Podcast update

Hello. By Wednesday, please have your podcasts recorded (if you have a digital recording app) and be sure to send it to yourself.

1. Record podcast
2. Email it to yourself (by Wednesday)

For those of you that do not have apps, it's ok! You can record a quick snippet of audio to play around with during class on Wednesday.

Scripting Workshop

Today is going to be a thinking/doing day. Our goal should be to get a clear sense of where you're going with your podcast.

I also want you to take some time to read, even skim, through the literature on podcasting.
Please don't take any of that with you : )

Your goal while reading is to take away a key idea or two about optimal podcast scripting---what are some major do's, what are some don't's--write them in your journal so you don't forget!

HW: first draft of script is due on Thursday. Nothing is set in stone with this. 

Some helpful hints:
- Keep in mind your audience: relate to you and your peers' way of thinking/relating to the world
-Don't go for the "greatest hits" here by trying to do too much. Keep your message clear and simple.
- This is not a literary analysis essay. Keep your language expressive
-You should have a claim--something that you believe to be true about the Holocaust.

This American Life Podcast

Here's the podcast we started listening to in class in case you wanted to keep listening: Click here.

The podcast: getting some logistics

On a half sheet of paper, please indicate the following information:



1. Do you have a personal email account? If yes, please indicate the service (google, aol, yahoo, etc.)

2. Do you own an iPhone or a smart phone (that has a digital recording app)

3. On a scale of 1-5, how technologically savvy would you deem yourself? ("1" being this and this and "5" being something in the ballpark of this)

HW for Monday

HW: Type your questions: label the sections and the types of questions

Freewrite: Most impactful or poignant (deeply affecting) moment from the last few sections


Exit Ticket: What big idea are you going to focus on for your podcast. Remember, this should be something that the novel Night helped reveal to you about the holocaust and its effects on humanity.

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs (Night section 6/7)

Warm-up

FREEWRITE: What is the most impactful, profound, take-away message from section 5? Elaborate on your reaction and why you feel it is important to draw attention to.

Create a list: What is lost at the concentration camp? (focus on physical, mental, emotional aspects)
8-3 wordle

8-1 wordle



Task: Using the handout on Maslow's hierarchy of needs, write a CLAIM about how a character's motivations (how they act) relate to one of Maslow's levels of needs (acting in a way to fulfill need, or acting in such a way because there's a lack of a particular need)
 -Support with textual EVIDENCE
 -EXPLAIN how your evidence supports your claim (elaborate on story details and how it relates to the description of the level you are focusing on)

Sample: In Night, Juliek, the Polish inmate, becomes fixated on his violin, even on the brink of death, because he is trying to achieve a sense of security and safety. Juliek, piled into the barracks with other virtually lifeless inmates, attempts to play one last song on his violin, what Elie describes as a "concert given before an audience of the dead and dying" (95). In this moment, Juliek is emaciated like the other Jews, yet has perhaps given up on food, shelter, water, and even air. Because he no longer recognizes those physiological needs, his motivation changes to focus on comfort and security: his violin playing. Therefore, Juliek playing a concerto in front of an audience hearkens back to a safer, more comforting time, allowing him to fulfill his needs.






HW: complete the book (section 8 and 9) by Friday. Have 2 clarification, 2 interpretation, 2 open-ended questions.

Night Section 5

Big Ideas:

1. Moishe: "I pray that God will give me the strength to ask the right questions."

 Elie questions God throughout the first part of this section. Is questioning one's faith fundamental (essential) to a strong faith?

2. Symbolism of night

3. Hospitals and infirmaries--for compassion/altruism or order/attention to plan and strategy?


Freewrite: What was the most impactful moment or the take away message for you in Section 5. Elaborate on your reactions and why you feel that way.

HW: Section 6 and 7. 2 clarification, 2 interpretation, and 2 open-ended. Please label your questions if you have not been doing so.

