Witch Hunt

Art and Power

A Never Ending (Hi)story

How can art be used to denounce witch hunts?

Past Representations of Witches

Look at this painting. Does it correspond to your idea of a witch? What is happening? Describe the scene.

Look at this second painting and focus on details:

• What is happening?
• Who do you think these people are?
• Who is accused?
• Who is accusing?
• What are they doing?

The Salem Witch Trials

Get Ready!

Look at this word cloud, listen and write the words you hear.

With the help of the word cloud make suppositions about the video you are about to watch.

Now watch the video and click here to answer the questions from your digital workbook.

Trials on screen

Pick out key elements about this film: names of the main characters, plot, historical context…. Be ready to present it. What kind of witch hunt is depicted in this film?

Historical Question: Do you think the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria was caused by a fear of women?

MacCarthyism

“McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.”

Interpreting the Red Scare through a comics and a video

Watch the video about The Hollywood Ten, read the comics and answer the questions:

• What can you say about the economic situation of the US in the early 1950s and the fears of the population?
• Who was MacCarthy and what did he do?
• What do the letters HUAC stand for? What was its role?

Click here and do exercises 3, 4 and 7 in your digital textbook

Interpreting the Red Scare through a fable "The Peacelike Mongoose"

Click here to answer the questions from your digital workbook

Find the words corresponding to the following definitions: 1. To force to leave a country or place by official decree; exile 2. To find or prove someone guilty of an offense or crime, especially by the verdict of a court 3. To pronounce judgment against 4. A vote with the help of hands 5. To examine by judicial process. To put an accused person on trial

Interpreting the Red Scare through Political Cartoons

Click here to see the cartoon analysis worksheet

Interpreting the Red Scare through Political Cartoons

Click here to answer questions from your digital workbook

MacCarthyism and Trump

Analyze these two political cartoons

Modern Witch Hunts

"The Witches Are Coming"

Read the text and click here to answer the questions from your digital workbook

Youth Climate Activists Witch Hunt

Click here and read the article about Disha Ravi, the Indian climate activist.

Describe and analyze this street mural.

Final Project

Write an interview of political artist Shepard Fairey

Present the artist and how he uses his art top denounce witch hunt. Ask him to explain his political artwork and the message behind it.