tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36269954.post5225579993956625948..comments2023-04-02T09:35:25.342-05:00Comments on University of Chicago Lab School: Salem Witch Trials Newspaper Project -- What Can You Learn?Peggy Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14370361262009536471noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36269954.post-33812817012772155052012-12-02T13:00:30.221-06:002012-12-02T13:00:30.221-06:00After looking and reading at the news paper I was ...After looking and reading at the news paper I was very impressed. learned that the reason "witches" were sent to trail was not because they were practicing "witch craft", it was because they were being told stories about magic and fortune tellers. i also learned that the that the village had been holding witch trials since "witch craft" had been discovered. I also learned that in september 22 of 1693 was the last of the so-called witch trials. The salem witch trials was like the French and Indian war because they both had conflict and were around the same period of time. i had a question about why there was an ad in one of the sections. Overall I thought the newspapers were very good and well thought out. Though I could find very little ways the french and Indian war had i common with the salem witch trials.<br /><br />-Jenna Pandolfi<br /> Doyle 1-2<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36269954.post-39695008458615741932012-11-30T13:14:03.744-06:002012-11-30T13:14:03.744-06:00When I read the newspaper I learned many things ab...When I read the newspaper I learned many things about the Puritans and the Salem witch trials. The readings say that the citizens of Salem were charged and not given a chance to explain themselves. Then they would be given an unfair trial and be forced to admit that they were witches so they would not have to be killed. But that meant they would not go to heaven. So, they would either die in one world or the other.<br /><br />Second, I learned that men called witch hunter’s tortured people if they would not admit that they were witches. This is how they would torture people according to Terrence Travis: "A person’s wrists are tied behind their back with a rope, the rope is then hoisted over a beam until the person is high in the air. The rope is then dropped repeatedly until their shoulders are dislocated."<br /><br />Third, I learned that the reason there was witchcraft was because the Puritan's religion and their politics were unstable, which causes disputes between people in the society. So when one person didn’t like another person, he accused him or her of witchcraft. <br /><br />A good example of how people accused others involves a group of little girls who started a magic club based on a couple of stories told by a lady named Tituba. When these girls were going to get into trouble about their secret club they falsely accused Tituba of witchcraft. As Giacomo G. writes, “The girls had not meant to accuse their friend, Tituba, but they did not want to get into trouble.” Tituba ends up saying that she was a witch so that she would not be tortured, even though she was actually not guilty. <br /><br />I would connect the stories about witchcraft with the trial of Ann Hutchinson. Some reasons why these stories are connected is because in both cases you were dealing with Puritans, and they religiously intolerant and would believe almost anything that was said about other people. Basically, it seems that all of the Puritans were gullible and that made it easy to accuse people of things that they did not do. Both Ann and the people who were accused of being witches were unfairly accused and unfairly killed<br /><br />My question is: if the Puritans end up becoming Calvinists and Calvinists believe everybody is in contact with God, then why are the witches not in contact with God? <br />Davenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36269954.post-42710981031032270722012-11-29T20:43:38.172-06:002012-11-29T20:43:38.172-06:00Cecile Ngo
Period 5-6
One thing that i learned whe...Cecile Ngo<br />Period 5-6<br />One thing that i learned when I first started reading was that if you were accused you were immediately put to trial. I learned that mostly older woman and people who had miscarriages or did not go to church. Some were even accused because of their looks. Tituba was one of the hundreds of man and women accused of being a witch. She was born in the Arawak in south america and had no idea that the stories about magic she told to the children. I also learned that if you were accused of witchcraft you could not defend yourself. She said that she was a witch and that she signed the book of the devil but really she just said it to maybe have a better chance of living and to stop being beaten. A connection between the Puritans and the Salem witch trials is that both were very paranoid by what they believed in and what they wanted. The puritans believed in one religion and wanted a society/community to have only people who believe in the same religion. Salem wanted to banish all the people who were witches but they kept killing and jailing everyone who were accused in any way. What would happen to a witch that floated when tied to a chair under water?