1. Night

2. Historical Background Quiz
Nazi Vocab
Notes from the Video

3. Using Minor Characters to Create Setting
Reflect: Write a journal entry about how the character your group focused on added to the setting of Auschwitz.
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4. Using Minor Characters to Create Setting
look at the list of people you wrote down yesterday
jot down the setting/settings you associate with each person
Consider how this list of names could become a cast of characters in your own memoir and reflect on how each character leaves you with a specific feeling
write this feeling/these feelings down next to that person

5. Clear your Desk of everything but a pen or pencil

6. Why does Wiesel spend so much time talking about his gold Crown?

7. What was strange about the way the Nazis killed the prisoners that stole food?

8. As Wiesel watches the hanging of the Pipel, the young boy, how is this horrific scene symbolic?
Consider:
The age of the boy
The way he struggled between life and death for so long
The question, “Where is God?” over and over again

9. Turn and talk: Where was Wiesel’s imagery strongest?

10. Turn and Talk:
What other kinds of figurative language does Elie Wiesel use in this chapter?

11. Vignette Project Requirements: Possible Points: 20 summative
Vignette must be one page or less
Vignette must include vivid imagery (clearly portrays a time and place)
Vignette must include one well-developed minor character
Vignette must be a scene from the writer’s past
Vignette must include proper grammar and conventions
Possible Points: 20 summative
Due date: Tuesday, February 27th

12. What differences are there? Would they get a full score?
Questions to address
What do they all share?
What differences are there?
Would they get a full score?

13. Clear minor character? Vivid imagery? Can tell time and place?
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