Night Chapter One

September 30, 2019

Standards

RL.9-10.2 Determine a theme of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text. 

RL.9-10.5 Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it, and manipulate time create effects such as mystery, tension, or surprise

RL.9-10.6 Analyze a particular perspective or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.

Obj: I can use objective summaries to identify themes and analyze their development.

I can analyze author's choices in text structure to create mystery, tension, or suspense.

I can analyze a cultural experience through literature. 

Starter

read the quote by Elie Wiesel: “[T]he world did know [about the suffering of the Jews during WWII] and remained silent. And that is why I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must—at that moment—become the center of the universe.”  - Elie Wiesel

What does this quote mean?

What does it reveal about the author Elie Wiesel?

Vocabulary: 

Word: Holocaust 

Part of Speech: Noun

Dictionary Definition:destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war.

Your Definition: 

Activity: Have you read books on the Holocaust?  If yes, list which books. 

Activity: 

1. Personal Connections

Our big idea for this unit is conflict.

Consider how conflict can lead to change.

Create a comic that depicts a conflict you have personally experienced.

You may draw it or use storyboardthat.

The comic should be between 3-6 cells long.

2. Understanding Main Ideas 

Read through the How to Find the Main Idea link and take Cornell notes on identifying the main idea.

Your notes should be on slides 1-14. 

3.  Night Chapter One

With a partner, read through chapter one of Night.

As you are reading, identify textual evidence that relates to our big ideas.

Our big ideas are FAMILY, FREEDOM, and CONFLICT.

One Pager Requirements

Summary of Chapter

Topic Word with Explanation

Quote to Support with Explanation

Personal Connection to Chapter 

Create one HOT question.

Two Visuals to Support Ideas 

Neat and Colorful

Closure:

Create a chapter title for the section we read in Night.