NIGHT HAS FALLEN....

Dear Students,

Please answer the following question in complete sentences:

Level 1: Please write 3 sentences to complete the assignment

Level 2: Please write 5 sentences to complete the assignment

Level 3: Please write 7 sentences to complete the assignment

Why do you think the memoir is called Night? Why does he keep saying:

“Night was falling?”

“Night fell?”

“Night had fallen.”    Etc.

SUMMER YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM (SYEP) 2015

IF YOUR CHILD WOULD LIKE TO BE IN THE SUMMER YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM (SYEP), PLEASE PROVIDE THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENTS:

SYED Application will come later.

In order to apply for Summer Youth Program, you must have:

1.     Proof of Identify

2.     Proof of Employment Authorization

3.     Proof of Age

4.     Proof of Social Security Number

5.     Working Papers [+Medical]

6.     Proof of Citizenship/Alien Status

7.     Proof of Address

8.     Proof of Family Income [SSI award letter or 2 consecutive pay stubs].  

9.     SYEP Application

10.  Proof of Selective Service if you are MALE and 18 YEARS or older http://www.sss.gov/default.htm

PARENT WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

LOSS OF HOPE...WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

Dear Students,

Please answer the following question in complete sentences:

Level 1: Please write 3 sentences to complete the assignment

Level 2: Please write 5 sentences to complete the assignment

Level 3: Please write 7 sentences to complete the assignment

How would you feel if your parent or family member lost all hope?

What would you do? Write in words or pictures?

How would you try to restore his/her hope?

Do you think your efforts would be successful? Why or why not?

TASTING JEWISH FOOD

Dear Students,

Please answer the following question in complete sentences:

Level 1: Please write 3 sentences to complete the assignment

Level 2: Please write 5 sentences to complete the assignment

Level 3: Please write 7 sentences to complete the assignment

Today you tasted some of the different types of food Jewish people eat around the world. Write about the food you enjoyed the most. Do you think any of the food that you tried today would sell well at the NYU dining hall? Why or why not?

IMAGINE YOURSELF IN AN UNREAL SITUATION

Dear Students,

Please answer the following question in complete sentences:

Level 1: Please write 3 sentences to complete the assignment

Level 2: Please write 5 sentences to complete the assignment

Level 3: Please write 7 sentences to complete the assignment

Describe what you imagine it would have felt like to be piled under all of the dying bodies and to hear the pure sound of the violin playing Beethoven.

CSPOA--CHILDREN'S SINGLE POINT OF ACCESS

SELECTION AND YOUR WORTH

Dear Students,

Please answer the following question in complete sentences:

Level 1: Please write 3 sentences to complete the assignment

Level 2: Please write 5 sentences to complete the assignment

Level 3: Please write 7 sentences to complete the assignment

The Nazis keep coming into camp for The Selection. How do you think the Jews feel having to prove over and over that they can produce something in order to be worth anything?

Is that what makes humans worth something…their ability to produce something?

How would you feel if your worth as a person was only determined by your ability to produce something someone else wanted?

WINTER BREAK FROM 2/16/15 TO 2/20/15

SEE YOU ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23RD!

SOPHIE'S CHOICE

WE SAW THE FILM CLIP OF MERYL STREEP IN "SOPHIE'S CHOICE."  EVERYONE WAS SHOCKED  BY THE BRUTALITY OF THE NAZI OFFICER MAKING HER CHOOSE WHICH CHILD WOULD SURVIVE AND WHICH CHILD WOULD DIE.  IT IS ONE EXAMPLE OF THE ATROCITIES COMMITTED BY THE NAZIS.

WHAT WAS A BIG CHOICE YOU HAVE HAD TO MAKE IN YOUR LIFE?

AFTER YOU MADE THE CHOICE, DID IT TURN OUT TO BE THE RIGHT CHOICE?  TALK ABOUT YOUR CHOICE AND WHY IT WAS THE RIGHT OR WRONG CHOICE.

