test and saw a coffin instead. Because of that, she is said to have started acting mysterious. Also, I never knew about how the fur trade connected with Europe and Salem as a whole. Something similar between my article, Behind the Trials and Torture and the Main Article, Court of Oyer and Terminer Dissolved. This is because my article focused on the law aspect of the SWT. The 6/7 article also does, but more about the trials after, or when the court system was dissolved. Something to ask: I'm actually re-asking Jennifer's question. Did the makers of the 6/7 newspaper use some form of HTML? Or did they use iWeb or something.
Great job to all!
Marissa MNekrosius1/2
When I read period 1/2's newspaper, I learned several things about Rebecca Nurse. I never realized how ill she was before and when she was accused.I also never knew how many disputes that the Nurses and the Putnams had. I also read an article about
Ergot Poisoning. I learned that it may have caused many other events besides the Salem Witch Trials.
One connection I made was from a Increase Mather's quote. I remember reading it when I was researching for my individual article. Another connection I have is from Simone's article. Her article was about Ergot Poisoning and I included the theory of the Ergot Poisoning in my individual article.
The one question I have for the webmasters is how they decide on which articles to put on the front page
Annika Nekrosius 6/7
One thing I learned from the 1/2 period Salem Witch Trials newspaper is that the argument against spectral evidence by Increase Mather was submitted as his wife was about to be accused.
Another thing I learned is that during King Philip's War, the Indians actually came in the dark and attacked villages.
Finally, I learned that Giles Corey was crushed not for persisting with the thought of his innocence, but for not responding to the judges of Salem entirely.
A connection I made between my article, my group article, the current humanities unit, and the article about Giles Corey is that there were many rebels during the time of the Salem witch trials.
My question is for Will Curry:
For how long did they press Giles Corey and how much weight did they add on to the board?
Fred S.
Nekrosius 6/7
I have learned a few new things, but first I would like to criticize the Salem group (1-2) (my group). I would also like to make some comments about the other group. Some stuff I would like to say about my group is compared to the other group our website didn't look good. I liked how professional the other groups website looked, the background was nice, I also liked how they bullet pointed all the articles. I haven't checked the updated newspaper in ours but the other group has their ads on the front page and it looks really good.
I looked over the John Proctor article and it said he was from Ipswich, Massachusetts and when I researched background for my John Proctor article--I discovered that he was from England. Either I didn’t check my facts well enough, or they did not. Now some things I learned were that Tituba married a man name John Indian, Samuel Parris married Elizabet Elridge, and Samuel Parris told the girls to accuse people.
Jacob H Nekrosius 1-2
I learned that there was a pattern for the accusations of Sarah Good, Sarah Osborn, and Tituba. All were of low status and they had no one--at least, no one of higher status than them-- to give support. I also learned that there is a possibility that ergot poisoning caused the hallucinations and fits of the girls. I also am interested that John Proctor could beat or threaten his maid because of her fits and she would stop. This could be more evidence that the girls were lying.
I have a few questions. For the designers, in some pages the links won't work, I can't see an image, and the font is a little hurtful on the eyes... is this intentional or just a glitch? Also for the content, I find that the "Ask the Accusers" article was very interesting. But why is the image bread? My final question is what happened to the title and author of the cover article? I'd like to know who wrote it. Sorry for so many questions.
Janine Nekrosius 6-7
i learned many things about the trial. First of i learned that the trial happened in 1692. I also learned that a person named Tituba was the person that started the witch hunt my telling many people scary voodoo stories from were she came from. I learned that there were two kinds of witch craft i also leaned that most of the people accused for witch were not welf off and usually were poor and of a different religion.
There were two big connections i notice between the salem witch trial and the trial of anne hutchinson. Both of them were trials and both were located in or very close near the Masachuesetts bay colony.
I have Two questions is did who have to email the papers to one person in which put all of them together or did you all just work together on the process. My second question is i could not find any comics or games i was wondering if you put them on the werbsite or are they just not there?
