Day 3
Warmup: completed sentence check 2. Also turned in Night chapters 7-8 questions.
Then we finished reading Night, reading both chapter 9 and Wiesel's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. If you weren't here, please finish reading at home.
You have six homework questions on today's reading. Please use full, formal, academic sentences to answer. These are due tomorrow at the start of class.
Chapters 9+ Questions
Homework
Remember: if you are absent, you're expected to finish reading what we read in class on your own. The PDF of the book is linked above so you can still read even if you don't have your book with you.
Warmup: completed sentence check 2. Also turned in Night chapters 7-8 questions.
Then we finished reading Night, reading both chapter 9 and Wiesel's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. If you weren't here, please finish reading at home.
You have six homework questions on today's reading. Please use full, formal, academic sentences to answer. These are due tomorrow at the start of class.
Chapters 9+ Questions
- Why do the Germans want to blow up the camp if all the prisoners aren’t there anymore? Explain.
- What does Elie mean literally and symbolically by saying he saw a corpse looking back at him in the mirror?
- What is Wiesel referencing when he says the “Kingdom of Night” on page 118 or 120? Why is it capitalized like a noun? Explain your thinking.
- In that same paragraph on page 118, Wiesel uses a series of sentence fragments in a row. Why do you think he chooses to use fragmented sentences? Explain.
- On page 118, Wiesel says “…I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.” Obviously those who experienced the Holocaust first hand are not literally accomplices in their own torture, so what does Wiesel mean by this?
- On page 120, Wiesel says that he has faith. “Faith in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and even in His creation.” Toward the end of the book Night, Wiesel has given up on his faith and religion. What do you think happened in between being rescued from the camp and him receiving a Nobel Peace Prize that brought him back to his faith?
Homework
- Finish the questions on Chapters 9+. Due tomorrow at the start of class.
- Start on your semester 1 final essay, including finding some research or evidence that supports the prompt you selected.
Remember: if you are absent, you're expected to finish reading what we read in class on your own. The PDF of the book is linked above so you can still read even if you don't have your book with you.