ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
1. What can we learn from the past to prevent future atrocities?
2. What expectations do we have of humanity and how do we do our part to uphold those expectations?
3. What is the lasting legacy of the Holocaust and other genocides?
4. What is the role of the individual to prevent future genocides?
What you should be able to do as a result of this unit…
- Identify multiple sources and media that address your research topic
- Determine a central idea of non-fiction texts and analyze how the idea develops over the course of the text
- Develop a thesis with supporting details and analysis
FINAL ASSIGNMENTS
- Research Assignment
Monday 3/18
QW: What do we do when we have no words to express how we feel? Describe a time when you tried to process your own thoughts about an experience and words failed. Why weren’t words enough?
- Write for 4 min
Looking at images and details
Read Elie Wiesel Bio and review vocab
HW: Reading Preface and Forward and sentence or passage from the Preface to write about in your journal
Tuesday 3/19
Pick up with images
Reviewing Wiesel’s bio
Wed 3/20
Image Making for the Preface
HW: Reading to page 22
Thurs 3/21
cont. Image Making and working with language
Fri 3/22
Whole class discussion
- What passages stood out to you?
- What language was powerful?
- Reviewing reading
Journal Entry #1 – Choosing a passage
HW: Reading pages 23-39 and choosing passages for next journal entry to create during Monday’s class.
Mon 3/25
Reviewing weekend reading
- What passages did you choose?
Oprah’s interview with Elie Wisel at Auschwitz (11.43)
- What stands out to you from the interview?
Tues 3/26
Reading 40-page break on p. 56
HW: Journal #3
Wed 3/27
Drop
Thurs 3/28
Black out poetry for journal entry #2 from reading p.40-56
- Choose a page or two pages where you find the language particularly powerful
- Circle words that are powerful
- What relationship do you notice between the words?
- Is there a theme emerging?
- Your task is to create a poem with the words on the page and blacking out those that are not essential.
- Think about how you can use the page to visually represent the idea of the poem
Fri 3/29
Finishing black out poem and reading 56-82 . Choose a passages for your 4th Journal entry.
Mon 4/1
QW: For Elie, his belief in a higher power has changed, been challenged, and at times he says gone completely based on his experiences during the Holocaust. Describe an experience you have had where a belief you held was changed, challenged, or completely removed. How did the belief change? What about the experience caused that change?
4th Journal Entry
HW: Read 86-103 and choose passages for 5th entry
Tues 4/2
Journal entries 4 & 5
Finishing the memoir (104-115) and choosing the passages for entry 6
Wed 4/3
Reflecting on the conclusion of Elie’s experience in Night
Reading his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech
- As Night begins, Eliezer is so moved by faith that he weeps when he prays. He is also searching for a deeper understanding of the mystical teachings of the Kabbalah. How does Eliezer’s relationship with his faith and with God change as the book progresses?
- How does his relationship with his father change from his time in Sighet to their time together at Auschwitz?
- What is the significance of the memoir’s final image of Wiesel’s face reflected in the mirror? Did aspects of him die during his experience? What do you make of his observation that among the men liberated with him, not one sought revenge?
- Elie repeats “Never will I forget…” in the text, what do you think it means to “Never forget”? Is there a responsibility inherent in remembering? Is remembering enough?
- The Holocaust was now over 70 years ago. What connection does it have to our time?
HW: Journal Entry 6
Thurs 4/4
Safe Driving Assembly
Fri 4/5
Group discussions addressing the end of Night
Notebook reflection: What are you taking away from your experience of reading Night? What ideas stick with you? What questions remain for you?
Mon 4/8
Drop
Tues 4/9
Reading Independent Books
HW: Post on Classroom
Wed 4/10
Book Talks
Thurs 4/11
Overview of Research Assignment
What makes a good source?
- Reading for opinion vs. fact based writing
HW: Tracking the news
Fri 4/12
Group discussion on readings from last night
- Common topics?
- Areas of interest?
Watching 1 other news broadcast and reading 1other article. Adding entries onto google doc on classroom
HW: Enjoy the break
Mon 4/22
Back on track with the news
- Anything happen during the break?
Adding 2 news broadcasts and reading 2 other articles. Adding entries onto google doc on classroom
Tues 4/23
Reading Benchmark Practice
News day and start pulling out topics and trends
- Are there topics that you would like to research that aren’t being covered in the news?
- What are the issues facing your community and generation?
Wed 4/24
Sophomore Reading Benchmark
Thurs 4/25
Drop
Friday 4/26
Reviewing topics and trends
Choosing topic and completing the research question generator
Posting research questions and grouping
How to read an image for research
Monday 4/29
Reviewing research questions
Reading sources – images and text using the databases
- 1 image source
- 1 text/video source
Tues 4/30
Continuing to read sources – images and text
Additional 2 images and 2 source readings
Wed 5/1
Continuing to read sources – images and text
Additional 2 images and 2 source readings
Thurs 5/2
How to Write an Op-Ed
Finish last sources
- Total of 6 news sources and 6 images
Fri 5/3
Finish last sources
Outlining the Op-ed
Mon 5/6
MLA Workshop
Outlining and drafting
HW: either finishing source readings or spending 30-40 minutes on outlining the draft
Tues 5/7
Drop
Wed 5/8
Outlining and drafting
Thurs 5/9
Outlining and drafting
Fri 5/10
Ms. Burns video
HW: assembling images
Mon 5/13
Print out draft of op-ed once completed for feedback
Submit Works Cited to library
Tues 5/14
Print out draft of op-ed once completed for feedback
Submit Works Cited to library
Assembling images for the video
Wed 5/15
Revising the draft and assembling images
Thurs 5/16
Revising the draft and assembling images/working on the video
Fri 5/17
Drop
Mon 5/20
Revising the draft and assembling images/working on the video
Tues 5/21
Op-ed workshop day
Portfolio Overview
Wed 5/22
Drop
Thurs 5/23
Revising pieces for the portfolio
Outlining for the writer’s reflection
HW: finishing portfolio and outline for writer’s refleciton
Fri 5/24
In-class writing of writer’s reflection
Tues 5/28
Workday for op-ed video
- Finish revised draft
- Including images and voiceover on video
Wed 5/29
Final workday for op-ed video
Thurs 5/30
Drop
Fri 5/31
Op-ed video due
- Upload final draft with works cited and video with works cited on google classroom
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