Monday, April 30, 2012 and Tuesday, May 1, 2012 World Literature Monday, April 30, 2012 and Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Today’s Activities Warm-up Discussion groups on Night The march HOMEWORK: Read chapters 6-7 (pages 81-98) in Night by next class and complete typed journal entry with image/explanation by next class. You need to do one quote, context, connection for chapter 6 and one quote, context, connection for chapter 7. However, you only need one image for this part. Remember: images do not need to be related to your quote. In fact, it may be more powerful if you pick a quote and a different image.

Warm-up What is the most surprising thing so far for you in the book? Why?

Definitions Kapo: “a Nazi concentration camp prisoner who was given privileges in return for supervising prisoner work gangs: often a common criminal and frequently brutal to fellow inmates.” (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/kapo) Dysentery: intestinal infection from bacteria that spreads, causes severe diarrhea (People in the camps died from the resulting dehydration usually.)

Themes of Night Man’s inhumanity to man Prejudice and discrimination (where it can lead if unchecked) Denial Loyalty and father/son bonds Survival and the power of the human will Faith Loss

Small discussion groups On the issue of faith: What do we see begin to happen to Elie’s faith and the faith of other prisoners? How is this seen? What does this tell us about the impact of the camps? (Group 1: 63-66, Group 2: 72-73, Group 3: 76-77) On the issue of father/son bonds: What impact does life in the camps have on the bonds between father and son? (Group 4: pages 65-72, Group 5: 77-78) On the issue of survival: What does this show about survival, what impacts survival, the human capacity to survive? How is this seen? (Group 6: pages 63-66, Group 7: 72-73, 78, 80) On the issue of truth and lies/deception: What point does the novel make about deception? (Group 8: pages 69-70, 77-78, 80)

About the marches “Prisoners on a death march from Dachau move towards the south along the Noerdliche Muenchner street in Gruenwald. German civilians secretly photographed several death marches from the Dachau concentration camp as the prisoners moved slowly through the Bavarian towns of Gruenwald, Wolfratshausen, and Herbertshausen. Few civilians gave aid to the prisoners on the death marches. Germany, April 29, 1945. — KZ Gedenkstaette Dachau. USHMM” http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005162

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