<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36269954.post-56081765106988841032012-11-29T19:22:47.992-06:002012-11-29T19:22:47.992-06:00I learned that if two girls were just doing what t...I learned that if two girls were just doing what they were told the salem witch trials would have never happened. Betty Parris and Abigail Williams would go of during the day and listen to Tituba's stories about the devil. Betty and Abigail's little story sessions spread and soon 11 girls were listening to Tituba's stories. Some of the girls would start making animal noises and acting like animals. I also learned that back then in Salem people were very afraid of the Devil, so when little girls started acting strange they thought something was going on. These little girls starting accusing women of witch craft. The first three women these girls accused was Tituba, Sarah Osborne, and Sarah Good. Tituba ,being the first to get accused was beaten till she said her confessions. She confessed stories about flying broom sticks and about her sighning the book of the Devil. I learned finally that when people are afraid of getting accused they all turn on each other. When Tituba was being beaten she said she say Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne's names in the Devils book. This same sort of thing happened when other town folks were scared that the little girls was going to accuse them next. <br />Something I noticed between Anne Hutchinson's and the Salem Witch trials was that the higher authority of people and the judges were mostly men.<br />One question i have for the authors is how many women were killed during these Salem Witch trials?<br /><br />Thomas<br />pd.5-6<br />Doyle,PeggyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36269954.post-44959564550451600192012-11-29T18:12:25.714-06:002012-11-29T18:12:25.714-06:00I learned that if two girls were just doing what t...I learned that if two girls were just doing what they were told the salem witch trials would have never happened. Betty Parris and Abigail Williams would go of during the day and listen to Tituba's stories about the devil. Betty and Abigail's little story sessions spread and soon 11 girls were listening to Tituba's stories. Some of the girls would start making animal noises and acting like animals. I also learned that back then in Salem people were very afraid of the Devil, so when little girls started acting strange they thought something was going on. These little girls starting accusing women of witch craft. The first three women these girls accused was Tituba, Sarah Osborne, and Sarah Good. Tituba ,being the first to get accused was beaten till she said her confessions. She confessed stories about flying broom sticks and about her sighning the book of the Devil. I learned finally that when people are afraid of getting accused they all turn on each other. When Tituba was being beaten she said she say Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne's names in the Devils book. This same sort of thing happened when other town folks were scared that the little girls was going to accuse them next. <br />Something I noticed between Anne Hutchinson's and the Salem Witch trials was that the higher authority of people and the judges were mostly men.<br />One question i have for the authors is how many women were killed during these Salem Witch trials?<br /><br />Thomas<br />pd.5-6<br />Doyle,PeggyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36269954.post-63841197276091221122012-11-29T08:01:34.348-06:002012-11-29T08:01:34.348-06:00Ashwin A
Doyle 1-2
Three things I learned from th...<br />Ashwin A<br />Doyle 1-2<br /><br />Three things I learned from this article is that you could commit a bad crime in Salem like murder and not get punished because of you social status. For example: Giles Corey killed Jacob Goodell because he stole apples from Zechariah’s cellar (Jacob’s brother). He hid this crime up with an excuse that Jacob fell of a horse and died. He got away with this crime in trial because of his class, he had money and land.<br />The second thing I learned is that, for punishment in Salem, they got tortured instead of executed. An example of this torture was that rocks were layered onto a panel in which a person lay underneath. After two days being under a panel, Giles Corey died.<br />The last thing I learned was that in Salem, the people were afraid of witchcraft. Martha (Giles’ wife) was accused of being a witch but it is unclear as to what she did to make her get that title.Was it due to how she acted? Was it due t ohow she talked to people? <br /><br />A connection I found with this story and the French and Indian war is there was a lot unfairness. For example, in the Witch Trials, Martha (Giles' wife) was accused of being a witch but she denied it witch made people think that she was a witch. She was later found guilty for being a witch and was sent to jail. In the French and Indian war, there was a lot of unfairness towards the Indians, it was unfair to them that they had to protect their land when it wasn't necessary. <br /><br />The question I have for the author is "Did the people in Salem realize how unfair it was in the town? If so, why didn't they protest?"<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36269954.post-90081669579113308652012-11-29T04:59:20.881-06:002012-11-29T04:59:20.881-06:00In the Salem Witch Trials, I learned about differe...In the Salem Witch Trials, I learned about different people being innocently hanged because thought to be worshipers of the devil and not God, one of the most important figureheads to Salem and all of England. Like the Puritans in Anne Hutchinson, they quickly attempted to get rid of the Quakers to establish their peaceful utopia, but in Salem, their punishments were far harsher than just banishment. Instead, they are tortured brutally until they confess to their sins and get sent to be hanged. In this punishment, I think that both the Puritans and people at Salam believe in God more than the people of their colony. I think this is true because the Puritans punished all of those who opposed to god and had a different view of the Puritans God, primarily Anne Hutchinson and the Quakers. And in Salem, the primary sin is to be a witch, which would be something not of their religion because they don’t worship the devil. One of the witches named Rebecca Nurse, a nice woman who was very religious yet she was accused of witchcraft and was soon to be hanged. But from her kindness, the people of Salem had written her a petition in her defense. Even with all of the support she was found guilty of witchcraft and was sent away to die. This is a special trial because she was actually going to be called innocent by the head judge but his mind was changed by the judges around him. Another thing I learned is about the different rules that the Puritans made the children do. They were not allowed to play with toys, show emotion, or even not celebrate Christmas. Instead kids are supposed to get a job like crafting or sowing. Next, I learned about the foods in Salem. They mainly ate broth or pork and beef. For their coarse they might get mush or pudding. How did the trials end?<br /><br />Jacob Shkrob Period 5-6 11/28Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36269954.post-1493020397148729622012-11-28T23:55:17.826-06:002012-11-28T23:55:17.826-06:00Jessica
