May 5 and 6 I can review literary terms. I can identify key vocabulary words in order to understand text. I can read increasingly challenging text. I can analyze the influences on text in order to make conclusions about the important ideas of the time and place in which the literary work was written. I can create an outline or plan for my writing.

Bell Ringer Review Write a short definition for the following terms: O Tone O Mood O Allusion O Diction O Simile O Metaphor O Personification

Essential question and purpose for our next novel… Night O Essential question- O What events can suddenly change the course of a person’s life? O Discuss O We will read to find out how young Elie Wiesel’s life is profoundly and forever changed.

Background for Night O The town of Sighet is where Night begins. O During Wiesel’s childhood, Sighet was home to 15,000 Jews. Like most of their neighbors Wiesel’s family was poor, but dedicated to education. This meant Elie was spending his days and evenings studying sacred Jewish texts. At age 12, Elie began to exploring cabbala or Jewish mysticism- an approach to Bible study that analyzes hidden meanings in the text.

Vocabulary O Compatriots- fellow countrymen O Edict- official statement, law O Expound- to set fourth in detail O Firmament- the sky or heavens O Hermetically- completely sealed O Pestilential-filled with disease O Pillage- to rob with open violence O premonition- anticipation of an event, usually negative, even without warning O Truncheon- a police officer’s stick

Reading Log O You will keep a reading log of various activities throughout the reading of this novel. O It is important to date every activity! O Today is May 5. O I may check activities periodically so be sure to keep up with your work!

Active reading O In chapters 1 and 2, a number of significant (important) things happen to Elie and other Jews of Sighet. Look for important events and for how people respond to them. List some key events, identify how Wiesel and other Jews respond, and write what happens next in the story. O Draw a chart in your reading log and be sure to add the date. Divide your paper into 3 columns. Label the columns: event, response, what happens next. O Read Chapters 1 and 2.

Reading check O In your reading log, write an answer to the following questions: 1. What is your reaction to Moche the Beadle? 2. Describe Elie’s community at the beginning of the story. 3. What are some incidents that suggest or foreshadow the coming danger? 4. What are the conditions on the Jew’s train journey? 5. How do the Jews react to Madame Schacter’s behavior?

Writing O Writing Situation: Wiesel explains that Moche the Beadle flees Sighet when the Germans arrest leaders in the Jewish community. Think back to our class discussion of the essential question. O Writing directions: Assuming Moche had escaped to freedom, what would you want to say to him about the situation? What feelings would you want express about the situation in which fellow villagers find themselves. Write a letter to Moche expressing your thoughts. You could include your thoughts, feelings, and a solution. O You will write for 15 minutes. This is enough time to dissect the prompt (SPAM) and start your prewriting. O S-situation, P-purpose, A-audience, M-mode O Write the SPAM on your paper and then your prewrite.