Review Assignment for Elie Wiesel’s Night
Wiesel’s poignant memoir Night depicts the difficult journey Elie undertook during
the Holocaust; a journey that occurs on many levels including physically, mentally,
emotionally, and spiritually. A story or mind map is a type of detailed graphic
organizer that provides a means to better understand the relationships of
characters, the action, the settings and themes of a literary piece more deeply.
Story or mind maps include symbols, words and quotes that help address essential
questions about the work. Essentially, the story map you create will visually
reflect all you understand about the book as a whole.
Essential Questions:
1. What trials, tribulations and epiphanies did Elie’s journey reveal about his
relationship with himself, his God, his family and others?
2. What does the reader learn from the question that Elie ultimately asks of God
and why is this significant?
Assignment: Create a story or mind map for Elie Wiesel’s Night that takes into
account the action, characters and settings of Elie’s journey in all nine sections of
the book and makes a statement about Elie’s journey. Your map should address
both of the essential questions listed above. It is important that your map
demonstrate evidence of analysis and critical thought.
Steps: Use power point or prezi format to create your story map. Decide how you
will represent the items below on your map. (Yes, you may add to your map other
characters, events, actions that are not on the list.) Use words, symbols, quotes
with page number and color. Consider the relationships between characters and
events; place the items on your map in such a way to depict those relationships.
You are encouraged to think symbolically (see example given in class of a story
map). Consider your overall map and decide what you want the whole thing to look
like including borders, white space, fonts, pictures, etc. You may draw (online only),
or you may use pictures off of the internet.
Feel free to take artistic liberty with this as long as you:
1. Include all the elements on list below
2. Include words, at least 3 quotes with page location, symbols and color
3. Title your story or mind map
4. Put your name on the first slide or section of the story map; email the map
to me. vonda.davenport@bgreen.kyschools.us
5. Address the two essential questions.
The story or mind map should contain the following elements:
Elie’s home in Sighet, Hungary including his parents and sisters
Moshe the Beadle, Cabbala
Ghettos and Deportation
Cattle car ride and Madame Schaecter
Auschwitz-Birkenau
Selection
Mengele, Franek, Idek the Kapo, Stein of Antwerp, Akiba Drumer
Sonder-Komomando unit and Bela Katz
Hanging of Pipel
Buna and Elie’s beating
Kaddish, Yom Kippur and Elie’s reaction
Death March
Rabbi Eliahou, Zalman, Juliek
Father-son relationships in Night
Buchenwald
Liberation
Suggestions:
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Look for ways to incorporate quotes, symbols, and color to make your whole graphic
organizer a thorough and visual representation of the book Night.
Edit for spelling, capitalization and punctuation.
NOTE: Neatness and originality are significant parts of the grade.
A=All requirements are met with neatness and originality plus the story or mind map depicts original
thinking and deep understanding of the importance of the book.
B=All requirements are met with neatness, limited originality and story or mind map depicts some
original thinking and some understanding of importance of book.
C=80% of requirements met but lacking in neatness and no demonstration of originality; story or
mind map depicts some thinking but the map lacks an overall synthesis of book.
D=50% of requirements met; lacking in neatness; no demonstration of originality (looks like it was
done right before being turned in); very little understanding of the book depicted
F=Need I say anything?