Doyle 5-6
While reading periods 5/6 news...Jessica <br />Doyle 5-6<br /><br />While reading periods 5/6 newspaper, I learned a lot of interesting information about the Salem Witch Trials. A man named Rodger Conant founded Salem in 1626. A lot of people think the reason women in Salem were treated a lot differently than men, is that men founded Salem. Women weren’t aloud to do a lot of the things that men did, like participate in town meetings. Some people think that this is why only women were accused of being witches (magic).<br /> There was a slave, Tituba. She is said to be the cause of the witch trials. She was the servant of Reverend Samuel Parris. When the reverend was not at home, Tituba would tell his children stories of witchcraft and magic. After a while, the children must have started to invite people because when Tituba told her stories, the group kept getting bigger. After the girls had been listening to the stories for a while, strange things happened to them. She later confessed that she was a witch and said that a man came to her and said, “Hurt the children.” And “Kill the children.” This was the begging of the Salem witch trials.<br /> There was a woman, Rebecca Nurse. She was accused of witchery at a very old age. Many believed her to be innocent, in fact, some people protested against her trial. During the trial, the jury and magistrates said the she was innocent, but some men told them to rethink it. There were a few ways to find out if someone was a witch. Someone could see it in a dream, some people would hunt for the witches, some women were told to read the ten commandments of the bible, and some were tortured. All of the ways to find out weather one was a witch or not, were very unreliable. <br /> I was in the documentary on Anne Hutchinson. In some ways the trial of Anne was similar to the witch Trials. Any time that there was a trial, it was because someone didn’t believe exactly what the puritans believed. Either that, or someone was suspicious about someone else. Both things were about the puritans only allowing what they believed to be right, come into their society.<br /> If I could ask one of the authors a question, it would be about their opinion on the practice of witchcraft. My question is “After researching on the witches, what do you think about them? Do you think that their witchcraft could have been real?”<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36269954.post-56754642603621768512012-11-28T22:06:16.279-06:002012-11-28T22:06:16.279-06:00I learned a lot of things I didn’t know before abo...I learned a lot of things I didn’t know before about the Salem Witch Trials after reading The New Englander, even though I was in the newspaper too. I knew that some people in Salem believed the cause of the girls’ fits was ergot poisoning or the Devil, but I did not know about the other possibilities people had suggested. In Jacob, Marc, and Finn’s article, “How it All Began”, I learned that some people believed the cause was wheat theory or fungus theory. The girls could have gotten food poisoning from the wheat they had eaten, or there could have been mold on their bread. However, the majority of the population believed that the girls were really possessed by the Devil. I also read Talia’s article, “To Hear and To Decide”, and the group article, “Blamed, Chained, and Brutally Hanged: The Life of an Innocent Rebecca Nurse-Taken.” From Talia’s article, I learned that a specter could be anything, such as a dog or a cricket. The afflicted could tell the court that his/her specter was tormenting him/her and the accused person would have his/her house searched. Rebecca Nurse was hanged on account of spectral evidence. And from David, Lily, and Elena’s article I learned a little more about Rebecca Nurse. Rebecca Nurse was considered a good symbol of “Puritan Piety.” She went to Church regularly and was well respected by the Salem community. When she was accused, many residents created a petition to defend her innocence. <br /><br />In Maya’s article, “The Proctors Accused,” she suggests that the reason the Proctors were accused was because they were related to Rebecca Nurse. My article was also about the Proctors, but focused mainly on John. I had concluded that the Proctors were accused just like anyone else. However, it makes sense to say Nurse affected the Proctors’ survival because her execution was one of the most important and significant ones. <br /><br />To the webmasters of The New Englander- What was fun, challenging, or interesting about being a Webmaster and creating an online newspaper? Would you recommend this task to someone who is in the newspaper project next year? Why or why not? <br /> <br />Alice<br />Doyle 1-2Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36269954.post-12959222175043481772012-11-28T21:15:15.706-06:002012-11-28T21:15:15.706-06:00I learned a lot about the Salem witch trials that ...I learned a lot about the Salem witch trials that I didn’t know before by reading a few articles in the 5-6 period class’ newspaper. The first article I read was the cover page article about Tituba. I learned that Tituba