AP Language students spent the days before break turning the pages of the popular and drawing strong connections between the play’s themes and modern-day current events.

As AP language students start work on a new semester, they do so having spent the end of the first semester analyzing Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and making connections between the play’s themes and what is happening in the world today.

“So this quarter our AP language students are using current events and they are connecting them with themes in the crucible,” AP Language teacher Kathrine Allen said. “The end goal is for them to create a podcast with one to three people and they are showing or articulating how thematic concepts are being used in society today.”

Students applied these ideas by looking at current events and comparing them to the fear and panic shown during the Salem witch trials.

“Reading the crucible has helped me a lot with understanding a lot of themes that are happening in real life as well as with the current events that are going on,” junior Kyron France said. “Specifically the hysteria and misinformation that was being thrown around during the crucible I believe that still happens in today’s day and age with social media.”