Tuesday
April 14th, 2009 (4/14/2009)
Required Materials:
 Composition Notebook
 Pen/Pencil
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Time Given:
What We Will Do:
1 minute
3-7 minutes
1 minute
5 minutes
30-35 minutes
Review: Strike System Reminders
Warm Up: “Night Opinions.”
Discussion: Schedule Changes, Homework, The Structure of Night
PP Notes: Todorov’s Theory, Chapter 1 Review, Chapter 2
Preview
Hampton’s Popcorn: Night, Chapter 1, 2
Quote
“God must have been on leave during the Holocaust.”
--Simon Wiesenthal
Strike System Reminders
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1st period: NO STRIKE SYSTEM
2nd period: NO STRIKE SYSTEM
3rd period: NO STRIKE SYSTEM
4th period: NO STRIKE SYSTEM
6th period: 3 Strikes (Individual System)
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Suggestions: Stop talking while I am talking.
Tuesday
April 14th, 2009 (4/14/2009)
Time Given: 3 minutes
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Yesterday we started reading our newest
novel, Night. Most classes were close to
finishing Chapter 1.
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What is your opinion of Night so far?
Can you remember anything specific
that happened in the book while we
read it yesterday? Use your Chapter 1
notes from yesterday if you need help.
Schedule Change for Thurs/Fri
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What Are We Doing?
Monday
Notes on Night, Chapter 1. Read Chapter 1. Hampton’s Popcorn.
Tuesday
Notes on Night, Chapter 2. Read Chapter 2. Regular Popcorn +
Questions at the end.
Wednesday
Early Release Day. Notes on Night, Chapter 3. Read part of
Chapter 3.Hampton’s Popcorn/Discussion.
Thursday/
Friday
Quiz. Holocaust Photo Project in Computer Lab. More details to
follow.
 Quiz. Holocaust Poetry Project in Hampton’s room.
Why the change?
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Computer lab = no printer.
So, next Thursday/Friday (23 and 24th), I’ll be
getting the Dell Laptops brought up here for you to
work on your Project.
The Thursday/Friday after that (30th and 1st of May),
I’ll have the Apple Laptops for you to use for
another project.
YOU HAVE HOMEWORK!
WRITE IT DOWN NOW!
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You must bring a photo of yourself or a family
member doing an sport or activity that you enjoy
doing.
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Fishing
Camping
Hunting
Basketball
Baseball
Studying
Napping
It can be from ANY time period—recent photo or a
photo from your childhood. It does not matter.
YOU HAVE HOMEWORK!
WRITE IT DOWN NOW!
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The Homework is due next Wednesday—I will give
you daily reminders.
You may turn it in any day from now until next
Wednesday—I will keep your photos safe.
It counts as a project—so do it!!!!
The Structure of Night
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Does Night fit into Freytag’s Triangle—in other
words, does it have a beginning moment, a conflict,
a climax, and a resolution?
Todorov’s Theory
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A narrative (story) is made up of moments of
balance and unbalance.
The Structure of Night
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In Night, pay attention to how often Elie experiences
balance and unbalance.
Night, Chapter 1
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Introduction to the narrator, Elie and his family.
They live in a little town called Sighet. He wants to
study religion with his teacher, Moshe the Beadle.
Despite feeling confident that the Russians will
defeat the Germans, the Germans invade Sighet. The
Jews are forced into a “ghetto” and then taken to a
concentration camp to die.
Night, Chapter 2
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Elie boards the train for the main concentration
camp, Auschwitz. In the train, Madame Schachter
goes mad, claiming to see flames outside. Elie
arrives at Birkenau, the reception center.
Night, Chapter 1/2
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Hampton’s Popcorn for remainder of Chapter 1.
Look at board next to this for where we stopped
yesterday 
Regular popcorn for Chapter 2 (5 pages)
2 paragraph minimum.
Should take about 30 minutes.
Questions?