was born in Arawak village in South America and she was moved to Barbados where Reverend Parris bought her because Parris’ wife was very ill and the Parris’ needed help taking care of their children. I also learned that Tituba told many stories about being a witch not just the one about the devils book but also ones about specters and animals coming to tell her to hurt the children and kill them. The next article I read was about identifying a witch. I learned that another way to tell if someone is a witch is to have the accused person recite the Ten Commandments of the Bible. I learned that it was known that a witch, since she had signed a contract with the devil, could not recite the commandments without messing up. I also learned that some ways of torturing people into confessing were the turcas. The turcas was used by someone putting in their fingers into a black metal ring with holes in it that would twist their fingernails off. I also leaned a torture method called the strappado. How this method worked was that someone had their hands tied behind their back by a rope and then were hoisted up in the air. Then they were dropped down and pulled abruptly up until their shoulders were dislocated. The last article I read was an article on Giles Corey. I learned that he was 80 years old when he died on September 19, 1692. He was stubborn and ill tempered. He was a semi wealthy farmer but he was very sour. He actually accused his own wife of being a witch. Corey was crushed and suffocated over a 2-day period and refused to plead guilty because he knew that if he stayed silent that his sons would inherit his land and the government wouldn’t take it away. I learned a lot more then I already knew from reading the other classes newspaper even though I was in the Salem witch trials project myself. I think that the 5-6 class did a great job and I learned a lot from their newspaper.<br /><br />Aden<br />Doyle 1-2<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36269954.post-55308988597583382342012-11-28T20:44:58.640-06:002012-11-28T20:44:58.640-06:001. I learned many things from Miles L-G’s article...1. I learned many things from Miles L-G’s article about Tituba. I learned that people in the New England community acted very paranoid to anybody who might disrupt the harmony of the community. They were so paranoid that they ended up disrupting the harmony of the community themselves. They were a community that wanted to become a utopia, but became a dystopia in the process. Also, I learned that people put trust in people they should not have. People trusted Betty and Abigail, who claimed that the reason the said weird things in church was because they had been enchanted by Tituba, who they claimed was a witch. They did not trust Tituba, even though she was completely innocent and was not in any way witchlike. Why trust two people who say random things in church instead of a perfectly logical, clearly innocent person. This leads to the final thing I learned. I learned that social status played a huge part in New England communities. Abigail and Betty were trusted because they were normal Puritans, while Tituba was not trusted because she was a slave. This explains why Tituba was convicted when she was obviously innocent.<br />2. Both the Salem Witch Trials and the trial of Anne Hutchinson showed clear signs of injustice and distrust. The Witch Trials were not just because all of the “witches” were innocent, and were falsely accused and convicted. The same thing happened to Anne Hutchinson. She disagreed slightly with what the ministers were preaching and held meetings in her house about the sermons that the ministers preached. This was all it took to get her convicted. Also, in the Salem Witch Trials, nobody trusted the “witches”, because a person accused them as an excuse for their stupidity. Also, the ministers in the trial of Anne Hutchinson did not trust Anne because she disagreed slightly with what they were preaching and was a woman. Both trials were clear examples of distrust and injustice<br />3. For Miles L-G: Why did Betty and Abigail accuse Tituba of being a witch? Couldn’t they have found a less harmful excuse? Did they have a grudge against Tituba? If so for what reason? <br />John McKee<br />Doyle 1-2<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36269954.post-52935180887446354952012-11-28T20:38:25.022-06:002012-11-28T20:38:25.022-06:001. I learned a lot of interesting things about the...1. I learned a lot of interesting things about the Salem Witch Trials. All of the so called "witches" were wrongly accused with no evidence other than the couple things that they all had in common: they either didn't go to church, or had a mix raced child or a miscarriage. The women accused were mainly older women, and the accusations were ridiculous and fake. They were not given a chance to defend themselves. <br />2. A connection between the Anne Hutchinson project and the Salem Witch Trials would be that Anne and the "witches" were both not able to defend themselves, or in the Salem Witch Trials, no chance at all. Anne Hutchinson was given an unfair trial, as all of her judges had biases toward banishing her for teaching people things they did not believe in. The so called witches were given no chance at all, so they were simply killed. <br />3. A question for Florence Almeda, the author of the article I read. How many people were killed in the Salem Witch Trials, and what is the pattern you mentioned in your article?