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Night Unit

Night Unit. Week 2. 2/10/14 Writing Prompt #14. Your school has some extra money to spend. It could be spent on a computer lab, new sports equipment, a cafeteria, or something of your choice. Write about what you would choose and why. . Night Vocabulary Lesson 1.

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Night Unit

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  1. Night Unit Week 2

  2. 2/10/14 Writing Prompt #14 • Your school has some extra money to spend. It could be spent on a computer lab, new sports equipment, a cafeteria, or something of your choice. Write about what you would choose and why.

  3. Night Vocabulary Lesson 1 • Compatriots (n) - fellow countrymen • Edict (n)- official statement • Expound (v) - to set forth in detail • Firmament (n) - the sky or heavens • Hermetically (adv) – completely sealed; airtight

  4. Night Question Packet • You will answer the questions after each section we read. • The entire packet will be due after the exam.

  5. Chapter 1 and 2

  6. 02/11/14 Writing Prompt #15 • Some young people view celebrities – including professional athletes, actors, and musicians – as role models. Do you think that celebrities are good role models? Explain why or why not.

  7. Night Vocabulary Quiz #1 Use the word compatriots in a sentence. What does the word edict mean? What does the word expound mean? Use the word firmament in a sentence. Use the word hermetically in a sentence.

  8. Night Vocabulary Lesson 1 6. Pestilential (adj) filled with disease; contagious 7. Pillage (v) to rob with open violence 8. Premonition (n) anticipation of an event, usually negative, even without actual warning 9. Truncheon (n) a police officer’s stick

  9. A contradiction exists between what the character thinks and what the reader or audience knows. Dramatic irony is when Elie and his family are on the train to the concentration camps. We know where they are being taken to, (and so does the crazy lady on the train) but everyone else doesn't. Dramatic irony

  10. Words are used to suggest the opposite of what is meant. "Work or crematorium - the choice is yours."They are posed are real options, but in reality, the Jews never really had any power over their fate. Verbal irony

  11. An event occurs which directly contradicts the expectation of the reader or audience. "Three days after the liberation of Buchenwald I became very ill with food poisoning. I was transferred to the hospital and spent two weeks between life and death. -Situational Irony: He wasn't expecting to get sick from eating all of the food he did, he was just hungry. Situational irony

  12. Chapters 1-2 • Finish Reading Questions from packet

  13. 2/12/14 Writing Prompt #16 • Imagine you have a time machine and you are able to transport one person from the past to the present for one day. Who would you choose? Write about why you chose this person and your visit with this person.

  14. Night Vocabulary Quiz #2 Use each of the vocabulary words in a sentence: 6. Pestilential 7. Pillage 8. Premonition 9. Truncheon

  15. Chapters 3, 4, and 5

  16. 2/14/2012 Writing Prompt #17 • Imagine that you are suddenly able to fly whenever you want. Where would you go? What would you do? Write to explain your new talent and how you would use it. • When you are done, you need to turn in your writing prompts #14, #15, #16, and #17.

  17. Chapters 3, 4, and 5

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