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Night
Elie Wiesel
“The opposite of love is not hate,
it’s indifference…And the opposite
of life is not death, it’s
indifference.”
-Elie Wiesel
Background
Information
Night
Writing Prompt
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Eighth grade marks the end of your life in middle school.
Your entry into high school is a path to adulthood. You
are now experiencing the loss of your childhood and your
innocence, both in the eyes of your parents as well as
society. Some of you have experienced loss through a
death. Others have moved, changed homes, changed
friends, and experienced other major events. Each of
these things brings loss to your life. Loss comes in many
forms and ways; it is a central element to everyone’s life.
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Write your feelings about leaving middle school and
entering high school (new friends, activities, interests,
relationships, surroundings, etc.).
Chapter 1
Pages 3-22
Chapter 1 Vocabulary
1.
Hasidic
8.
Zionism
2.
Synagogue
9.
Facist
3.
Cabbala
10.Billeted
4.
Taimud
11.Ghetto
5.
Gestapo
12.Treatise
6.
Rabbi
13.Anecdotes
7.
Diplomacy
14.Deportation
Chapter 1 Focus Skill
Good readers make connections with what they
are reading and prior knowledge.
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What background knowledge is necessary to fully understand this reading?
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What background knowledge did you use to help you understand this material?
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What does the author assume you already know?
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How does this connect to what you already know?
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How does this connect to what you learned in the last unit?
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When have you heard about this before?
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How can you connect what you already know with what the author is saying?
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How does this connect to your personal experiences?
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What do you need to recall from the past to understand..?
Chapter 1 (Pages 3-22)
• Introduction • Pages
10-11
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20-21
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3-5
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11-12
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21-22
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4-6
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12-14
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7-8
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14-16
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8-9
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16-17
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9-10
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17-20
Chapter 1 Writing Prompts
1.
Describe Moshe the Beadle. Explain his relationship
with the Jews of Sighet, particularly Eliezer.
2.
How does deportation change Moshe? How do others’
feelings towards him change?
3.
Why are the spirits among the Jews of Sighet relatively
high at the beginning of Night?
4.
Describe life in the Sighet ghettos.
5.
Explain the opportunities for escape that the Wiesels
miss before evacuation.
Chapter 2
Pages 23-28
Chapter 2 Vocabulary
1. Hermetically
2. Pious
3. Pestilential
4. Abominable
5. Truncheons
Chapter 2 Focus Skill
Good readers ask good questions about
what they are reading.
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Write as many question as you have as you read this.
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I wonder..?
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What does this make you curious about?
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What new questions does this cause you to consider?
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What questions has the author not addressed?
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If you were to sit down with the author/people in this
article what would you like to ask?
Chapter 2 (23-28)
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23-24
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24-26
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26-28
Chapter 2 Writing Prompts
1.
Describe the ghetto evacuation and journey to
Auschwitz.
2.
Identify the first signs of the ability of humans
to act inhuman under tremendous stress.
3.
Interpret the significance of Madame
Schachter’s insane warnings.
Chapter 3
Pages 29-46
Chapter 3 Vocabulary
1.
Hysterical
9.
Bestial
2.
Incite
10.Lucidity
3.
Notorious
11.Harangued
4.
Monocle
12.Colic
5.
Paternal
13.Reverie
6.
Crematory
14.Base
7.
Lorry
15.Messiah
8.
Humanity
Chapter 3 Focus Skill
Good readers create mental images.
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Describe how the pictures help you understand this reading.
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Find images that might help you understand this reading.
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Draw what you are reading about.
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Create a mind map of the major concepts.
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Create a graphic organizer…
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Create a timeline of events…
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Create a model…
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Use a map and mark the places discussed or sites of the events.
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Use the graphic organizer provided to organize the information in this reading.
Chapter 3 (Pages 29-46)
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29-31
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41
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• Pages 45-46
• Page 46
Chapter 3 Writing Prompts
1.
Describe the first selection.
2.
How do Eliezer and his father survive the first selection?
3.
Explain the purpose of Birkenau.
4.
What ultimately causes the dramatic change in Eliezer’s religious faith at
Birkenau?
5.
Describe Eliezer’s plan if he is selected for death at Birkenau.
6.
Describe the prisoners’ indoctrination into concentration camp life.
7.
How does the drisoners’ indoctrination benefit the Nazis?
8.
For the most part, humanity was lost in the camps. Note acts of kindness
and signs of hope in the midst of the bestiality.
Chapter 4
Pages 47-65
Chapter 4 Vocabulary
1. Hooligan
7. Imperceptibly
2. Bouts
8. Gallows
3. Sanctity
9. Raucous
4. Queue
5. Aryan
6. Refuge
Chapter 4 Focus Skill
Good readers make inferences based on
the information they are reading.
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What does the author believe..?
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What message does the author intend..?
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What does the author mean by..?
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Whose voice/s are not represented…?
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Who benefits for this situation/circumstance?
