NIGHT

NIGHT

1/31/17 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

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Pages 85-115

1. When Elie falls asleep in the shed, why does his father tell him to wake up?

2. When Elie is trapped under the pile of bodies, what does Juliek play?

3. When Elie's father opens his eyes, what does it stop the guards from doing to him?

4. When Elie sees the other father and son fighting, what does the son do that horrifies Elie?

5. How does Elie find out his father has died?

1/30/17 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

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Pages 66-84

1. Why isn't Elie able to pray anymore?

2. When the old men are talking with Elie, how do they say Buna has changed since the beginning of the war?

3. When Dr. Mengele is watching Elie, what is the one thing he doesn't want Mengele to do?

4. When Elie's father thinks he is going to die, what does he try to give Elie?

5. What happens to all the prisoners who are left behind when the camp is evacuated?

1/27/17 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

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Pages 47-65

1. At Buna, what does the German officer want from Elie in order to let him stay with his father?

2. What kind of music are the Jews not allowed to play?

3. On his first visit to the dentist, how does Elie prevent having his gold tooth pulled?

4. What is Elie's father really having difficulty learning to do and getting in trouble for?

5. During the attack siren alert, what are all the Jews staring at?

MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2016

CHARACTERS IN NIGHT

1/26/17 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

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Pages 23-46

1. Who is Mrs. Schachter?

2. On the train, what is Mrs. Schachter screaming about?

3. Why is everyone staring at the chimney?

4. What does the interrogation man tell Elie and his father to lie about?

5. What is A-7713?

1/25/17 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

**All homework must be signed by a parent.** 

Book Review Challenge: The student who can answer the most questions correctly will receive a 5-point increase on their report card grade.  

Pages 1-22

1. Who is Moishe the Beadle?

2. When Moishe sees Elie crying what is Elie doing?

3. How does Moishe escape the train of deportees?

4. Why are the Hungarian police in the ghetto?

5. Why are the Jews locked in the synagogue for 24 hours?

THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 2016

concentration camp life

1/24/17 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

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

“Night was falling?”

“Night fell?”

“Night had fallen.”    Etc.

Write about the difference between day and night, light and darkness, good and evil, spring and winter. 

1/23/17 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

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How would you feel if your father lost all hope? What would you do? How would you try to restore his hope? Do you think your efforts would be successful? Why or why not?

1/20/17 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

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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.

1/19/17 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

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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 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?

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2016

AT THE CONCENTRATION CAMP

1/18/17 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

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

1/17/17 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

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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?

1/13/17 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

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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?

TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2016

RIDING IN THE CATTLE CAR TO THE "LABOR CAMP"

1/12/17 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

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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? How is that a foreshadowing of what was to come?

Why did they gag her to stop the screaming?