Night---Section 4

Themes/Big Ideas:

1. More struggle with faith (Sad angel)
2. Inmates abusing other inmates--Is this the nature of power? fear?
3. More internal conflict as Elie does nothing while his father gets beaten
4. Indifference to death

Important quotes/moments:
"Where He is? This is where--hanging here from this gallows. . ." (65).


"That night, the soup tasted of corpses" (65). (interpretative value!)



"This ceremony, will it be over soon? I'm hungry. . . "(62).


The man who "kills himself" for soup during the air raid (59-60)

"Why couldn't he have avoided Idek's wrath? That was what life in a concentration camp had made of me.

literary term: 

motif: a recurring image, symbol, action,object, phrase or idea in a work of literature.


FREEWRITE: Freewrite: What was the take-away message or most impactful moment for you while reading section 4. Elaborate on why?


HW: Please read section 5. Please compose 2 clarification, 2 interpretation, 2 open-ended questions

Night, Section 2 and 3

Agenda

1. Small group discussions (10 minutes): First discuss the main idea/ your reactions to the chapter, then move on to your questions.

2. Large group (15)

THEMES:

1. Clinging to illusion
2. Dehumanization of the captive (internal conflicts)
3. Struggle with faith in the midst of horror
4. Night as a symbol (page 34)




3. Freewrite: What was the take-away message or most impactful moment for you while reading these two sections. Elaborate on why?

       SAMPLE:  

          For me, this section really drives home the idea that Jews were not really considered humans by their perpetrators. You get a truly strong sense of the dehumanization that took place, not just physically, but also mentally and emotionally. While reading, I am disgusted, but also afraid of what I'm going to discover next. Yet, Elie write, "We were incapable of thinking. Our senses were numbed, everything was fading into a fog. We no longer clung to anything" (36). It just shows the extent to which the dehumanization process was working for the Nazis--that at a certain point, they may have stopped their pulses and burned their bodies, but death of the human had taken place long before that.




HW: Read section 4 (47-65). Complete 2 clarification, 2 questions of interpretation, 2 open-ended questions.

HW- Friday

HW: Finishing reading sections 2 & 3. For each section write: 1 summary question, 2 clarification questions, 2 questions of interpretation, and 2 open-ended questions. (1, 2, 2, 2)

Night, Section 1

HW: Read section 1 on Night (pages 3-23). Write one of each: summary question, clarification questions, question of interpretation, open-ended question. Refer to the past blog posts and/or your QAR worksheets (from the beginning of the year) if you are unsure about the types of questions.

NARRATIVE POEMS DUE TOMORROW!

HW: Please complete your narrative poems for tomorrow. Typed. Be sure to TITLE your poem. I suppose it slipped my mind to remind you that it needed a title. On the other hand, this is a fairly obvious requirement of all literature.

Narrative Poem Workshop/ Preface of Night

Today, I will share with you some more examples of narrative poetry...through song!



The difference between a Foreword and Preface



Tone is the author's attitude toward his subject matter. While reading the preface of Night, identify his tone. Why does he have this tone---what's his purpose for writing Night?



Reciprocal teaching questions (modeling):

1. What is the main idea of this preface? (summary question)- this makes sure everyone is one the same page with the biggest idea/concept/theme of each section.

2. On page 9 (ix), what does Ellie when he says "It" was something elusive, darkly shrouded for fear of being usurped, profaned." (clarification question)-- this is a passage that I'm unsure of and want to bring to the rest of the group.

3. Why does Ellie refer to himself as merely a "witness" throughout the preface? (question of interpretation) These questions are author and me questions. Only ask these questions when you've given thought to how you would respond yourself.

4. What does Elie mean when he says he "trusted the silence that envelopes and transcends words," in reference to struggling with finding language to express his story? (question of interpretation)


5. Do books have the power to change the world? (open ended question) These questions are "on my own." The idea of the question is drawn from the text, but the answers don't have to rely on the text. They mostly rely on personal opinion.