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Duration: 90 minutes

Assessments: Student discussions, Student writing

 

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IN-CLASS:
1. Do Now: How do you escape the realities you face and 'not feel the blows' that harm you?
2. Small Group Discussions about pages 72-92. (For this activity the students used the '2 circles' discussion format. They were prepared with their own passages to share, and then the accompanying powerpoint presentation provided them with further discussion material)

3. Read/Discuss pages 93-98 of Night together.

HOMEWORK DUE NEXT CLASS:
1. Write 3 quote responses in your journal for pages 81-98. (2 paragraphs for each response!)
2. Eliezer tells of two fathers and two sons.:
* He speaks of Rabbi Eliahou and his son who, "... had wanted to get rid of his father! He had felt that his father was growing weak, he had believed that the end was near and had sought this separation in order to get rid of the burden, to free himself from an encumbrance which could lessen his own chances of survival." (87)
* He speaks of the father whose son killed him for a piece of bread (96).
In two pages, respond to the following questions: How does Eliezer describe his response to these two events? What is he trying to express to you? How do you think being a witness to these events changes Eliezer?

2 Circles Discussion Questions Presentation
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Author Reflections

This activiry worked well, to not only prepare the students as we approched the end of the book, but to ask them to continue to thnk critically about events occuring through references passages from within the novel as well as material from outside the text as well that was thematically connected