Day 4

Quick Review 2. List three different types of propaganda. 1. Explain the purpose of propaganda. 2. List three different types of propaganda. 3. What literary device makes propaganda so persuasive?

Elie Wiesel’s Night Chapter 1 Pg. 1-7

TANG T: Night A: Elie Wiesel N: Hungarian/German G: Memoir (true account of a significant experience)

Religious Jewish Terms Hasidic: a member of a church characterized by its emphasis on mysticism, prayer, ritual strictness, religious zeal, and joy.   Cabbala: Jewish Bible Talmud: Jewish traditional ceremonial and civil law. Synagogue: A Jewish house of worship Mysticism: a direct, intimate union of the soul with God through contemplation

Thinking Critically 1. List three character traits to describe Elie Wiesel the boy giving textual evidence as an explanation for each one. 2. Identify and explain the two significant two reasons why Elie Wiesel begins his memoir with Moshe the Beadle.   3. Describe three events that took place which should have warned the Jews that their lives were in danger. 4. Consider the Jew’s opposition to Moshe: Explain two reasons for their disbelief of what he witnessed. 5. Formulate two precautions/plans the Jews could have considered that would have saved their lives. 6. Consider all that has taken place before 1944 to the Jews. A.) Summarize how the Holocaust has already begun. B.)Use this summary to explain the Jew’s ignorance and blindness to what is happening to them.

Night Response Booklet

4. All Reponses must include at least one in-text citation. Rubric Response Booklet Directions 1.Create your booklet. You will need two sheets of construction paper and 9 sheets of notebook paper. 2. Every day, during the last ten minutes of class, you will write a one page response for the question posted. 3. Provide your honest opinion! Be sure to include textual evidence to support those opinions! 4. All Reponses must include at least one in-text citation. Rubric Entries explain why, rather than summarize. Entries focus on scenes read for that day, and use the text as evidence in the explanation given. Entries are at least a page long. Entries are neat, legible, and mechanically correct.

Note to Teacher: Booklets Each time a chapter is completed, provide the response question for students to complete during class or for homework. Response booklets are usually due at the end of a unit unless the teacher will want to set a check point date at which student progress will be monitored. Response questions can also provide great in depth class discussions to help students understand difficult concepts or thoughts they may have at the end of a chapter. Response booklets can be given to both honors classes as well as standard. Length may be shortened for standard classes. The questions can be given after every individual chapter or all together as a handout for students to complete if they choose to read ahead.

Booklet Example

Booklet Example

Objective Vs. Subjective Objective: to state only the facts; unbiased Subjective: to provide an opinion; emotional details; biased

To be completed today… Night Study Guide Questions: Answer 1-10 Create your Night Response Booklet Complete your first entry Response #1: Why was writing from an objective point of view necessary for Wiesel’s completion of his memoir? Why did it take courage for Wiesel to begin with Moshe the Beadle?

Holocaust Background Quiz 1. Explain the purpose and different types of propaganda. 2. Give two different groups of people that Hitler also planned to terminate besides the Jews. 3. Describe the conditions of the concentration camps. 4. Define anti-Semitism. 5. When Hitler rose to power, what did he immediately do to the citizens? 6. What is a ghetto and what is its purpose? 7. Explain the Aryan race. 8. Who are the SS? 9. Did the Jews in Europe realize what was going to happen to them? 10. Explain “Final Solution.”

Homework Finish reading chapter 1. Complete Response Booklet and your response for chapter 1.