PPT-Into That Night: A Visual Presentation of Elie Wiesel’s A

Night Taryn Strawser Genre Studies Dr Elizabeth Brown 15 November 2012 Imagine Being fifteen again Being ripped away from your home and forced into a ghetto Being loaded into a cattle car with almost 100 other people. Born in . Sighet. , Transylvania . Yiddish. Jewish community . Family- grocers . Spoke Romanian, Hungarian, Ukrainian, German, and Hebrew . Interests-. Religious studies. Folk tales. Judaism . BACKGROUND INFO. Elie. Wiesel. Day 1. Background. Born in . Sighet. , 1928. Close-knit Jewish community.. Middle class family, grocers.. Religious study. Germans invaded in 1944.. He was 15.. Elie. Wiesel aged 15 shortly before deportation. Vocabulary. Chapters 1-4. Holocaust Unit. Chapter 1 & 2 Vocabulary – 6 words . penury . n. . extreme poverty. “He was poor and lived in utter penury” (Wiesel 3). . billeted . v. . lodged (soldiers lodging in civilian homes). ________________________________________________________________. The Basics. Always integrate quotations into your text.. NEVER. just . “. drop. ”. a quotation in your writing!. In other words, don. Jamari Robinson. November 13, 2012. College English Honors 2. Lose desire to live. Elie Wiesel lost the dire to live while at the camp. He went through so much during that time that made him feel like dying. He was deprived of his will to live. The things that Elie went through impacted him in a major way. He witnessed deaths, cruelty, injustice, and more terrible things at the concentration camp.. 1. What are the two ways . Elie. criticizes God?. 2. What does he and his father both understand without speaking about it?. 3. What does . Elie. do as an act of rebellion?. 4. Give three ways . Elie. Quote. Tuesday. April . 28. th. , 2009 (4/. 28. /2009). Required. Materials:. Composition Notebook. Pen/Pencil. Time Given:. What We. Will Do:. 3 minutes. 5 minute. 5 minutes. 10 minutes. 10 minutes. Jasmine, Kasie, Gary . Kindness. Quote: “ I felt a cold hand wiping the blood from my forehead. She was smiling her mournful smile as she slipped me a crust of bread …” ( Night 53).. Explanation: The French girl risked her life for him and she is helping him after getting beaten by . Elie. Wiesel writes in the Preface to the New Translation that he does not know the response to Auschwitz, but that “[he does] know that there is ‘response’ in responsibility.” What is your responsibility once you have just witnessed that another genocide is happening in this world? . NIGHT . by: . Elie. Wiesel. Miss . Amorin. Let’s analyze the cover of the novel. About the Author, . Elie. Wiesel. Elie. . Wiesel. . was born in 1928 in . Sighet. , Transylvania, which is now part of Romania.. Do you know this vocabulary?. Empathy. Memoir. Personification. Simile. Metaphor. Aphorism. Apostrophe. Imagery. Hyperbole. Irony. What does the inscription at the entrance to Auschwitz say? What literary device is it an example of?. Our extended text: . Night . by . Elie. Wiesel . Holocaust. : from the Greek word. “. olokauston. ”: a destruction caused by fire or a burned sacrifice. What can literature teach us about humanity and responsibilities to ourselves, our culture, our society, and our world?. We will review Elie Wiesel’s Night . Let’s begin! Hitler & the Holocaust Symbolism & terms Plot 1 Characters Theme 10pt 10pt 10pt 10pt 10pt 20pt 20pt 20pt 20pt 20pt 30pt 30pt 30pt 30pt How to Write a Good Journal Entry…. You are usually given a journal prompt …. turn that prompt into your topic sentence. . For example: . What do you know about the Holocaust?. Most of what I’ve learned about the Holocaust came from our trip to the National Holocaust Museum for our eighth grade field trip..