4.2 We will learn about art as a form of protest and civil disobedience. We will study a poem and emulate its structure and content by synthesizing our own ideas about social injustices. We will learn about the Holocaust through reading and studying Wiesel’s first hand experience.

Grades and Missing Work Grade Concern e-mails Housekeeping Finals Info. on last day Grades and Missing Work Grade Concern e-mails Graduation Announcements/Humor Me Night | Chapter 1 Free Write and Discussion Protest & Civil Disobedience Literature as a form of protest art “First they came…” 4. Night | Chapters 2 & 3 REMINDERS: Grades will be up to date by the end of the week; review yours for any errors/missing work and come see me. Pursue additional work now posted on the website if you are concerned about your grade. HOMEWORK: Begin thinking of a topic/theme/area of focus for your piece of protest art.

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Free write & Discussion: Chapter 1   The Nazis' program of persecution against the Jewish people in Sighet was carried out in gradual steps (p. 9). First, the German officers moved into private homes. They closed the synagogues. They arrested leaders of the Jewish community, forbade the Jews from owning any valuables under penalty of death, and forced them to wear the Star of David on their clothes. Jews no longer had the right to frequent restaurants, to travel by train, to attend synagogue, or to be on the streets after 6 o'clock in the evening. Then, they were forced to leave their homes and move into designated ghettos. And from the ghettos, the Jews were deported to the concentration camps. How do you think the Jews felt as the persecution escalated? Why do you think they followed the Germans' rules? Should they have stood up? Would you have reacted differently? Early in the book, after Moishe the Beadle escapes his execution, no one, not even Eliezer, believes his tales (p. 7). Even when the Germans arrive in Sighet and move all the Jews into ghettos, the Jewish townspeople seem to ignore or suppress their fears. "Most people thought that we would remain in the ghetto until the end of the war, until the arrival of the Red Army. Afterward everything would be as before" (p. 12). What might be the reasons for the townspeople's widespread denial of the evidence facing them? Choose one of the questions to respond to in your notebook. Support your response with textual evidence and be prepared to share your response in discussion.

Protest & Civil disobedience 1. Create an association web for anything that you think, know, feel or associate with protest or civil disobedience. 2. Turn to a neighbor and discuss the following questions: Is there a place in the world for protest and civil disobedience? Under what circumstances? Why does protest and civil disobedience typically have a negative connotation? If you choose NOT to engage in protest or civil disobedience (e.g. choose NOT to take action) does your non-choice still count as an action with consequences? Which choice do you believe is more ‘dangerous’?

To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all. First they came… Read the poem, “First They Came…” Background on Martin Niemoller & “First They Came…” Is this a piece of literary protest? Share modernized version by Lichfield Next, consider what groups you’ve observed the persecution of and by whom. Create your own modernized version of this poem, mimicking its structure, but changing its content to reflect your own views of social injustices. To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all. -Elie Wiesel

Night | Chapters 2 & 3 Simply follow along as I read chapter 2 aloud to you. Record any questions or thoughts you have regarding the content in your W column of your K-W-L page. For the remainder of class read chapter 3 independently. While you are reading consider the following questions:  What traits help individuals or societies succeed where others fail? To what extent are individuals responsible for their own choices and for the actions of the groups to which they belong?  How does membership in a social structure bring responsibility? Can art and literature be an effective form of protest?

The arc of history bends towards justice The arc of history bends towards justice. Protest art just speeds things along. Protest art afflicts the comfortable and comforts the afflicted.