No warm-up today. Instead, get out “Perils of Indifference” and “The Rattler.” Let’s finish discussing “The Rattler” warm- up.

 Turn in “The Rattler” after class.  If you still need to turn in “Papa’s Waltz”, do that now.  Bring textbook on Tuesday!  Get out your annotations for “The Perils of Indifference” and I’ll stamp you during this next activity…  Period 5: Turn in your warm-ups at the end of the period.  Martin and Stephanie S.: I need to talk to you after class.

Reading 1.1: Identify and use the literal and figurative meanings of words (and understand word derivations).

 The words that we covered for our warm-up are word choices (diction) that the speaker of The Rattler uses to describe 1) the setting, 2) the snake, and 3) his action towards the snake.  After going over these words, what would we say that the speaker’s tone is in this passage?  Remember, there can be more than one tone.

 Let’s review a sample paragraph that was written for “The Rattler.”  Take note of the organization (the format) and take notes to refresh your mind about how to write a body paragraph.

 Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel, gave the speech, “Perils of Indifference” in the White House in 1999, to President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.

 In the summer of 1944, as a teenager in Hungary, Elie Wiesel, his father, mother and sisters, were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz extermination camp in Poland. Wiesel and his father were selected for slave labor.

 Daily life included starvation (small rations of soup and bread), brutal discipline, and a constant struggle against hopelessness. Once, Elie was whipped 25 times for a minor violation.

 In 1945, Wiesel and his father were removed from Auschwitz and taken to Gleiwitz where his father, mother, and a younger sister eventually died.

 Wiesel was freed by American troops in April After the war, he moved to Paris as a journalist then to New York. Since 1976, he has been a professor of Humanities at Boston University. He has received numerous awards and honors including the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He started the U.S. Holocaust Memorial. Wiesel has written over 40 books including Night, documenting his Holocaust experiences,(1960).

 I will put you into groups of four.  Once in your groups, you will be given a list of diction from “Perils of Indifference”.  Answer questions #1-4 (on the back page of “Perils of Indifference”) for your group’s diction ON THE CHART.  Question #5, answer on the back of the chart.  Due at the end of the period!