DID SOPHIE MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICE?  DID SHE REALLY HAVE A CHANCE TO MAKE A DIFFICULT CHOICE?


 

HOMEWORK: MATCH THE VOCABULARY WORDS

2/13/15 homework

Dear Students,

Directions: Match the vocabulary words in 1-13 with the correct definition a-m. Write the letter of the correct definition on the line provided.

1._____________imminent       2._____________gentile 3._____________deportation 4._____________quarantine 5._____________appalled 6._____________yield 7._____________accost 8._____________decorum 9._____________gestapo 10.____________pauper 11.____________cauldron 12.____________docile 13.____________atrocity Enjoy your vacation!

a.    To confront and speak first to, often aggressively b.    A round metal pit that is hung or placed over a fire,         used for boiling liquids c.    To cause to feel shock or horror d.    To give up, as in defeat; surrender or submit e.    Properness of behavior, manner, appearance, or the     like f.     German secret police g.    A person who is not Jewish h.    The keeping of a person, animal, or thing away from       other to stop a disease from spreading i.      An exceptionally evil, ruthless, or cruel act j.      About to happen or likely to happen soon k.    To make a person leave a country l.      An extremely poor person m.   Obedient and easy to manage

THE GOLD TOOTH

2/12/15 homework

Dear Students,

Please answer the following question in complete sentences:

Level 1: Please write 3 sentences to complete the assignment

Level 2: Please write 5 sentences to complete the assignment

Level 3: Please write 7 sentences to complete the assignment

Eliezer gets lucky and doesn’t have to have his gold tooth pulled out. Think about the reality that the only thing he owns is a gold tooth. Now think about what you own. When you compare yourself with him, what thoughts and feelings come to mind? How would you feel if all of your things were taken away and you only had a gold tooth left?

THE FIRST NIGHT

2/11/15 homework

Dear Students,

Please answer the following question in complete sentences:

Level 1: Please write 3 sentences to complete the assignment

Level 2: Please write 5 sentences to complete the assignment

Level 3: Please write 7 sentences to complete the assignment

When the cattle car arrives at Birkenau, Eliezer comments that this will be the last time he sees his family. What if you knew you would never see your family again? How would you feel? What would you say to them?

PARENT WORKSHOPS

NIGHT BY ELIE WEISEL, THE BEGINNING

2/9/15 homework

Dear Students,

Please answer the following question in complete sentences:

Level 1: Please write 3 sentences to complete the assignment

Level 2: Please write 5 sentences to complete the assignment

Level 3: Please write 7 sentences to complete the assignment

Eliezer finds Moishe the Beadle to be his older mentor. Have you ever had an older man or woman besides your parents to be a kind of mentor for you? What was it like? If you haven’t had a mentor, what do you think it would be like? Who could it be? How might they help you?

2/10/15 homework

Dear Students,

Please answer the following question in complete sentences:

Level 1: Please write 3 sentences to complete the assignment

Level 2: Please write 5 sentences to complete the assignment

Level 3: Please write 7 sentences to complete the assignment

When the Jews are riding in the cattle car, why do you think Madame Schachter starts screaming about a fire in the window? What is the huge fire that is going to devour them all? How would you feel for her to be screaming these things? What would you think about her?

LIFE OF ELIE WEISEL

2/6/15 homework

REMEMBER, PLEASE LOOK AT JOSH GOTTESMANN'S HOMEWORK BLOG AT 

http://gottesmannm751.blogspot.com/

Dear Students,

Please answer the following questions in complete sentences:

OPTION 1: If you were given the opportunity to interview Elie Wiesel for an article to be published on your school website, what three or four questions would you ask him?

OPTION 2: What is most interesting to you about Elie Weisel...his early life before the concentration camp or his later life after the camp? Tell why.

OPTION 3: Write about or draw a picture of one of the awards Elie Weisel won in his life?

What other writer won an award from the same group?