Encountering Conflict play reading?

[jessdoc]

I'm doing English in year 11 at school at the moment and we are shadowing the year 12 English set up. We're doing encountering conflict at the moment looking at the Crucible. Over the easter break we were asked to read the rest of the Crucible, but in short... it's crap. I have always struggled reading the English texts, not that I'm a bad reader just that I don't like reading books about topics that don't interest me. Every time in previous years we did a play ('Romeo and Juliet' year 9 and 'Macbeth' year 10) we have read them aloud as a class, so I always got to gist of it. I just can't seem to get anything that's going on in the Crucible this year having to read it by myself, has anyone got any tips on how I could maybe pick up a bit more on the play?

 

[drake]

maybe read some guides/explanations on the book after each chapter/scene that you read - you may then be able to understand it better

[MM96]

Try reading it aloud, it increases your chances of better retaining the information.
Also; study guides. They're your new best friend.