<br /><br />Ilana Weisbach<br />Humanities 5-6<br />Ms. DoyleAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36269954.post-17811383879730509552012-11-28T19:42:04.498-06:002012-11-28T19:42:04.498-06:00In the article "Guilty until proven innocent&...In the article "Guilty until proven innocent" I learned that most of the woman who were accused of being witches didn't have men to defend them. This made the women easier to accuse. For instance when Sarah Good was accused even her husband accused her for being a witch, as well as Sarah Osborne whose husband had died and had gotten in trouble for living with another man . The second thing I learned in the article was that not only people of a lower class were accused but those of a higher class as well. Martha Corey, a well respected woman who took church seriously was accused for being very opinionated. Throughout the year the girls who had gone around accusing people had called out on people like magistrates, merchants, and the wife of the Governor (Lady Phipps). Near the end of the article I learned that as the girls called out on more and more people especially those of a higher class the trials and accusations went down. This was because after the higher class had been accused spectral evidence or evidence that was used against the accused, was banished. Some of the common things between the Salem witch trials and the trial of Anne Hutchinson are that both the trials were held by men and men only. I would like to ask the author about the differences between the Salem witch trials and the witch trials of the other colonies.<br /><br />Rachel S.<br />Humanities 5-6<br />11/28/12<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36269954.post-70476018206489504202012-11-28T19:28:53.879-06:002012-11-28T19:28:53.879-06:00 Three things that I learned about Salem and the ... Three things that I learned about Salem and the Salem witch trial are some ways of torturing people, things about children, and food that people ate. I also learned that people who lived in Salem had something in common with the Pilgrims I leaned about. A way that people tortured people who would not confess to doing witchcraft was with Bootikens. They were boots that went from the ankle to the knee and were used for breaking bones of people. Another way of torture was Strappado. That was when someone’s wrists were tied behind their back and then pulled up and then were dropped down until the person’s shoulders were dislocated. Another thing that I learned was some things about the children. Boys got jobs outside of the house while girls did jobs inside the house that didn’t involve as much labor as the boys jobs. Girl and Boys wore vests until they were old enough to start wearing different clothes. Boys and girls wore simple clothes. Boys wore linen shirts with long coats and girls wore layered skirts. Another think I learned is what people at as food in Salem. Children ate porridge for breakfast. For dinner people also ate bread a much of pudding. One thing that the Puritans and the Pilgrims had in common was that they were very detocated to their religion. The Puritans wanted to have every child be able to read the bible. They didn’t want to live in the same town as people who didn’t share their religion. The Pilgrims moved to the New World and left behind people they loved so that they could be the religion they wanted without being hurt. They even wanted to convert all of the Natives that they lived with into Christians to the point when the Natives started war with them because they were taking their lives over too much. A question I have is why did people stay in Salem if so many people were being convicted of witchcraft, even it they were risking their lives staying?<br /><br />Clara<br />Doyle 5-6Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36269954.post-21484559292358038742012-11-28T18:55:14.683-06:002012-11-28T18:55:14.683-06:00Sageus
Humanities 1-2
In all of the things I lear...Sageus<br />Humanities 1-2<br /><br />In all of the things I learned in ‘The New Englander’ the following are by far the most intriguing. First and foremost I greatly enjoyed the first article and how the writers add stories told by the witch (Tituba). The article also had a fun introduction sentence; ‘“You put the egg white in the water, and let it sink. If you do this right, you will be able to see the face of your future husband”’ The second thing that caught my eye was ‘A Not So Happy Ending’ it was a good story although quite brutal. I liked the facts that this story put forth, many of which were interesting such as, “The girls who were accusing people were starting to call people witches that were really great people, ones who would never be thought of as devils.” In that sentence they portrayed ther opion fact and they did it rather nicely. And finally my third favorite was the comic under the Editorials link it was very well done. One of my favorite things about this comic was the first scene where the "witch" was being hanged and how the artist depicted the tears and the reaction. When I looked through the newspaper I found many signs of violence and this reminded me of the gore in the story of Anne Hutchinson. I found that in both the people/government (people= trials gov.= Anne) did not tolerate an "different" people and both tried to have everyone believe and be the same thing. I came up with a VERY general question: What was the coolest most interesting thing you learned in all your studies of the trail?