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NOVEL Night by Elie Wiesel Unit

Week 1 – August 27-31

Review definition of the Holocaust:

The Holocaust refers to a specific genocidal event in twentieth-century history: the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945. Jews were the primary victims—6 million were murdered; Gypsies, the handicapped, and Poles were also targeted for destruction or decimation for racial, ethnic, or national reasons. Millions more, including homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Soviet prisoners of war, and political dissidents, also suffered grievous oppression and death under Nazi tyranny.

Present a biography of Elie Wiesel and show the video.

Talk about literature circle procedures and form groups.

Topics to be researched before Reading

  1.   Kirstallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)

Questions to consider:

  1. When did Kristallnacht happen and what was Kristallnacht?
  2. What was the supposed spark that initiated this violence?
  3. What was the role of police on this night?
  4. What is a “pogrom?”
  5. After Kristallnacht, what happened to many Jews?
  6. Add any other interesting facts you think would be valuable to your research.
  1.     Concentration Camps-Auschwitz. Birkenau, Buchenwald

Questions to consider:

  1. What are some of the things that happened to the prisoners when they first got to the camps?
  2. What was “Selection?”
  3. Who went to these camps?
  4. What was the difference between death camps and labor camps?
  5. What happened to the personal items people brought with them?
  6. Where was each of three concentration camps?
  7. What reputation did these camps have?
  8. What were a crematorium and a gas chamber?
  9. Add any other interesting facts you think would be valuable to your research.
  1. Nazi Propoganda-How did Hitler gain power and begin Nazi Rule?

Questions to consider:

  1. How and when did Hitler gain power and what was the Third Reich?
  2. Who were the SS?
  3. What was “Nazi Propaganda” and how was it used?
  4. What is Euthanasia?
  5. What is “Anti-Semitism?”
  6. Add any other interesting facts you think would be valuable to your research.

        

  1. Kindertransport-Did anyone try to save the Jews?

Questions to consider:

  1. How did some people try to rescue Jews?
  2. What was the Kindertransport?
  3. What was the “Resistance” movement?
  4. How were some children hidden?
  5. What happened during uprisings in camps?
  6. What happened during uprisings in the ghettos?
  7. Add any other interesting facts you think would be valuable to your research.
  1.     Ghettos

Questions to consider:

  1.   How was a ghetto formed?
  2. What kind of things did they have in a ghetto?
  3. Who was in charge of a ghetto?  How did they run it?
  4. How did the Nazi’s keep the Jews in the Ghetto?
  5.     What happened after Jews left the ghettos?
  6.     Add any other interesting facts you think would be valuable to your research.
  7. The Final Solution

Questions to consider:

  1. What was the “Final Solution?”
  2. Who were implementers of the “Final Solution?”
  3. How was the “Final Solution” supposed to be carried out?
  4. How many Jewish lives were lost as a result of “The Final Solution” and the Holocaust?
  5. Add any other interesting facts you think would be valuable to your research.
  1. Dr. Josef Mengele: Angel of Death

Questions to consider:

  1.   Who was Dr, Mengele?
  2. Where did he work?
  3. What is he famous for?
  4. What type of research was he most interested in?
  5. What happened to Dr. Mengele when World War II ended?
  6. Add any other interesting facts you think would be valuable to your research.
  7.     Genocide

Questions to Consider:

  1.   What is genocide?
  2. What is a crime against humanity?
  3. How does genocide relate to the Holocaust?
  4. How do the Nuremberg trials and laws relate to genocide?
  5. Describe places in the world where genocide has taken place.
  6. Describe places in the world where genocide is still currently happening.
  7. Add any other interesting facts you think would be valuable to your research.

Important Information:

  •   Your Power Point must contain the required information from above as well as pictures and any other media that will help educate the class about your topic.
  •   The final slide of your Power Point must contain the works cited.   See attached handout.
  •   Everyone must present.  There will not be any presenting after school.
  •   Work together and exchange emails.  You may not be able to get everything done during class time.
  •   Presentations begin at end of week.  Each group will get a date assigned.  If you are not prepared, you will get a zero.  Don’t plan on being “absent” the day your group is supposed to present.

Week 2  September 3-7

Section 1 and 2

First discussion of literature circle.

Vocabulary

Comprehension questions

Classroom Academies

Quiz

 

Week  3 September 10-14

Section 4 and 5

Second discussion of literature circles.

Vocabulary

Comprehension questions

Classroom Academies

Quiz

 

Week 4: September 17-21

Section 5 and 6

Third discussion of literature circles.

Vocabulary

Comprehension questions

Classroom Academies

Assessment

 

Week 7 and 8: September 24-October 5

Pacing could push this week into 1 as well as availability of Chromebooks.

Plan and create the visual presentation for the class.

Schindlers List /The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas

Questions to go with the movie.