2-5-16

It's Friday!

February 5, 2016

Similarities

• Yesterday's exit tickets
• What are 5 similarities between the Salem witch hunt and the Red Scare?
• What was the cause/reason for the huge levels of hysteria in both events?
• Why were people hysterical?

Hello. Welcome.

Please take out your journal (or a piece of paper if you don't have a journal)

• What would you do if you were accused (either of being a witch or a Communist)? Would you confess? Would you refuse to confess? Accuse others? Explain!

Write for 5 minutes

Let's put on our "mass hysteria filter"

• Think Instagram
• Listen to the songs with a lens/filter of mass hysteria.

• What words, phrases, imagery stands out to you?
• How does this relate to mass hysteria?

What is mass hysteria?

Straight up out of Dictionary.com:

"Mass hysteria is a condition affecting a group of persons, characterized by excitement or anxiety, or irrational behavior or beliefs"

As a group, rewrite this definition in your own words