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36269954.post-68243305872279835482012-11-28T18:54:11.506-06:002012-11-28T18:54:11.506-06:00I learned many things from the newspaper I read. I...I learned many things from the newspaper I read. I learned that the whole "accusing" event happened because two little girls accused their father's servant of being a witch. I also learned that anyone (mostly women) could be accused of wichcraft and that if you were accused, there would be very little you could do in your defense other than admit that you were a witch. However if you did not admit to being a witch, you would be beaten or even hung. <br /><br />Although everything the puritans did was harsh and unfair, they got the idea that women were mostly witches because of the story of Adam and Eve, where Eve eats the forbidden fruit because a snake persuades her. The salem witch trials have caused the "evolution" of the community of salem to be disturbted because what the puritans did was ridiculous. They actually believed two little girls and started accusing others. The poor slave was not even doing anything but telling the two girls stories and making non traditional medicine. Even when women did confess about being a witch, the confession was a lie. Nobody was, is or ever will be a witch. The women only said that they were witches to save their lives and not get beaten up. However after the confession they were either hanged or burned on a wooden stake. The salem witch trials have a very strong connection with the trial of Anne Hutchinson, because both the people of salem and Anne Hutchinson were accused because they were different or had different ideas (the puritans wanted everyone to be the same so they did not like people with different ideas, even if those ideas were very good ones). Another thing that connects the salem witch trials and the trial of Anne Hutchinson is that both the people of salem and people like Anne Hutchinson were killed or banished in the name of GOD. <br /><br />If there was one thing that I would like to ask the web masters it would be : is there any way to prove yourself innocent when you are accused? <br />Arjun Dhar per 2 PEGGY DOYLE.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36269954.post-13280773304602666082012-11-28T18:52:15.447-06:002012-11-28T18:52:15.447-06:00The Salem witch trials are a very scary time in hi...The Salem witch trials are a very scary time in history. By looking at Mr. Nekrosius's classes' newspapers, anybody can find a lot of information on the trials. One thing I learned about was the Devil's book and the "witches". The people of Salem believed that the devil would come up to the so-called "witch" and ask them to sign his book. This is what made that person a witch. An example of someone being accused of witchcraft is a slave named Tituba. When the kids of the house that Tituba worked in were small, she would tell them stories about magic, fortune telling, and spirits. But soon the kids would "fall into random fits of hysterics". Tituba was blamed. She was carried off to prison and soon put on trial. At the trial, the judge, Samuel Sewall, asked Tituba if she was a witch. When she denied, they beat her until she confessed. This happened to many other women, in fact, hundreds and hundreds of women were accused of witchcraft.<br /> Another fact about the witch trials I learned about was how this period of distrust was started. It all started in 1692,because of two girls named Abigail Williams and Betty Parris. These girls happened to be the kids Tituba was telling the stories to. The girls wanted to keep Tituba's stories a secret, because they did not want their parents to find out. But as the secret spread, more and more girls came to listen. Once the girls started throwing the fits described above, they were brought to a doctor. The doctor concluded that these fits were caused by the devil. This began the witch-hunt.<br /> One other fact I learned about the trials was the about court procedures. When the court was made, it was separated from the church. This was done because the church is holy, not a place for the devil. I learned about the procedure of the court, this is how it is put in the newspaper-"The court follows a specific procedure. First, an afflicted person goes to the magistrates, and accuses another of witchcraft. The magistrate then has the accused witch arrested. The suspected witch is inspected thoroughly by a couple magistrates. If the magistrates believe that the person is guilty, the accused person is sent back to jail and awaits another examination and trial." If the person is accused of being guilty at the trial, a date is set for the person's death sentence.<br /> For my project, I did the first thanksgiving. The two events are very different from each other. But one part in both events is alike. In both stories, the people are very religious. Both groups are very devoted to Christianity.<br /> One question (or two) I have for the authors is: How did you figure out who writes what in your group? Or did you just work on it together?<br />Kelly Slimmon<br />Doyle<br />Period 1/2 <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36269954.post-34173116402698856222012-11-28T18:40:01.272-06:002012-11-28T18:40:01.272-06:00Giulia
Humanities 1-2
11/27/12
1 learned that i...Giulia <br />Humanities 1-2<br />11/27/12<br /><br />1 learned that in Europe between the years 1550 and 1650 about 60,000 so called witches were tried and executed. <br />There were men who were accused of being wizards, even though women were seen as weak and more likely to be taken over by the Devil.<br />The most probable cause of the hysteria was a poison called ergot.<br />2)<br /> My connection is between the Salem witch trials and the mural project. It is that in both the colonists were living in fear and distrust, which was increased by what they believed about god, which was that only a select group (the elect) were chosen by god to go to heaven. In Plymouth the colonists were afraid of god and also afraid of the natives, who were at the time burning and destroying villages and killing many men, women and children. In Salem colonists were afraid of the imaginary witches in their community. They were also afraid of being accused of being a witch and then being executed.<br /><br />3)<br /> My Question is, did the witch hunts, trials, and executions in Europe affect what happened in Salem?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36269954.post-57111150450317925122012-11-28T18:34:40.516-06:002012-11-28T18:34:40.516-06:00While reading the newspapers I learned about Titub...While reading the newspapers I learned about Tituba, how she was a slave in the west Indies, and taken by Reverend Samuel Parris, and how she was thought to teach girls housework but was really teaching them "witchcraft". I also learned about how the vast majority of accused withces were woman, and about how when Salem got its first church in 1671, not going was considered a sin and made illigal.