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Night by Elie Wiesel
A 11th Grade Unit
Supplemental Texts
Throught the Night Unit, we will be engaging with multiple forms of text which are as followed:
Short Stories
We are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers who died in the Holocaust by Jacob Baos
Excerpts from the Hiding Place by Corrie Boom
Hide and Seek by Maria Weinstein
Films
Schindlers List- Cattle Car, Ghetto Roundup, Shooting, and liberation scenes
Oprah Winfrey Interview with Elie Wiesel (YouTube)
Auschwitz Documentary (YouTube)
Testimony Interviews (ushmm.org)
Non-Fiction
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
We will be watching different clips from the movie Schindler's list throughout the reading of Night to give the students a better visual image of the events in the Novel. They will see specific scenes that also happen in the text and compare the differences. They will also watch interviews of the author to better grasp the realism of the story. The documantaries and testimon interviews are to give the students a better sense of the Holocaust and Wiesel's situation.
In these two non-fiction novels, Faith is addressed in both of the main characters. During our unit we will talk about these two novels and how they changed just like Elie Wiesel. They will also be asked to think about specific moments in the text when they recognized this change in the character. For instance, when the girl in Book Thief loses her best friend.
Young Adult Novels
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Between Shades of Grey by Ruta Sepetry
The students will be encouraged to read a Young Adult Novel that addresses the theme of the unit. If they do so they will need to write me a short paragraph on how their book relates with the theme of the novel. By doing so, the students will receive extra credit. This will count towards their total pages read for the semester.
We will be reading short stories written by or about Holocaust survivors. We will use these stories to compare with the characters in Night. Students will be asked to look at the development of the characters to make comparisons. Since Faith is a the the in our Unit, students will be looking for specific moments in the texts where the character's faith has been tested or may have had an impact on them.
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