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Night Unit

Night Unit. Week 1 and 2. 2/3/2014. Night Web Quest. 2/4/14 Writing Prompt #11. It has been said that one of the most important things in life is a good friend. Write about someone you think has been a good friend. . What if….

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Night Unit

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  1. Night Unit Week 1 and 2

  2. 2/3/2014 • Night Web Quest

  3. 2/4/14 Writing Prompt #11 • It has been said that one of the most important things in life is a good friend. Write about someone you think has been a good friend.

  4. What if… • It’s the middle of the night, you are told to grab a backpack and fill it with things you need. You do not know when you are coming back to your house. What would you take?

  5. What if… • You have arrived at a place that is suppose to be safe. Suddenly, you are told that your family must split up. Males go to one line and females go to another line.

  6. I will now make the selection…

  7. Elie Wiesel • Wiesel was freed in April 1945, when he was sixteen years old. • Wiesel settled in the United States in 1956. • Night begins in 1941 in Wiesel’s Eastern European village of Sighet. • Hitler attacked and imprisoned Gypsies, people with handicaps, homosexuals, and those who disagreed with his political views—Communists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Soviet and Slavic prisoners.

  8. Elie Wiesel What was the most shocking thing you learned in your web quest assignment? Documentary The Last Days by Steven Spielberg As you watch the film, answer the questions on the worksheet.

  9. 2/5/14 Writing Prompt # 12 Imagine that you arrive at school one morning and realize that you can hear the thoughts of your classmates and teachers. Write about what happens next.

  10. Finish documentary Turn in questions Concepts to Know Elie Wiesel

  11. Concepts/Terms to know • Cabbala/Kabbalah • Hasidism: • Kaddish: • Maimonides • Passover • Pentecost • Phylacteries • Rabbi • Rosh Hasanah • Synagogue • Talmud • Torah • Yom Kippur • Zionism • Zohar • Adolf Hitler • Anti-Semitism • Aryan • Boche • Concentration Camp • Death Camp • Final Solution • Genocide • Gestapo • Ghetto • Holocaust • Kapo • Pogrom • Red Army • Shutzstaffel (SS) Use the iPads to find definitions

  12. 2/7/14 Writing Prompt #13 • What is your favorite subject in school? Tell about that subject and explain your reasons for choosing it.

  13. Night Vocabulary Chapters 1-2 • Compatriots (n) fellow countrymen • Edict (n) official statement; law • Expound (v) to set forth in detail • Firmament (n) the sky or heavens • Hermetically (adv) completely sealed; airtight • Pestilential (n) filled with disease; contagious

  14. Night Vocabulary Chapters 1-2 7. Phylacteries (n) small boxes containing scripture; worn by some Jewish men for daily prayer 8. Pillage (v) to rob with open violence 9. Premonition (n) anticipation of an event, usually negative, even without actual warning 10. Truncheon (n) a police officer’s stick

  15. Read chapters 1-2

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