Skagway English 9

Today we are going to look over your FINAL study guides, discuss your final and your projects, and read "I Have A Dream".  Tomorrow we will look at "Farewell to Manzanar" 1st Please turn in your study questions  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 injustice; 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 determine author’s purpose and cite evidence from the text and connect NIGHT to another work – either fiction or nonfiction – b...

NIGHT (pages 85-97) CHARACTERS: Detail everything you know about them (physical description, personality, etc.): Rabbi Eliahou: Juliek: SETTING: Detail the time and place the story begins: Where was reached at the end of the chapter? How long did the refugees run? IN-TEXT QUESTIONS: Infer the answer from the text (Minimum 1-2 sentences): How does Rabbi Eliahou and his son create a foreshadow for Elie’s future? LITERARY ELEMENTS: SIMILIES AND METAPHORS: GIVE FOUR EXAMPLES SYMBOLISM: Juliek playing Beethoven before he died: SHORT ANSWER QUESTION Minimum 4-5 Sentences What does Juliek symbolize in the book “Night”? Night (pages 98-115) How does Elie feel after the death of his father? Why do the Germans decide to liquidate Buchenwald and evacuate the prisoners? What stops the final evacuation of the prisons from camp? What is the first act of the prisoners after the Americans begin to arrive? What stares back at Elie at the end of th...

Finish reading the chapter in Night (pages 66-84) and then work on the study questions below.  You can work in groups if needed or desired.  Friday you have a vocabulary quiz. Night (pages 66-84) CHARACTERS: Detail everything you know about them (physical description, personality, etc.): Akiba Drummer: SETTING: Detail the time and place the story begins: What time of year is it? What holidays are the prisoners celebrating? IN-TEXT QUESTIONS: Infer the answer from the text (Minimum 1-2 sentences): What is “selection”? Why does Elie hate the bell? What might the bell be a symbol for? What two things does Elie’s Father give to him before going to the “Decisive Selection”? LITERARY ELEMENTS: ALLUSIONS: Rosh Hashanah (Pg. 66): Sodom (Pg. 68): Yom Kippur (Pg. 69): “I’ve got more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He’s the only one who’s kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.” (Pg. 81): SHORT ANSWE...

Today we are going to do vocabulary, review Night themes and essential questions, finish study questions for chapter 3, and then read chapter 4.