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** Drama and Performance in the Classroom Summer 2008 **
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Welcome to our //Crucible// and Process Drama website! As high school teachers, we know how difficult it can be to reach students and successfully teach literary elements through classic literature, such as //The Crucible//. Research has proven that **process drama** can be a successful technique to employ in the classroom, and each of us has had success in the past using some elements of it; therefore, we have done further research and created a sample lesson plan to teach the **literary conflict** present in //The Crucible// to high school students using performance and process drama.

The techniques we have chosen to employ can certainly be used in other lessons focusing on conflict, or other literature lessons. We have included a complete list of sources we used during this project (our Annotated Bib link on the left), as well as including some other articles/websites related to //The Crucible// and use of process drama (Research and Articles link on the left). Hopefully any or all of them can be helpful in planning lessons that utilize performance and process drama.

Below is a link to Sparknotes, in case anyone is unfamiliar with the basic plot and historical context of the play. For more in-depth information and analysis of the play, and uses of **process drama**, please refer to our "Research and Articles" and "Annotated Bib" links.

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/crucible/