Salem Witch Trials Guided Reading Scripts

Salem Witch Trials Guided Reading Scripts
5 plays (6 speakers each) and 5 quizzes
Boredom, over-active imaginations and a certain flair for amateur dramatics - all fatally combined to produce one of the cruellest travesties of justice in U.S. history. 19 hangings of complete innocents, labelled as witches ... by children. Who, or what, was to blame? Sift through some very suspect evidence and draw your own conclusions, from this set of guided reading play scripts, covering the course of those infamous events.
Play 1 First Accusations
Play 2 The First Hanging (June 10th)
Play 3 Second and Third Hanging (July 19 and August 19)
Play 4 Fourth Hanging (September 22nd)
Play 5 History's Verdict - Who was to blame?

Sample Text
Betty: That's right, papa! We would never lie to you!
Abigail: We were good girls!
Sarah Good: And I wasn't? Good by name and good by nature, that was me - until you and your friends blackened my reputation.
Rev. Parris: Not so hard, from what I can remember! Begging in the streets!
Betty: And muttering threats whenever she was turned away!
Sarah Good: According to you, a mere child! Whoever heard of taking a 9 year old's word against an adult's?
Sarah Osborne: And a bored 9 year old at that, with nothing better to do than spread trouble.
Tituba: What an imagination! Nearly as vivid as those tales from the Caribbean I told!
Abigail: We certainly were a ‘captive audience'.
Rev. Parris: My poor girls! In the power of those wicked witches! If you could have seen them ..
Sarah Good: Squirming and screaming!
Sarah Osborne: Barking and howling! Oh we saw them all right - along with everyone else in those crowded trial rooms!
Tituba: What a performance! A few centuries on and you'd have got yourselves an Oscar!