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Does the author have an opinion? If so, what is it?
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Whose purposes does this version of history serve?
Chapter 4 (Pages 47-65)
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47-48
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54-56
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48-50
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56-57
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50-51
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57-58
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51-52
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58-61
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52-53
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61-63
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53-54
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63-65
Chapter 4 Writing Prompts
1.
What is Buna? What does Eliezer do there?
2.
What does the hanging of the child who looks
like a sad angel symbolize for Eliezer?
3.
Describe the Kapos.
4.
What is ironic about the prisoners’ feelings
about air raids?
5.
Explain the prisoners’ attitudes toward death.
Chapter 5
Pages 66-84
Chapter 5 Vocabulary
1.
Lamentation
2.
Emaciated
3.
Prophecies
4.
Annihilate
Chapter 5 Focus Skill
Good readers are able to determine the importance of
various information within the text they are reading.
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What are the 3 most important details in this article?
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What does the author believe is important?
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What are the key vocabulary terms?
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What are the key themes?
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What are the main points the author is making?
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Why might this matter to you?
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Why is this important to the world?
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Why would someone consider this important enough to write about?
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What will you remember about this?
Chapter 5 (Pages 66-84)
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66-67
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73-76
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67-69
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76-77
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77-80
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69
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69-71
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80-82
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71-72
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82-84
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72-73
Chapter 5 Writing Prompts
1.
Describe Eliezer’s feelings as the prisoners observe the Jewish New
Year.
2.
How do the prisoners in Eliezer’s block survive the New Year’s
selection?
3.
Describe the exchange of possessions between father and son when
it appears that the elder Wiesel has been selected for death.
4.
Why is Eliezer admitted to the camp hospital? What dangers face
him there?
5.
Discuss and evaluate Eliezer’s decision to leave the hospital early.
Chapter 6
Pages 85-97
Chapter 6 Vocabulary
1.
Automatons
2.
Bereaved
3.
Encumbrance
4.
Semblance
5.
Apathy
6.
Appeasing
7.
Spectacle
Chapter 6 Focus Skill
Good readers can synthesize and summarize
the information they are reading.
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What do you think?
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Why is the author telling you this?
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What is the essential message of…?
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What conclusions/judgments do you make based on this reading?
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Whose viewpoints aren’t represented here?
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How does this help you understand the world?
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What other interpretations/conclusions could be justified by the evidence presented here?
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How does the author want me to understand the past?
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How does the author want me to understand this situation?
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How has this changed the way you think about…?
Chapter 6 (Pages 85-97)
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85-86
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86-88
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88-90
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90-91
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92-94
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94-95
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95-97
Chapter 6 Writing Prompts
1.
What keeps Eliezer going during the brutal march?
2.
How does the realization that the Rabbi Eliahou’s son
purposely abandoned the Rabbi affect Eliezer?
3.
How does Eliezer save his father from the selection at
Gleiwitz? Interpret what this reveals about Eliezer’s
continued commitment to his father.
Chapter 7
Pages 98-103
Chapter 7 Vocabulary
1.
Indifference
2.
Grimace
3.
Contagion
Chapter 7 Focus Skill
Good readers are able to monitor their own
understanding of what they are reading.
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Rate your understanding of this reading.
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What more do you need in order to understand the author’s message?
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Rate the author’s ability to help you understand the topics.
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What percent of this made sense to me?
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What skills do I need to help me understand texts such as this?
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What would help me better understand this material?
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What reading skills do I do well?
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What reading skills do I need to work on?
Chapter 7 (Pages 98-103)
• Pages
98-100
• Pages
101-102
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102
• Page
103
Chapter 7 Writing Prompt
1. Describe
the tragic incident between a
father and son on the train. What might
this event reveal about the fragile nature
of humanity?
Chapter 8
Pages 104-112
Chapter 8 Vocabulary
1.
Hillock
2.
Plaintive
3.
Beseeching
4.
Invalids
5.
Spasmodically
Chapter 8 Focus Skill
Good readers can summarize what they read
to show understanding.
• What
major plot events happened?
• What
did the characters do/say?
Chapter 8 (Pages 104-112)
• Pages
105-106
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106-107
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107-109
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109-110
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110-112
Chapter 8 Writing Prompts
1.
Explain why Eliezer’s father is denied medical
care at Buchenwald.
2.
Discuss Eliezer’s feelings of guilt as his father
dies. Do you think his feelings are rational?
Chapter 9
Pages 113-115
Chapter 9 Vocabulary
1.
Idleness
2.
Resistance
Chapter 9 (113-115)
• Pages
113-114
• Pages
114-115
• Page
115
Chapter 9 Writing Prompts
1.
Describe the events that lead up to the
liberation of Buchenwald.
2.
What do the liberated prisoners do first?
3.
Explain the irony of Eliezer’s nearly fatal illness
after liberation.
4.
Discuss Eliezer’s closing image of himself.