Danny R. Nekrosius 1/2
I learned that the Puritans practiced a religion called Calvinism which is named after John Calvin. I also learned that right up to the point of their death, witches were humiliated. A vicious crowd of people would come and watch the witch's hanging and they would mock the witch. The third thing I learned was that the judges were not always official judges. Sometimes they were witch hunters or magistrates. I found many similarities and connections between my article about the role of women in a Puritan society and Ilana's article (A Tale of Two Roles). We both wrote about the same thing so it was very interesting to me to see how our articles were the same and how they were different. My question is not so much for one particular person but for the whole group. What time period are you writing from? Now or in the days of the trials?
Elsa E. Nekrosius 6/7
As a member of the 1-2 period Salem Witch Trials newspaper it became a little bit more difficult to find something that i did not know. But when i actually started reading these i found multiple things that surprised me one of them being that children were dressed like adults at a young age so that they would look mature. Another thing that i found interesting was reading more about the Malleus Maleficarum something that i only touched the surface on, and lastly about Governor Phipps and the way that people look at him today.
I wrote about Giles Corey and in the article about Giles Corey in the Salem Times i saw many similar facts and some new ones that i did not know. For example i knew that Corey was not well respected but i was never able to find out why. I was able to find this in the article. i had no idea that Corey had murdered a man, and i thought that was very interesting.
Something that i would like to ask the
Authors is what kind of resources they used to get the information e.g; web sites, books etc....
WillC Nekrosius 1-2
I learned many things from the New World Times. I learned that just a four and a half year-old child was arrested. The child was a little girl, by the name of Dorcas Good. She was Sarah Good’s daughter. I learned that Dorcas also had an infant sibling that also died in jail. Dorcas was majorly psychologically harmed. She did not speak for the rest of her life, after she was pardoned. I did not know that Giles Corey was killed at the age of 80. He was an uneducated farmer. Corey was married four times. He convicted his last wife of witchcraft. She was killed. I did not know that Rebecca Nurse was killed at the age of 71, when she was bedridden. Rebecca Nurse honestly believed that the witches were bewitched. All the articles in the New World Times newspaper had a bias against the Salem Witch Trials. All the journalists considered this period of our history to be shameful. I, in my article, also considered the trials to be a bad thing. I believe I came to this conclusions because I do not believe in witches. I would assume that the journalists of the New World Times do not believe in witches either.
What is the overall topic of the article on the home page?
Isabel L. Nekrosius 6/7
As I was reading the newspaper, I learned that the witch-hunt had no purpose. It was just some girls having fun. I also learned that if someone were to be accused of being a witch that person would have a better chance of survival if they just confessed. Even if it was true. The third thing that I learned was that a childs education was less important than religion.
When I was preparing for the movie, I had to research Anne Hutchinston. I made a comparison between the research and the newspaper. The Quakers are just like the 'Witches'. The puritans don't like either one, and only because their different.
The question I had is what it hard to get the newspaper online?
Tamera L. Nekrosius 1/2
Through the salem witch trials unit and by reading The New World Times, I learned that the Puritans were a neurotic group people who blamed others for almost everything. I learned that religion played an enormous part all witch trails throughout the years, because it is in the Bible that you have to kill witches. I also learned that most of the girls did have the symptoms of ergot poisoning, even if we are not sure whether there was ergot on the rye.
I think that the ergot poisoning could have a lot to do with my article (Treacherous Tales: The Stories That Killed) because when Tituba told her stories, there was probably a little snack served along with her stories. Not only could have Abigail, Betty, Anne Jr...etc been eating the ergot, Tituba herself could have been eating it as well. If Tituba was eating the ergot, then maybe she really believed what she was saying because she was hallucinating it. Or even if Tituba did not have ergot poisoning, she could have still believed what she was telling the little girls because that was her religion. Even though ergot is only one of the theories of why the salem witch trails began. It might be possible that their rye was infected with ergot.
