Return to the Top"NIGHT"

      by: Elie Wiesel 

~Introduction~
**The novel explores a diary/testimony of a Jewish World War II survivor and his journey through the Concentration Camps. Students will create a journal, project, and presentation. **

English
World War II, and the Holocaust.    
9th Grade
Create a journal, project, and presentation.
(Click on Student Lesson/URL to go to the activities and more links.)

~Standards Addressed ~

Ninth Grade
English: The lesson is based on the novel "Night".
The novel explores a diary/testimony of a Jewish World War II survivor and his journey through the Concentration Camps.

Standard 1.0 Writing

Grades 9/10 Writing Standard 1.0
Writing strategies: students write coherent and focused essays/writings that convey a well-defined perspective and tightly reasoned argument. The writing demonstrates students' awareness of the audience and purpose.  

Organization and Focus
*1.1  Establish a controlling impression or coherent thesis that conveys a clear and distinctive perspective on the subject and maintain a consistent tone and focus throughout the piece of writing.
*1.2  use precise language, action verbs, sensory details, appropriate modifiers, and the active rather than the passive voice.

Research and technology
*1.3  Use clear research questions and suitable research methods (e.g., internet, library, electronic media, personal interview) to elicit and present evidence from primary and secondary sources.
*1.4  Develop the main ideas within the body of the composition through supporting evidence (e.g., scenarios, commonly held beliefs, hypotheses, definitions).
*1.5  Synthesize information from multiple sources and identify complexities and discrepancies in the information and the different perspectives found in each medium (e.g., almanacs, microfiche, news sources, in-depth field studies, speeches, journals, technical documents, and internet sources).

Evaluation and Revision
*1.9  Revise writing to improve the logic and coherence of the organization and controlling perspective, the precision of word choice, and the tone by taking into consideration the audience, purpose, and formality of the context.

  ~Instructional Objectives~

1. After reading the assigned homework from the novel "Night", students will be able to compose an appropriate journal response to convey their personal reactions to the historical context as represented in the novel.  
2. Students will be able to research and create a real life depiction of the concentration camps by using narrative elements with concrete sensory details and language from their journal depicting the novel, real life, emotions, historical aspects (ex: visual details of scenes; descriptions of sounds, smells, specific actions, movements, and gestures; feelings of characters).
3. Students will be able to deliver an authentic power point or oral presentation that combines narration, exposition, persuasion, and description from their journal and concentration camp project.

  ~Student Activities~
**After reading the assigned homework from the novel "Night", students will be able to compose an appropriate journal response to convey their personal reactions to the historical context as represented in the novel.** 

Introductory Activity

1)  Pre-activity
2)  Pre-test/discussion (Click on pre-test to take the test, copy it to 
Microsoft Word and answer the questions and email it to me or print
it out and hand it in during class.)
3)  Assigned readings
4)  Assigned homework
5)  Research

 

Enabling Activity (ies)

1)  Assigned readings
2)  Assigned homework
3)  Journal assignment
4)  Project assignment
5)  Research

Culminating Activity

1)  Journal readings
2)  Project check-ins
3)  Project presentations
 

Assessment
**Journals will be turned in, class projects will be presented in front of the entire class, an essay writing assignment, and there will be a test on the material covered.

  Results

Final Presentation

Introductory Activity
Research
Pre-Test, Discovery School, Dogpile, Google, Yahoo, and Alta Vista.

Enabling Activity

Culminating Activity

Julian High School
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Jennifer McAlpin
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Last Revised: 03/30/2001