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Night A novel by Elie Wiesel

Night A novel by Elie Wiesel. Indifference to evil is evil. — Elie Wiesel. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEbLJv3uSPY. Night : background. Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night describes a horrible time in the twentieth century, when too many people looked away from a terrible wrong.

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Night A novel by Elie Wiesel

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  1. NightA novel by Elie Wiesel Indifference to evil is evil. —Elie Wiesel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEbLJv3uSPY

  2. Night: background Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night describes a horrible time in the twentieth century, when too many people looked away from a terrible wrong.

  3. Night: background • In 1941, Eliezer was a twelve-year-old boy who lived with his father, mother, and three sisters in a small village near the border of Romania and Hungary.

  4. Night: background • Eliezer was a religious boy who welcomed nightfall as a time for prayer and who thought of becoming a rabbi.

  5. Night: background • But, when Nazi’s took over Wiesel’s Jewish community his family was first sent to live in a ghetto and then taken to Auschwitz, one of the most infamous concentration camps.

  6. Night: background • In Night,Elie Wiesel shares his story of the Holocaust, the name given to the persecution and murder of millions of Jews and others during World War II. • Holocaust comes from a Greek word that means “a burnt offering.”

  7. Night: background • World War II began in 1941 when Germany invaded Poland. • German forces conquered most of Europe in the next two years.

  8. Night: background • Wiesel’s story begins in Romania (now Hungary) in 1941 and ends in 1944. When Germans took over this area, local Jews were persecuted. • They were forced to wear yellow stars and to live in ghettos, and were then sent to concentration camps.

  9. Night: background • Auschwitz, where Wiesel was sent, was the largest concentration camp. • Jews from all over Europe arrived almost daily at Auschwitz.

  10. Night: background • Nazis also targeted other groups: • Romany (Gypsies) • Jehovah’s Witnesses • non-Jewish Polish intellectual and religious leaders • Russians • communists

  11. Night: background • World War II ended in Europe in 1945 with the surrender of German forces to the Allied forces. • More than six million Jews had been killed during the Holocaust

  12. Night: background • Between 1945 and 1946, the Allies tried twenty-two major war criminals for their crimes against humanity. • In later years Israeli agents worked to capture and bring to justice Nazis who had escaped the war trials.

  13. RIGHT PAGE SET UP Essential Question: Student questions Summary: DLIQ • Teacher Notes • ______ • ______ • ______

  14. Essential Question: How does an author utilize diction to generate mood? Summary: DLIQ • Diction: • A writer or speaker’s choice of words • Includes both vocabulary (individual words) and syntax (the order or arrangement of words) • Diction can be formal or informal, literal or figurative, technical or common

  15. LEFT page activity: • While the following words have the same denotation, their connotations differ. Re-organize the words according to the instructions. • Skinny, bony, angular, emaciated, gaunt, malnourished, scrawny, slender, thin, anorexic (positive to negative) • Busy, active, diligent, employed, occupied, persevering, unavailable (positive to negative) • Fear, dread, apprehension, anxiety, panic, terror (positive to negative)

  16. Essential Question: How does an author utilize diction to generate mood? • Mood: • The feeling, or atmosphere, that a writer creates for the reader • The writer’s use of connotation, imagery, and figurative language can all help to develop the mood • Connotation: the emotional response evoked by a word • Imagery: words and phrases that re-create vivid sensory experiences for the reader • Figurative language: language that communicates ideas beyond the literal meanings of the words Summary: DLIQ

  17. LEFT page activity: Write three words that describe how these images make you feel.

  18. Left page activity Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door- Only this, and nothing more." …And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me- filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating, "'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door- Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door;- This it is, and nothing more." -Poe, an excerpt from The Raven

  19. LEFT page activity: • What mood do these stanzas conjure? • Which words help create this mood? Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door- Only this, and nothing more." …And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me- filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating, "'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door- Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door;- This it is, and nothing more." -Poe, The Raven

  20. LEFT page activity: • What mood do these stanzas conjure? • Which words help create this mood? Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door- Only this, and nothing more." …And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me- filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating, "'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door- Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door;- This it is, and nothing more." -Poe, The Raven

  21. Essential Question: How does an author utilize diction to generate mood? Summary: DLIQ • Theme: • The central idea or message in a work of literature • It should not be confused with subject, or what the work is about • A perception about life or human nature shared with the reader

  22. LEFT page activity: • “Terrible Things” by Eve Bunting • “Horton Hears a Who” • Listen carefully to the children’s story • Compose a theme ( a lesson about human nature) the author is trying to convey to you, her audience. • Theme:____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

  23. RIGHT PAGE SET UP Essential Question: Student questions Summary: DLIQ What did we do? What did we learn? What was interesting or surprising? What questions do I still have? • Teacher Notes • ______ • ______ • ______

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