Night Bellwork 1 Monday 3/30

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Night Bellwork 1Monday 3/30

• Describe what PREJUDICE means.
• Describe what RACISM means.
• Describe what GENOCIDE means
• Describe what ANTISEMITISM means
• Describe what HOLOCAUST means.

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PREJUDICE

• Pre- Judge.
• It is prejudging someone on emotion, rumor or
  feelings. It is NOT based on fact or reason

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RACISM

• Hatred of ALL members of a particular race or
  ethnic group

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GENOCIDE

• Geno Greek root that means race, tribe or
  nation
• Cide Latin suffix that means killing
• This term was created AFTER WW2 as a result of
  how Jews and other ethnic groups were treated
  during the war. The intent of genocide is the
  total annihilation of a race or ethnic group.
  Genocide results from prejudice being taken to an
  extreme degree.

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ANTI-SEMITISM

• Hatred of a person of Jewish origin.
  Anti-Semitism began 2000 years ago. It did not
  begin with the Nazis.

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HOLOCAUST

• Greek root means burnt whole
• Word was created after WW2
• Refers specifically to the destruction of 6
  million Jews and 5 million non-jews during
  1933-1945.

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Night Bellwork 2April 1, 2009Copy the
following definition in your bellwork then
respond to the question

• Irony The use of words to express something
  other than and especially opposite of the literal
  meaning.
• Has anything ever happened to you that was the
  opposite of what you expected? For example, you
  left your umbrella at home and it rained, bought
  concert tickets then won some, paid 100 dollars
  for a pair of shoes then they went on sale?

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ThursdayApril 2, 2009Bellwork 3

• How has a belief in something or someone other
  than yourself sustained you (kept you going) in
  a time of crises. Explain in 4-7 sentences

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Bellwork 4Friday April 3, 2009

• In your opinion, why might the Jews of Sighet
  refuse to believe the stories of the horrors
  committed by the Nazis even when told by one
  who witnessed them? Discuss your thoughts in 4-7
  sentences.

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Monday April 6,2009Bellwork 5

• Answer the following questions in your bellwork
• What does the narrator do each evening?
• About what do Moche the beadle and Eliezer talk?
• Why does Moche leave the village?
• Before deportation, where were the Jews living?
• What does Madame Schachter scream that she sees?

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Bellwork 6Wednesday April 8, 2009

• Copy this down in your bellwork
• A motif in literature is a word, character,
  object, image, metaphor or idea that recurs and
  usually bears an important relationship to the
  theme of the work.
• The connotation of a word is the meaning,
  association, or emotion that a word suggests.
  This can also act as a motif.

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Thursday April 9,2009Bellwork 7

• Theme A major theme in Night is the idea of
  emotional death.
• What do you think emotional death is? How does
  the motif of night help develop that theme?
  Explain in 5-7 sentences

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BellworkFriday April 10, 2009

• Get out your vocabulary flash cards
• Get with a partner. 2-3 in a group ONLY
• You have 10 minutes to quiz each other

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Bellwork 8April 13, 2009

• Man raises himself toward God by the questions
  he asks Him
• Moche the Beadle was fond of repeating this
  statement to Elie in the beginning of the book.
  What do you think he means by this? How does this
  relate to all the questions of accusation Elie
  asks God at the start of Rosh Hashana?

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Bellwork 9

• Reading Check
• For what offense are the two adults and a child
  hanged?
• Why does Elie not fast on Yom Kippur?
• Why does Elie go to the hospital?
• What happens to the patients who stay in the
  hospital instead of evacuating?

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Bellwork 10

• One of the themes in Night is the theme of
  dignity in the face of inhuman cruelty.
• Review the following actions that are examples
  of this theme and in a sentence or two explain
  the dignified response in each situation.
• The Jews were abused by the Kapos and allowed
  only minimal food but on Rosh Hashanah
• Juliek was forbidden to play Beethoven, the
  prisoners were forced on a death march and they
  were freezing and crushed in barracks. However
  Juliek
• The doctors will not attend to Elies father, the
  fellow prisoners beat him, no more food is given
  to him because he is dying. However, Elie

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FridayApril 17

• Hand in Bellwork 1-10 if you have not already.
• You have 15 minutes to silently study for your
  quiz.
• After the quiz you may quietly relax!

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Bellwork 11Monday April 20, 2009

• Elie was given two contrasting pieces of advice
  about how to survive, one from a young Polish
  prisoner at the beginning of imprisonment (to
  help each other) and the other by the head of the
  block at Buchenwald (to help himself). In a
  paragraph of 5-7 sentences discuss which choice
  was more practical and which is more ethical.
• 3rd Vocab assignment due TOMORROW
• 4th Vocab assignment due WED/THUR
• Journals due MONDAY

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Bellwork 12Tuesday April 21, 2009

• The intense experience of WW2 and the Holocaust
  brought out the worst and the best in many
  people. Based on what you know of history and
  what Wiesel writes in Night, what conclusions can
  you draw about human nature? Explain your
  thoughts in 5-7 sentences.

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Bellwork 13

• After reading this memoir, what images, ideas,
  and feelings do you think you will never forget?
  What ones impacted you the most? How did they
  impact or effect you?
• Share your thoughts in a paragraph of 6-8
  sentences.

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Today

• Finishing up any reading
• Checking off Vocab Assignment 4
• Reviewing for Test
• Time to work on journals.