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Night by Elie Wiesel
A 11th Grade Unit
'Night' Vocabulary
While engaging with the text, students will need to know the following vocabulary to better understand the content. There will be a pre-assement to find out what the students already know along with a assessment done at the end of the unit to find out what they have learned. We will spend a day going over the vocabulary terms at the beginning of the unit.
Here is the worksheet for the pre-assessment
Below is a thorough list of vocabulary words the students will engage with during the reading of the novel
1. Genocide-the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation
2. Death camp-a prison camp, especially one for political prisoners or prisoners of war, in which many die from poor conditions and treatment or from mass execution
3. Holocaust- destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war
4. Synagogue- the building where a Jewish assembly or congregation meets for religious worship and instruction
5. Ghettos-an isolated or segregated group or area
6. Anti-semitism- hostility to or prejudice against Jews
7. Gestapo-the official secret police of Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe
8. Red Army-the army and the air force of the Russian Soviet
9. Final Soultion-the Nazi policy of exterminating European Jews. Introduced by Heinrich Himmler and administered by Adolf Eichmann, the policy resulted in the murder of 6 million Jews in concentration camps between 1941 and 1945
10. Mysticism- a religion bases on a communion with an ultimate reality
11. Deportee- a person who is expelled from a home or community by authority
12. Exterminate- killing on a large scale
13. Liquidate- the removal of or elimation
14. Oppresive- weighing heavily on the senses or spirit.
15. Tormenting- intense feelings of suffering
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