Cover of _Night_ by Elie Wiesel.
Courtesy of: http://andersonlibrary.wordpress.com/2009/01/
Tues -
1. Reviewed "Master Race" reading - shared and discussed answers to study guide questions in small groups.
2. Completed our background lecture on WWI and WWII.
3. Worked on Vocabulary Day One
PM only - notes on Hitler Youth and HJ -
PM only: took quiz
3. Went to go get books.
Homework:
Vocab Day One (do this _before_ you read)
Read Ch. 1 & 2.
Write 5 entries total for the Tracking Chart. (not 5 per section; 5 total. Be _sure_ to include page numbers; this WILL help you on your essay.)
Thurs -
AM - background on history. Lecture on ghettos, transportation and arrival
PM - Discussed the book. Work on study Guide for Ch 1 - 2 in groups and as a whole class (completed #1 - 6)
Homework:
1. Vocab Day Two (do this before you read)
2. Read Ch. 3 and 4.
3. Note how you're taking care of your mental/emotional well-being at the bottom of your Tracking Chart. (talking to someone, going for a walk, reading another book - light material: Babysitter's Club? Hardy Boy's - something easy and fun.)
4. Tracking Chart - 5 more entries.
IF YOU WERE ABSENT:
Be sure to get the notes from a classmate when you return. PM only - be sure to come in to make up the quiz.
DOCUMENTS:
Night Vocabulary
Day One
New words:
waif (p.3) conflagration (p.21) farce (p.21) pious (p.24) (p.25) abyss
The Ghetto
At first, the whole thing seemed like a tremendous farce. How could anyone believe that the expectations to live so unsanitary, cramped, and with so little food could be real? But then, as conditions worsened and even the heaviest and most robust of us became weak, ill and waif-like, it seemed true that a conflagration of suffering was beginning to consume our lives. Even the most pious believers – the ones who studied and prayed so dutifully for so long – began to doubt whether help would find us in time. We tried not to imagine it, but sometimes it seemed as though our prayers were falling into a great, empty abyss.
Sample Sentences: Write the correct word in their correct form (change the endings as necessary) in the space provided in each sentence.
1. The __________________ reached out her hand and we could not help but give her food.
2. Its malevolent flames licking the sky, the ____________________ destroyed half the city overnight.
3. Coming up and over the wreck, the Jacque Cousteau (the infamous underwater explorer) gasped as his feeble light disappeared down into the seemingly never-ending ___________.
4. “Say you’re sorry like you really mean it,” Claire demanded. “Otherwise this whole apology is just one big ____________________ and I don’t think it’s funny one bit!”
5. __________________, Bob had driven himself to the temple every single week for the past 50 years.
Definitions: Match the new words with their dictionary meanings.
6. waif ________
a. a ridiculous or empty show or mockery *the enforcement of this law became a farce*
7. conflagration ________
b. an immeasurably deep gulf or great space
8. farce ________
c. a stray person or animal ; especially : a homeless child
9. pious ________
d. fire ; especially : a large disastrous fire
10. abyss________
e. showing loyal reverence for a person or thing : dutiful
Definitions courtesy of: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary
VOCABULARY DAYS 1 & 2
Night Vocabulary
Day Two
New words:
invectives (p.30) sages (p.31) lucidity (p.36) harangue (p.38) veritable (p.38)
Arrival
If the sages had predicted this, they had kept it to themselves. Could you blame them? The camps were a veritable hell on earth. In moments of lucidity, I could clearly see them for what they really were – simple monuments to fear and hatred. But, most of the time the pure horror and chaos overwhelmed and exhausted me; I walked around in a glaze-eyed stupor. Some of the men tried to harangue us with speeches about hope whenever we seemed down, but their speeches only seemed to make things worse, somehow. The invectives of the guards seemed more honest. And, in a sick, sad way, I somehow preferred them to the messages to keep going. Maybe it was because I needed something to fight against, rather than a vague, invisible hope to live for.
Sample Sentences: Write the correct word in their correct form (change the endings as necessary) in the space provided in each sentence.
1. More than sticks or stones, the man’s fierce _________________ landed sharply against my already weary emotions; without wanting to, I started to cry.
2. After last practice, our soccer coach ______________________ us about our loss to Albany for more than 30 minutes!
3. Even though during math class my head usually feels like it’s full of cotton-like clouds, today I had a moment of fantastic ___________________ and actually understood the quadratic equation!
4. My little sister is a _________________ little weasel! She’s always finding ways to trick and tease me; and she’s always somehow cleverly slipping of punishments and chores.
5. Advice from a __________________ has more value than gold.
Definitions: Match the new words with their dictionary meanings.
6. invectives ________ a. clearness of thought or style
7. sages ________ b. insulting or abusive language
8. lucidity ________ c. being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary —often used to stress the aptness of
a metaphor *a veritable mountain of references*
9. harangue ________ d. one (as a profound philosopher) distinguished for wisdom
10. veritable (p.38) ________ e. declaim - to recite something as an exercise in elocution (the art of effective public speaking)
Definitions courtesy of: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary
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STUDY GUIDE - CHAPTERS 1 & 2
Global Literature Name___________________
Night by Elie Wiesel
Chapters 1 & 2
1. What are your initial reactions to the book? What did you notice about: your own emotional reaction (how did you feel), your intellectual reaction (what do you want to know more about, etc.), the writing (what words, phrases, descriptions caught your attention)?
2. Why do you think Wiesel starts the book with the story of Moishe the Beadle?
3. What do the following lines tell the reader about the people of Sighet? Why might the people behave in this way? What kind of mood does this create? How?
a. The people were saying, ‘The Red Army is advancing with giant strides…Hitler will not be able to harm us, even if he wants to…” Yes, we even doubted his resolve to exterminate us. Annihilate an entire people? Wipe out a population dispersed throughout so many nations? So many millions of people! By what means? In the middle of the twentieth century (8)
4. Find another passage, similar to the one above, that Wiesel includes to create irony, foreshadowing and a mood of foreboding. Include the page number.
5. Explain the importance of the following passage.
NIGHT. No one was praying for the night to pass quickly. The starts were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. Were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes (21).
6. Compare the passage above to the similar passage from the first translation.
Night No one prayed, so that the night would pass quickly. The starts were only sparks of the fire
which devours us. Should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left in the sky but dead stars, dead eyes (18)
7. Write down one line that you think best describes the experience of the transport (chapter 2). Why did you select this line?
8. Why does Wiesel include the story of Mrs. Schachter? How does it affect the mood, etc.?
9. Write down at least one topic and what the author is trying to say about this topic (the theme) for these two chapters.
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TRACKING CHART
Day One - Pages 1-26
As you read, write down examples of each of these four themes in Night. Be sure to note the page number. You can write quotations or just sumarize what is happening when you encounter these themes.
Themes Examples from Reading Page Number
Faith
Survival
Resistance
Family
Day Two - Pages 27-62
As you read, write down examples of each of these four themes in Night. Be sure to note the page number. You can write quotations or just sumarize what is happening when you encounter these themes.
Themes Examples from Reading Page Number
Faith
Survival
Resistance
Family
Day Three - Pages 63-92
As you read, write down examples of each of these four themes in Night. Be sure to note the page number. You can write quotations or just sumarize what is happening when you encounter these themes.
Themes Examples from Reading Page Number
Faith
Survival
Resistance
Family
Day Four - Pages 93-109
As you read, write down examples of each of these four themes in Night. Be sure to note the page number. You can write quotations or just sumarize what is happening when you encounter these themes.
Themes Examples from Reading Page Number
Faith
Survival
Resistance
Family
