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.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Monday, March 17, 2014
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
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
Monday, March 10, 2014
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.
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.
Friday, March 7, 2014
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)
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
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.
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
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.
Monday, March 3, 2014
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.
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.
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