Skagway English 9

You should 1 st ) Look for poems to perform for Poetry Out Loud: https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poems-and-performance/find-poems The online anthology can be found at the URL above.   A link is posted on the blog. Once you have your poem please write it on the whiteboard.   2 nd ) Finish reading chapter 3 of Night and work on study questions found below.. Night Study Questions (pages 29-47) CHARACTERS: Detail everything you know about them (physical description, personality, etc.): Dr. Josef Mengele: Elie: Stein of Antwerp: Akiba Drummer: SETTING: Detail the time and place the story is presently at: Detail the routine the prisoners were forced to endure after they first entered Auschwitz. How long did the deportees stay at Auschwitz? What’s the name of the second camp they attended? IN-TEXT QUESTIONS: Infer the answer from the text (Minimum 1-2 sentences): Why did Elie lie to Stein about his knowledge of the man’s family...

Today we are going to look up new vocabulary (for NIGHT), and then look at Ellie Wiesel's Nobel Prize Acceptance speech and the first chapter of Night.  If you've finished the first chapter of the book meant sure you do the study questions listed under it. First, turn in your Fahrenheit 451 essays! Apathy Appease Ensued Imperceptible Peremptory Undulation Imperative Reiterate Conjectural Poignant Beadle Synagogue Hasidic Penury  Surreptitiously Conflagration Hermetically Crematoria Harangued Compulsory  

CONTENT/UNIT:     NIGHT: Memory and Social Justice Anchor Text: Night – Elie Wiesel Additional Texts: “Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech” – Elie Wiesel “Montgomery Boycott” – Coretta Scott King “I Have A Dream” – Martin Luther King From Farewell to Manzanar – Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston Unit Learning goal: Students will determine the author’s purpose by citing specific evidence from the text and creating a project (video, PowerPoint, spoken word presentation with visual aids) that connects Night to other works that contain ideas of 1) social justice; 2) the use of memory as a force of change; 3) the Holocaust. Scale/Rubric relating to learning goal: 4 – The student can determine the author’s purpose by citing specific evidence from the text and connect NIGHT to many works, fiction and nonfiction, that contain ideas of social justice, memory as a force of change, and the Holocaust. 3 – The student can de...