Internet resource guide

Brief History of the Salem Witch Trials

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/brief-salem.html

Causes for the Outbreak of Witchcraft Hysteria in Salem

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/salemcauses.html

Famous American Trials: Salem Witchcraft Trials 1692

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/salem.htm

The Jonathan Corwin House also known as The Witch House

http://www.salemweb.com/witchhouse/

National Geographic: Salem Witchcraft Hysteria

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/salem/

Salem Witch Museum

http://www.salemwitchmuseum.com/

Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcript Project

http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/

Salem Witch Trials Memorial

http://www.salemweb.com/memorial/memorial.shtml

Secrets of the Dead: Salem Witch Trials Interactive Map

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/previous_seasons/case_salem/salem.html

Secrets of the Dead: Salem Witch Trials Video Clips from Witch Trials

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/previous_seasons/lessons/lp_salem_videos.html

Mary Rowlandson, The Narrative of the Captivity and the Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682)

Goody Corey asked Deliverance Trembly to her house to read the bible as well as a newly published account of life on the frontier.  Deliverance is asked to read the Narrative of the Captivity and the Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682)  which accounts one frontier womans and her three children experience as  captives of Native American tribe. 

Read the entire original text on Project Gutenberg's website.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/851

Why is Deliverance "walking in dread?"

Why is Deliverance Trembley’s story titled

I Walk in Dread?

Dowry

What was Mem’s dowry when she married Darcy Cooper?

Who would you believe?

Why do you believe the villagers believed the afflicted girls over the denial of the accused women?

"The affliction"

What was “the affliction?” Who were the first afflicted girls, and how did they behave?

Devils all around

In her 30

th of January diary entry, Liv writes about an angry exchange between Goody Corey and Mem. When Mem called the Indians “Devils,” Goody Corey explained they were just men who had a different belief about what it means to own land.  Reread that entry. What was Goody Corey trying to get Mem to understand?