Social Conflict, Responsibility and Justice
Night by Elie Wiesel
Introduction: We will read Elie Wiesel’s Night, a memoir about his experiences in Buchenwald
and Auschwitz concentration camps during the Holocaust. This personal account of intense
hardship and tragedy explores morality and justice, while challenging you to think outside of your
own beliefs and experiences. Comparing and contrasting this novel with other texts will allow you to
investigate various voices and consider how these perspectives inform their understanding of
human nature.
Essential Questions Honors English 10:
■ What causes people to harm or do injustice to others? How do we distance ourselves from
political, religious, and social tragedy? Are people who stand by and stay silent when they
witness injustice equally responsible for its occurrence? What does this say about human
nature?
■ Is literature history? How does it function in a historical timeline and what role does it play
in the formation or reduction of history?
■ How does one voice inform our understanding of a historical event? How do the stories of
other, non-Jewish “victims” inform your understanding of the Holocaust? How can we use
this novel to challenge the idea of the “single story?”
■ What does tragedy do to familial relationships, beliefs, values, and morality?
■ What beliefs/values do you feel strongly about? How do these beliefs govern your actions?
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HONORS 10: Night Unit Calendar
Monday, 1/7
Pre-Reading
Activity
Monday, 1/14
Found Vocab
Due
Tuesday, 1/8
Webquest
Wednesday, 1/9
Shortened Periods
Thursday, 1/10
Shortened Periods
Night pages 3-22
DUE
Vocab sentences
DUE
Reading Journal
and Discussion
Podcast Activity
HW: Read pgs. 822, work on vocab
sentences
Tuesday, 1/15
Reflections due
HW: Vocab
sentences
HW: Read pgs. 2346
Wednesday, 1/16
Night pages 6784 DUE
Thursday, 1/17
Vocabulary Quiz
Other Voices
Activity Day
Reading Journal
and Discussion
HW: Read pgs. 6784
Tuesday, 1/22
TED Talk Activity
HW: Study for
vocab quiz
Wednesday, 1/23
Final
Assessments Due
at end of period
Friday, 1/11
Night pages 2346 DUE
Choice reading
assignment DUE
Reading Journal
and Discussion
HW: Read pgs. 4766 and Found
Vocab
Friday, 1/18
Records Day: No
School
Silent Reading Time
Night pages 4766 DUE
Reading Activity
HW: Reflection,
Sign up for a text
for tomorrow’s
activity
Monday, 1/21
Night pages 85115 DUE
Reading Discussion
Activity
HW: Final
Assessment
HW: Final
assessment
HW: Read pgs. 85115
Thursday, 1/24
Friday, 1/25
Social Conflict, Responsibility and Justice
Night by Elie Wiesel
Introduction: We will read Elie Wiesel’s Night, a memoir about his experiences in Buchenwald
and Auschwitz concentration camps during the Holocaust. This personal account of intense
hardship and tragedy explores morality and justice, while challenging you to think outside of your
own beliefs and experiences. Comparing and contrasting this novel with other texts will allow you to
investigate various voices and consider how these perspectives inform their understanding of
human nature.
Essential Questions English 10:
■ What causes people to harm or do injustice to others? How do we distance ourselves from
political, religious, and social tragedy? Are people who stand by and stay silent when they
witness injustice equally responsible for its occurrence? What does this say about human
nature?
■ How does one voice inform our understanding of a historical event? How do the stories of
other, non-Jewish “victims” inform your understanding of the Holocaust? How can we use
this novel to challenge the idea of the “single story?”
■ What does tragedy do to familial relationships, beliefs, values, and morality?
■ What beliefs/values do you feel strongly about? How do these beliefs govern your actions?
ENGLISH 10: Night Unit Calendar
Monday, 1/7
Pre-Reading
Activity
Tuesday, 1/8
Webquest
Read through pg. 8
Wednesday, 1/9
Shortened Periods
Thursday, 1/10
Shortened periods
Friday, 1/11
Read pgs. 36-46
Read through pg. 22
Podcast Activity and
Silent Reading
Reading Journal
and Discussion
Reading Journal
and Discussion
Monday, 1/14
Reading Discussion
and Activity
HW: Read through
pg. 14
HW: work on vocab
sentences
HW: Read through
pg. 36
HW: Read pgs. 4754
Tuesday, 1/15
Vocab sentences
due
Wednesday, 1/16
Read pgs 76-84
Thursday, 1/17
Vocabulary Quiz
Friday, 1/18
Records Day: No
School
Reading Journal
and Discussion
Silent Reading time
Other Voices
Activity Day
Read pgs. 66-69
aloud
HW: Finish Vocab
sentences
HW: Read pgs.69top of 76
HW: Study for
vocab quiz
HW: Read through
pg. 104
Monday, 1/21
Read through end
of book
Tuesday, 1/22
Finish any extra
reading
Thursday, 1/24
Reading Discussion
Activity
Work on final
assessment
Wednesday, 1/23
Final
Assessments due
at end of class
period
HW: Final
Assessment
HW: Final
assessment
Friday, 1/25