1. Please have your spiral and Pyramid of Hate handout on your desk..
thursday, and friday, 11.18

2. Today’s Agenda Collect Jim Crow/Nuremberg chart
Group Decisions: Group to research; working thesis
Do Now: Conformity
Asch and Milgram Experiments analysis, questions, and class discussion
Read Chapter 2/Update Pyramid of Hate – Chs. 1 and 2

3. Do Now: Conformity
In your spiral, write your own definition of the word “conformity”.
Webster’s Dictionary defines “conformity” as agreement in form, manner, or character. Copy this definition into your spiral.
Dead Poet's Society

4. Thematic Strand: Peer Pressure
You will work in groups of no more than 3 to study and respond to questions about two studies:
The Asch Study: Psychology of Conformity
Asch Experiment
Milgram’s Experiments
Milgram

5. Psychology of Conformity Answer the following in your spiral and be ready to discuss:
Compare the reasons for conformity
Why do you think people conformed in Ashe?
Why do you think people conformed in Milgram?
When people didn’t conform, what were the circumstances?
What are some possible conclusions about human nature that can be drawn from the reasons why people didn’t conform?
Do these studies help to explain any aspect of the Holocaust? Why or why not?

6. Please pick up your spiral as you enter the room today.
tuesday, and Monday, 12.30

7. Today’s Agenda Do Now: Peer Pressure
Working in groups to understand Thematic Strand of peer pressure in Wiesel’s Night
Read Night excerpt (from chapter 3)
Analysis and response to questions over excerpt
Class discussion of group findings
Research time – oppressed group

8. Do Now: Peer Pressure
Brainstorm a list of at least 5 ways you are pressured to conform. In addition to peer pressure, you may also want to consider family pressures and societal pressures.
What are the negative effects of peer pressure?
Can there be positive effects of peer pressure? Explain.

9. Peer Pressure in Night
In a group of no more than 3 people, you will read the excerpt “The Final Solution” from Chapter 3 of Night aloud to each other.

10. Chapter 3 Discussion Questions
Your group will answer one of these questions in your spiral. Be ready to discuss your responses with the class.
1. In this excerpt from Elie Wiesel’s Night, how did the Nazis dehumanize Jews?
2. Why do you think the older men did not want the younger men to revolt?
3. Why were Elie Wiesel and his father told to lie about their ages?
All groups will complete the following:
Choose one moment that was a defining moment or a turning point in Elie’s life from this excerpt. Copy it into your spiral. How did this moment change his perception of the world, relationships, life, other people, and/or even himself?

11. Pyramid of Hate
Read the excerpt that begins, “One Sunday, when half of us…” and ends “In the afternoon we went cheerfully to clear away the ruins,” (bottom of 38- middle of 40).
Update the Pyramid of Hate for the excerpts from Chs. 3 and 4.
Include at least 4 details; record each in the correct level.

12. Research Time…
I would recommend that each member of your group choose a database or website to use.
At least one person should look for a primary source (letter, photograph, interview, image from that time period)
Another person look for a secondary source regarding the oppressed group.
Use the assignment sheet and the pyramid template and timeline to assist you while researching.