My question for the web designers is how they got the page that you are on disappear from the top of the page.
Emma R. Nekrosius 6/7
1) I have read the main article and some other articles about the "Salem Witch Trials". They are all very interesting. The first thing I have learned is that the Witches and sometimes certain animals, where the Devil's servants. The Witches made a deal with the Devil. The Devil would protect them and there family or what ever they wanted that was not unreasonable. In exchange the person who is now a witch must spread corruption famine and bad things. the second thing I learned is how unfair the the court system was, almost no one treated the accused so called Witches fairly. that led to all those innocent lives lost. The third thing I have learned is most of the dates this happened. On 1692 the Witch hunt began, on June 2 1692 the first formal court was brought in to salem, on april 19 1692 the first witch was tried, and in 1693 after lots of misdoing and mistake in the trials that specific court was dissolved.
2) A connection between my project and the Salem Witch Trials was the court trials. They where both not fair and both where related to religion. In my project, Anne Hutchinson was preaching a different view of christianity, and the Puritans did not like that in there colony. So the puritans banished all her followers and friends that could of supported her in the trial. In the Salem Witch Trials it was a little different, anybody that was accused of being a Witch, the judges believed to be a Witch. The religion was related because these's events where all caused by belief in christianity. On my project's side, a argument over what is the right way to believe in god and christianity. On the Salem Witch Trials side, fear of Witches from the bible causing famine, disease, death, etc.
3) For my question, I would like to ask the webmaster,
"what what programing system did you use for example like TextEdit"?
From Charlie.M Nekrosius
1.I read the part about Tituba. She was a women who told her master's daughter about this scary story she learned back in her home in Barbados. the two girls she told Abigail and Betty were really interested by these stories. Then they started to act weird. They started to bark in church. They went to see a doctor but the doctor told them they were bewitched. Betty and Abigail thought they were in big trouble so the lied and said that Tituba was a witch. To save her life Tituba said she was a witch(but really was not). By saying she was a witch she made the town fearful. Any women who denied being a witch were hanged. Tituba was let out of jail after waiting for 8 months and then waited an outer year for someone to pay her out of jail.
2. Another thing I learned it that sarah good had a father who was wealthy. He had a lot of money from his inn business. After his wife remarried, she took all of his money with her. That money was supposed to be for their seven daughters.
Shoshana H. Nekrosius 1-2
I knew people believed that witches were real and that they would have trials for them. But i never new how crazy the prosecutors were. In the 6/7 paper I read the part on how to tell if someone is a witch and they have some pretty weird ideas like,
Witch Cake: Baking a witch cake is easy. Just use the power of white magic to discover the identity of the witch who is afflicting someone. Mix and bake together rye meal and urine from the burdened girls, and feed it to a dog. When the dog eats the cake, the witch herself will be hurt because invisible particles she had sent to afflict the girls remains in the afflicted girls’ urine. The witch will cry out in pain when the dog eats the cake. This is how you can identify her as a witch.(taken from newspaper)
i also learned that people thought religion is more important that education, that is weird. I also did not know that over one hundred people were accused of being a witch and over twenty were executed because people thought they were witches.
One connection I made is that in the trial of Anne Hutchinson the women had almost no rights and I also see this in the witch trials that women did not have a say in wether or not they were a witch.
One question I have for the designers is how did they make it so if you clicked on a link it took you to a new page.
Zachary Nekrosius 1/2
Three things I learned from the Salem Times were
a) That between 1692 and 1693 the people of Salem, Massachusetts held a special court (Court of Oyer and Terminer )for the trial of people accused of being witches.
b) Many innocent people (mostly young girls) were arbitrarily accused of being witches and were hanged. The evidence used against them was considered sufficient if anyone complained of being tormented by the 'witch's spectre'
c) It was later found that many of the victims of the witch hunt were girls with mental illness or ergot poisoning which caused strange behavior.
