Journal Entry Chapter 5 Relationships:  Who are some of the most important people in your life? Why?  Who do you feel has mostly impacted who you are today? How? What attributes do they possess that you value? Describe this person and a fond moment you have of them.  What do your family members expect of you? What and whom do they want you to become? Do you agree with what they want for you? Why or why not?

Journal Entry Chapter 6 & 7 Freedom:  Address the following in a journal entry about freedom: How do you define freedom? What freedoms are important to you? How much freedom should people have? How is your freedom limited?  If you were forced to give up your home, possessions, family, and freedoms, what affect would this have on you?  Describe a time when your freedom was taken away from you. Have you ever been grounded, told you could not do something that you wanted to do? What was your response?  Do you have more freedom or less freedom than your parents had at your age? In what ways might your freedoms be different from theirs? In what ways might your freedoms be similar to theirs? Why?  How much freedom should people have? When is it okay to limit freedom? When is it not? Provide examples from texts, movies, speeches, historical events to support.

Journal Entry Chapter 8 Choose one of the following to complete AFTER we finish Night.  Apply Emily Dickinson's poem "Crumbling is not an Instant's Act" to the process Elie Wiesel goes through. How does his faith in God "crumble?" His faith in humanity? His faith in himself and his ability to withstand the dehumanization?  Identify two moments in Night that were pivotal in Elie's progression from the boy he was at the beginning to the "corpse" he sees staring back from the mirror at the end. Why did you choose these?  What scene sticks with you the most from the book? Why? What effect has it had on you? What affect has it had on your coming to understand Elie, other prisoners, the Holocaust in a new way? What message do you feel this scene might convey about life and human nature? Explain.  Are you satisfied with the ending of the book? Why or why not? In what ways has the reading experience challenged, shifted, or affirmed your understanding and beliefs about the Holocaust? How about humanity? What questions or thoughts are you left with? How has the reading of this book possibly been different from other Holocaust literature you’ve studied? How do you feel about the text now that we are finished?