<br />The Salem Whitch Trials were connected to the early Pilgrim encounters because, since the ideas of whitchcraft started in English churches, the Pilgrims brought over the ideas when they settled in Plymouth.<br />A question I have for the writers is, what would happen if someone were accused of being a whitch, but found innocent? Would they just be set free?<br />David P.<br />Doyle 5-6<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36269954.post-51251616338454806912012-11-28T18:30:06.208-06:002012-11-28T18:30:06.208-06:00I learned that the Salem Witch Trials started with...I learned that the Salem Witch Trials started with Elizabeth Parris, Abigail Williams, and a Native American slave named Tituba. I learned that Tituba was telling stories of black magic to the two girls and that she tell fortunes. Other girls heard about the stories and acted as they were bewitched. I learned that Tituba denied being a witch, but after she was beaten by the Reverend beat her until she confessed. She then told a story about how four women came to her the night before and asked her to hurt the children she was doing witchcraft. I learned that Elizabeth Parris and Abigail Williams were also the Reverend's daughter and niece. I learned that during the time, if a person was stabbed and bled, then they were a normal person, but if they didn't bleed, they were a witch. I learned that if you were a accused of doing witchcraft, you would be sent to the court. I also learned that King William's war started with tensions between New Englanders and Iroquois Confederacy and New France and Wabanaki Confederacy, who were both the New Englanders allies. I learned that the New Englanders and New France then were at war. In the Anne Hutchinson trial and the Salem Which Trial, both Anne and Tituba both troubled the court. My question for those who researched is how hard was it to find information about you subject?<br />Horace <br /><br />Period5/6Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36269954.post-33847529662057477962012-11-28T18:10:40.180-06:002012-11-28T18:10:40.180-06:00Lily Levitt
11/27
pd.5-6
1] By reading pd. 1-2’s n...Lily Levitt<br />11/27<br />pd.5-6<br />1] By reading pd. 1-2’s newspaper I learned a lot. I learned about Giles Corey and how his death affected The Salem Witch Trials in 1692, and how it affects people today. Giles Corey was pressed to death on the 19 of September 1692. He was killed for refusing to enter the plea for innocent or guilty. He was accused of witchcraft, and past accusations of theft and hurting people didn’t help him to be released of all charges. Corey was also accused of burning down Proctors house. Giles Corey withstood two days of pressing; the last words he uttered were “More weight.” <br /><br />2] I also learned about how The Salem Witch Trials began. It started in the late months of 1691, when Reverend Samuel Parris’s daughter, Elizabeth, started to act strangely. With the help of many doctors, Parris soon decided that Elizabeth was under a witches spell. Soon, many other girls started to act out. Tituba, who was the Parris’s family’s slave/maid, was accused of witchcraft because she had been telling the “afflicted girls” stories of dark magic and voodoo. Tituba was of color, and had a very low status in the Puritan society. The next Sunday after Tituba was accused, the “afflicted” girls accused Sarah Osborne and Sarah Good of witchcraft. The girls accused these two people after acting out at church. It was as if someone had lit a match to The Salem Witch Trials because soon people were accusing random people of witchcraft, even the most beloved people to the community. <br /><br />3] I also learned about a slave named Tituba, who was the first to be accused of witchcraft in Salem in 1692. Tituba was born in an Arawak village in South America in 1674. She was captured and taken to America. From age twelve worked for the Parris family. In 1680 another man named John started working for the Parris family. When the Parris family moved to Salem in 1690, Tituba and John got married. They had one child named Violet. Because Tituba was from Arawak, she continued to live by their customs. But without really knowing, she had somehow contributed to the start of The Salem Witch Trials, by telling stories of voodoo to Samuel Parris’s daughter and a group of her friends. These girls must have been afraid or confused about what the stories meant, because Tituba was accused soon after she had begun telling the stories.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36269954.post-14228860398666143052012-11-28T17:59:33.826-06:002012-11-28T17:59:33.826-06:00Before i read this newspaper i did not think that ... Before i read this newspaper i did not think that the people back then, took the Witch trials so seriously, as they did. Even children would claim one was a witch and people believed them. Sometimes when people were accused of being a witch, they were not even given a fair trial. For example, a slave women named Tituba was accused of being a witch, and since she didn't say anything they didn't give her a fair choice. Her choice was either be hanged, or burned at the stake. All of this craziness started when two girls accused a slave lady of being a witch. The Salem witch trials relate to the first Thanksgiving because, just like the Natives and the Pilgrims, the "witches" and the other citizens didn't trust each other. Additionally, the citizens and the Pilgrims saw the "witches" and the Natives, as monsters. I wanted to know if there was any specific information about what kind of stories Tituba was telling to the children.