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Overarching Question: How can we justify and understand tragedies like the Holocaust?
Through this unit of study we will look at the following focus questions and answer the overarching question.
Focus Questions:
 What does it mean to be human?
 Why do bad things happen to good people?
 How does one overcome difficult situations?
 What events can suddenly change the course of a person’s life?
 What does hopeless mean to you?
 How can hopelessness affect people’s lives?
 What is freedom?
 What is the relationship between freedom and responsibility?
 Is liberty and justice for all attainable?
Enduring Understandings:
 Power tends to corrupt
 Absolute power corrupts absolutely
 All humans should be treated equally
 Individuals have the ability to make their own choices
Literary Terms: You will create flashcards for the following literary terms: On one side write the term
creatively and draw or print a picture; on the reverse side of the flashcard, write the definition and
include two examples from the book Night for each term-due Wednesday December 17 B day and
Thursday December 18th A day
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Memoir: a true account of one’s significant experience
Symbol: something concreate that represents something abstract
Dynamic character: a character who undergoes an important inner change
Motif: a recurring idea, theme, or subject
External conflict: a character’s struggle with an opposing force
Internal conflict: struggle within the mind of a character
Simile: comparison using like or as
Metaphor: a comparison of two dissimilar things which does not use “like” or “as”
Irony: referring to how a person, situation, statement or circumstance is not as it would actually seem.
Imagery: words and phrases that evaluate the five senses
Theme: central idea of a literary work, an insight into life
Hyperbole: extreme exaggeration
Personification: giving human qualities to an object or something nonhuman
Novel Terms: Throughout Night, Wiesel uses vocabulary and terminology that may be unfamiliar to many
students. Most of this vocabulary relates to aspects of the Jewish religion or culture, although some do not.
This glossary lists many such words; use it to help clarify your understanding as we read the text. Highlight the
words as we read them in the novel.
1. Moishe the Beadle (1): A beadle helps organize a religious prayer service
2. Synagogue (1): Jewish house of worship; similar to a church
3. Temple (1): Synagogue; Jewish house of worship
4. Cabbala (1): Study of Jewish mysticism and spirituality
5. Maimonides (1): Spanish philosopher and Jewish Scholar in the Middle Ages; established Jewish law in the
Talmud
6. Zohar (3): The foundational book of Jewish mysticism in Kabbalah
7. Talmud (5): Ancient rabbinic writings on Jewish law and tradition
8. Zionism (6): Political and cultural movement calling for the return of the Jewish people to their Biblical
home (Israel)
9. Passover (8): Jewish holiday that commemorates the Jew's liberation from slavery in Egypt.
10. Pentecost (10): Jewish holiday of Shavuot; commemorates the anniversary of the day God gave the Torah to
Moses and the Israelites at Mount Sinai
11. Gestapo (10): Secret State Police in Germany; used brutal methods to investigate Nazi enemies
12. Phylacteries (13): Small leather wrappings that contain texts from the Hebrew Scriptures and are worn by
Jewish men during morning prayer services
13. Rabbi (14): Leader of a Jewish congregation; similar to the role of a priest or minister.
14. SS (14): Schutzstaffel (Protection Squad); Hitler’s personal guard
15. Auschwitz (24); Birkenau (26): Largest concentration camp consisting of both labor and extermination
camps; located in Poland
16. Kaddish (31): The central prayer in the Jewish prayer service
17. Hasidic (42): A sect of Orthodox Jews originating in eastern Europe in the second half of the 18th century
18. Rosh Hashanah (63): The Jewish new year
19. Noah (64): Hebrew patriarch who saved himself, his family, and animals by building an ark in which they
survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain and flooding
20. Sodom (64): An ancient city that was destroyed by God for the wickedness of its inhabitants
21. Yom Kippur (65): Jewish Day of Atonement; the holiest of Jewish holidays. Observers traditionally fast and
confess their sins to God.
22. The Red Army (76): National army of the Soviet Union
23. Prophets (86): A biblical leader with the ability to communicate with God or predict the future
24. Aden (95): A former Middle Eastern British colony, now part of Yemen
25. Buchenwald (98): Concentration camp in North Central Germany
Assignments in INB and due dates:
Page 60 Title page Night by Elie Wiesel; color picture
Page 61 Chapter 1 pages 3-22 Questions 1-7
Page 62 Chapter 2 pages 23-28 Questions 8-14
Page 63 Chapter 3 pages 29-46 Questions 15-21
Page 64-65 Chapter 4 pages 47-65 Questions 22-36
Page 66-67 Chapter 5 pages 66-84 Questions 37-44
Page 68-69 Chapter 6 pages 85-97 Questions 45-50
Page 70-71 Chapter 7, 8, 9 pages 98-120 Questions 51-62
Total points for reading. Flashcards, and INB
due 12.3 B day/12.4 A day______/10
due 12.3 B day/12.4 A day______/17
due 12.5 B day/12.8 A day______/16
due 12.5 B day/12.8 A day______/16
due 12.9 B day/12.12 A day_____/33
due 12.9 B day/12.12 A day_____/17
due 12.11 B day/12.12 A day_____/14
due 12.17 B day/12.18 A day_____/26
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Final exam and Night Media project is due on Wednesday December 17 B day and Thursday December 18
A day