I see a connection between the Salem trials and the Trial of Ann Hutchinson in that the people of Colonial USA tended to be very accusatory and judgemental, especially in religious matters, and held trials to quickly sentence the accused to terrible fates including death. There was no freedom to follow ones own ideas and interpretations. People were expected to think and behave in a certain way.
One question I have of the designers is whether it would be possible to have paper versions of the newspaper so that we could see it as it would have been in those days.
Tiboo Nekrosius 1/2
By reading the newspaper from the morning class, I learned a lot of new things. For example, I learned that Giles Corey, the man who was pressed and killed by stone, was 80years old and has always be very stubborn and anti-social. Also, I learned that Samuel Sewall, a judge who later publicly apologized to the Salem people after the witchcraft, had very good education and was very rich. He was born on March 28, 1652 and later went to Harvard University. Last but not least, I learned that familiars are animals employed by the Devil to serve witches and do their evil biddings.
One of the connections I made was about King Philip’s War—the article I read was mostly arguing that the Indians fought the war for land, but through my research I also found out that the fur trade and the unfair treatment were also part of the conflict.
Last of all, I have one question in my mind that I would like to ask the webmasters of the newspaper—Why didn’t the “Home”, “History and Misc”, and “Law and Politics” buttons work in the personal articles? Why does nothing happens when I click them when I’m reading one of the articles?
Wanqi Nekrosius 6/7
I read an article about Tituba. Something that i learned from the article is that Tituba would tell her masters daughters, Abigail and Sarah strange voodoo story's that fascinated the two. After a while the girls started acting strange and would misbehave and have fits and tantrums .for example they would start barking at church or throw hot coals around in a room so a doctor was sent in to check on the two and said that they were bewitched. After a while they got afraid that they were causing to much trouble so they began accusing other people in the village of being witches and the first person they accused was Tituba. Tituba was not hanged but instead thrown in jail because she confessed of being a witch, after 8 years she was released. Topic 2: one connection i made is that there are very serious arguments between the girls listening to tituba's stories and the law and also the native Americans and the Colonists because, when the Native Americans were asked to become christian and they disagreed with the colonists to become christian this was also a serious argument. QUESTION: how Did you pick who was going to be studying and writing "witch" topic? Lilia W.Nekrosius 1/2
I read the interview with Abigail Williams. I also read the article on the front page. What I learned was that the people who were accusing people of being witches were actually young girls who were not powerful. The people believed that witchcraft was related to the devil and dark magic. I also learned that the witch trials began in 1692 and that afterwards everyone was sorry and embarrassed.
For my project I made a mural about Mary Rowlandson. A connection I saw was that the Puritans did not like anything that was not what they thought was normal. They hated anything that was not Christian. Mary Rowlandson did not like the Native Americans because they were different from the Puritans and were not Christian. The people of Salem did not like the so called witches because they were different and not Christian. Another thing that I noticed while reading the New World Times was that even though women were in the minority and did not have many rights many of the projects seemed to be about women. The salem witch trials were about women, Mary Rowlandson was a woman, and so was Anne Hutchenson.
A question I have for the writers of the Interview with Abigail Williams is Did the girls actually believe there were witches and that they were telling the truth? They seemed very uncomfortable like they were lying, but at the end it says they actually believed the people were witches.
Grace K. Nekrosius 1-2
I learned that the witches were blamed for all of the war and tension between the French, British, and natives. I also learned that King William's War was like King Philip's War. The natives were raiding British villages and killing a lot of British people in both wars. In addition, I learned that the Salem Witch Trials were started by such a small thing. A slave told children scary stories and because of that, over 20 people were killed and many more were accused of witchcraft. I found a connection between the French and Indian War (my mural project) and many witch trials. Both were started by tensions between France and Britain. Many people thought that these tensions and problems were because of witches. The French and Indian War was started by territorial disputes between France and Britain. I have a question for the makers of the period 6-7 newspaper. Why is there just one main article?