<br /><br />Paryssa<br />11/28/12<br />Doylepup88888https://www.blogger.com/profile/04333147097944070345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36269954.post-56814977652105313082012-11-28T17:48:31.270-06:002012-11-28T17:48:31.270-06:00From reading the articles on the Salem Witch Trial...From reading the articles on the Salem Witch Trials, I have learned a lot, even after having studied these witch trials. One of the people I learned most about was John Proctor. Before reading the articles in the newspaper, I hadn’t known that Rebecca Nurse was Proctor’s sister-in-law. I hadn’t known that Proctor’s own servant turned against him, and accused him of witchcraft. I also hadn’t known about the letter Proctor wrote to Increase and Cotton Mather. I was also very surprised to learn that only one of the “afflicted girls”—Ann Putnam — apologized for what they did. All of the other girls who took part in accusing changed their names and moved away from Salem. Another interesting piece of information I found was on Giles Cory. I had already known that he was pressed to death under rocks, but I hadn’t known that he had committed murder. This changed my view on Cory and his trials.<br />I found many similarities between the article “Guilty Until Proven Innocent,” and the article I wrote for the newspaper. We both included that some that were accused of witchcraft were put to trial merely because they did not attend church. In both articles, we pointed out that the accusations began with those of lower status in the community, then went on to citizens of high status.<br />My question to the authors of the articles for the Salem Witch Trials Newspaper is; how much research did you collect for each of your articles? What was your experience like writing a group article?<br /><br />Olivia Issa<br />Period 5/6Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36269954.post-86854153578984121232012-11-28T17:29:18.563-06:002012-11-28T17:29:18.563-06:001.Tituba was a slave in Salem, and one of her jobs...1.Tituba was a slave in Salem, and one of her jobs was to watch over the Reverend’s daughter and niece when the Reverend went out at night. Tituba performed black magic and voodoo, two types of “witchcraft”. Tituba often told stories to the girls about witchcraft and magic. After a while, more and more children came to hear Tituba’s stories. The girls started coming to listen to Tituba’s stories every night when the Reverend went out. After a while, when the Reverend would preach in the church, when he spoke of god the girls covered their ears and screamed. The girls all started doing weird things like acting like animals, and pointing at things in thin air claiming there is something there. The Reverend had many doctors come to diagnose Elizabeth and Abigail. After many non-conclusive results, finally a doctor said that the girls were under the hand of the devil and when they had their unusual fits they were trying not to become witches. In one fit, one of the girls mentioned Tituba’s name. They had found their first witch. Tituba denied being a witch, and was beat until she confessed. <br />Salem was founded in 1626 by a man named Roger Conant. Salem was founded only by men, so women were not allowed to participate in town meetings or participate in decision making. Women were thought to be only there to serve men, and are more likely to join the devil. Some believed that since women weren’t allowed to preach in Salem, they would go to the devil so that he could preach for them.<br />The children in Salem were subjected to the same strict rules as the adults. The children weren’t allowed to play games, or have toys. The only holiday the Puritans allowed the children to celebrate are about the harvest and Thanksgiving. Young boys are expected to get a job and are let outside to hunt and fish. But young girls, are made to stay inside and cook stew.<br />2.John Endicott led a group to Salem in 1628 and joined the founder Roger Conant. John Endicott was also one of the judges in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during Anne Hutchinson’s trial in 1637. John Endicott was an important character in both stories. He was a big ruler in both colonies, and a very well respected leader. <br />3.When did the witch trials end? Who helped stop them from happening? <br />Michael Rubin<br />Humanities 5/6Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36269954.post-11344971128842892052012-11-28T17:04:58.121-06:002012-11-28T17:04:58.121-06:00In the article "Guilty until proven innocent&...In the article "Guilty until proven innocent" I learned that most of the woman who were accused of being witches didn't have men to defend them. This made the women easier to accuse. For instance when Sarah Good was accused even her husband accused her for being a witch, as well as Sarah Osborne whose husband had died and had gotten in trouble for living with another man . The second thing I learned in the article was that not only people of a lower class were accused but those of a higher class as well. Martha Corey, a well respected woman who took church seriously was accused for being very opinionated. Throughout the year the girls who had gone around accusing people had called out on people like magistrates, merchants, and the wife of the Governor (Lady Phipps). Near the end of the article I learned that as the girls called out on more and more people especially those of a higher class the trials and accusations went down. This was because after the higher class had been accused spectral evidence or evidence that was used against the accused, was banished. Some of the common things between the Salem witch trials and the trial of Anne Hutchinson are that both the trials were held by men and men only. I would like to ask the author about the differences between the Salem witch trials and the witch trials of the other colonies.<br /><br />Rachel S.<br />Humanities 5-6<br />11/28/12<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com