Night Test Format and RP Guide

Test Format - 75 Great Writer’s Habits (20 pts) 4 passages from Night ID the habit. Define. Explain. Formation of an ISM (10 pts) Define the formation. (Who are the two key parties? Relationship?) Short Answer question related to Night and the Ism Short Answer (20 pts) 2 Questions. 3-4 sentence responses using specific details from text to defend Quote ID (15 pts) 5 quotes. Choose 3. Identify the context (2 sentences) and significance (3-4 sentences). Multiple Choice or True/False (10 pts) 10 total. Plot related or historically significant questions.

Response Paragraph Guide What is a response paragraph? A complete paragraph that shows you are thinking along with the reading, presents an argument logically, cites passages from the reading that prove the point you’re making, and is properly punctuated and well written. What is a thesis? A well-defined statement of opinion that is supported by specific evidence from the text. What must a thesis include? Author. Text. Claim.

Response Paragraph Guide Sample Thesis: In Night, Elie Wiesel incorporates fine distinctions when describing himself and Moishe the Beadle to emphasize the differences between their crises of faith. Where is the text? Author? Claim?

Response Paragraph Guide Thesis: In Night, Elie Wiesel incorporates fine distinctions when describing himself and Moishe the Beadle to emphasize the differences between their crises of faith. Citations: “We spoke that way almost every evening, remaining in the synagogue long after all the faithful had gone, sitting in the semi- darkness where only a few half-burnt candles provided a flickering light.” (Wiesel 5) “Moishe was not the same. The joy in his eyes was gone. He no longer sang. He no longer mentioned either God or Kabbalah.” (Wiesel 7) “Why, but why would I bless Him? Every fiber in me rebelled… How could I say to Him: Blessed be Thou, Almighty, Master of the Universe, who chose us among all nations to be tortured day and night, to watch as our fathers, our mothers, our brothers end up in the furnaces?” (Wiesel 67)

Response Paragraph Guide What are the Three Cs? Context. Claim. Citation Chosen citation: “We spoke that way almost every evening, remaining in the synagogue long after all the faithful had gone, sitting in the semi-darkness where only a few half-burnt candles provided a flickering light.” (Wiesel 5) Example Sentences: Elie tells the reader that he and Moishe would “[speak about God and pray] almost every evening, remaining in the synagogue long after the faithful had gone” (Wiesel 5). Before the Nazis invaded Sighet, Elie recalls how he and Moishe would “[remain] in the synagogue long after the faithful had gone,” to discuss God and prayer “almost every evening.” (Wiesel 5) Moishe and Elie held similar religious convictions because “almost every evening” they would pray and talk in the “synagogue long after the faithful had gone, sitting in the semi-darkness where only a few half-burnt candles provided a flickering light” (Wiesel 5).