Alec K. Nekrosius 6-7
I first thing I learned from this newspaper was that this event took place in the Salem Village. I always thought the name had no meaning. I knew it was something related to the event but not where it actually took place.I never knew there was a pre-trial examination. I thought there was just one big trial, like in the Anne Hutchinson event. There was only one big scene. i kind of see why they might have needed this pre-trial. It was like a investigation.I also learned that they did not need a lot of evidence to fill such a strong complaint. I guess that's another reason why they needed the pre-trials.One connection between the Salem Witch Trial and the Anne Hutchinson case is the trial is just alike. They both have the same kinds of judges and the "witches" and Anne Hutchinson were both wrongly prosecuted. In either of these trials they really did not have enough information or evidence to actually banish or kill these people. The judges in both trials already had there minds made up, guilty.
My question is to The Salem Times.Why do your cartoons say basically the same thing as the rest of the paper? No fun facts? Nothing is really different.
But great job!
Alana .W. Nekrosius
1. I learned that before a session, the court would have to decide whether to use “spectral evidence”. Once that decision is made, the trials would begin with the afflicted person describing to the court the activities of the witch. If the “witch” was convicted by the grand jury, the case would be presented to the court of Oyer and Terminer. They would then decide the fate of the defendant. If the defendant was found guilty, he/she would be hanged on a specific date.
2. I noticed a connection to my research in Owen’s article. He did a very good job with his article because he asked some very interesting and insightful questions. Our articles are similar because we both followed the same structure by centering our article around Elizabeth Parris, Abigail Williams, and Tituba.
3. A. To Akil R. Why did you chose the history of Salem as your topic?
B. To Simone E. Why do historians believe the rye crop fungus caused the girls to see the “spectral evidence”?
C. To Simone E. I love the “Ask the Accusers” column. I think it is a very creative way to tell the story about the witch trials. What inspired you to take this approach, and how do you come up with the questions presented in the letters to the accusers?
Nick Nekrosius 6/7
I read 8/9 period's newspaper. It was very neat and well done. I learned that the court of Oyer and Terminer was the first formal court in Salem.I also learned that salem was renamed Danvers after the witch trials. It was a way to show that they have changed and regretted the trials. Lastly, I learned that Anne Putman accused George Burroughs of organizing witch meetings and held the book of the devil.
In both my article and the article I read mentioned Calvinism the religion of the Puritans. In the article I read it mentioned different names for the devil, I thought that was really interesting. In the article I read I got the sense that having such a strict religion was bad, but in my article I tried to say that it was good.
I have a question for Eliza E's article: Do you think Reverend Cotton Mather really thought that George burroughs was guilty?
Nikki K. Nekrosius 1/2
I learned that the people of Salem wanted the trials to stop. Before that I heard that the people of salem would turn people in because they wanted people to think they were not witches. I knew the people were scared but not as scared as it said in the article. Second thing I learned is that the Salem Witch Trials happened before the American Revolution. The American Revolution happened partially because of the Salem. Third thing I learned about the trials is I thought they killed evryone they delt with. They only killed about twenty percent which is not good but it is better than what I thought it was. I also learned that the puritans contributed what they believed in even more.they err sort of like the animals in animal farm. One question I have for the webmasters is did you already know how to post it online it did you learn? If you learned, how quickly did you do the url things?
Alex 6/7 Nekrosious
The three things I learned about the people of Salem was that they were constantly thinking about being predestined and looking at each other for signs of grace. The people of Salem were also very superstitious. They thought that you could be a Witch if you could float on water or if you owned cats or any other animals. The puritans also wanted to be “on top of a hill” so everyone in England would think that the way Puritans prayed and respected God was the right way. This is why they left England.
I read Simone E.’s article on Sickness or Satan in Salem, and find this a very interesting topic. I have a few Questions for Simone: I was wondering if people actually knew if there was such thing called Ergot Poisoning?
I found a connection in the article about the Ergot Poisoning as well. I have read about the Ergot poisoning but I did not include it in my article.
Sarah M Nekrosius 6-7
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