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Night Dialectical Journal

Ms. Watkins

8th grade English Language Arts &

Reading Class- Fall 2013

ELAR- 8th grade Name: Ms. Watkins

Character Map


Constructing a Theme Statement & Identifying Supporting Citations Directions: Select a theme word from page word list provided, create a theme statement, and identify three citations (quotes) from the novel that support your theme statement. Explain how your citations support your theme statement.

Theme Word Theme Statement

Identify three citations (quotes) from the novel that support your theme statement. Explain how your citations support your theme statement.

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Citation (Quote) How does the citation support your theme statement?

Criteria for Success: My theme word relates to a big idea expressed in the novel.

My theme statement is a message or lesson from a text, about life, the world, or human nature.

I identified three different citations from the novel that I can use to support my theme statement.

I explained how my citations support my theme statement.


Theme Words and Theme Statements

Key words Notes Theme words

Theme statements

Theme statements should NOT: (Pay attention to the first two!)

Words that express big ideas in the text/world. A theme statement is a message or lesson from a text about life, the world, or human nature. To be clear: Theme statements and theme word are NOT THE SAME!

Theme word in To Kill a Mockingbird

Theme statements in To Kill a Mockingbird

Innocence

The theme of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is we should protect the innocent.

1. Just be a statement about society without a lesson

Ex: Men are abusive and oppressive toward women. 2. Be too obvious

Ex: Oppression disempowers individuals or Oppression causes long term damage in individuals.

3. Just state theme words (The theme of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is innocence)

4. Talk about individual characters 5. Talk about symbols or motifs in the text (The theme of Harper Lee’s

To Kill a Mockingbird is it is wrong to kill mockingbirds because they are innocent.)

6. Use a quote from the text to express the theme. ( The theme of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is knowing you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what)

7. One last note!!! STOP CAPITALIZING theme words when they are not at the beginning of sentences! They are NOT proper nouns!


The Holocaust The Holocaust was the systematic mass slaughter of millions of innocent people by the Nazis during WWII.

The Jewish people of Europe were the most numerous of the victims of the Holocaust. Most data indicates that approximately six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. Jewish people are a religious group that dates back to the ancient Israelites in approximately 2000 BCE. Judaism is a monotheistic faith and is one of the oldest religions still practiced today. The Star of David is a widely used and recognized symbol of the Jewish faith. This symbol took on a special significance during World War II, when Jews being persecuted by the German government were forced to wear a yellow Star of David with the word “Jude” (Jew) written in the middle. This star was required to be attached to the clothing of all Jews, and led to widespread discrimination against the Jewish population.

Millions of other minority members also perished in the Holocaust. About 220,000 Sinti

and Roma [gypsies from Central and Eastern Europe] were murdered — between a quarter to a half of their European population. Other groups deemed by the Nazis to be "racially inferior" included Poles (6 million killed, of whom 3 million were Christian, and the rest Jewish), Serbs (estimates vary between 500,000 and 1.2 million killed), around 500,000 Bosnians, Soviet military prisoners of war and civilians in occupied territories including Russians and other East Slavs, the mentally or physically disabled, homosexuals, Africans, and other ethnic and religious groups were also persecuted and killed.

In December 1941, the Nazis opened Chelmno, the first of what would soon be seven extermination camps,

dedicated entirely to the mass killing of human beings on a wide spread scale, as opposed to the labor or concentration camps. Over three million Jews would die in these extermination camps. The method of killing at these camps was by poison gas, usually in "gas chambers", although many prisoners were killed in mass shootings and by other means. The bodies of those killed were burned in furnaces, and the ashes buried or scattered. The concentration and death camps were run by SS Officers who were like the Nazis police force. The largest death camp built was Auschwitz-Birkenau, which had both a labor camp (Auschwitz) and an extermination camp (Birkenau). At the peak of operations, Birkenau's gas chambers killed approximately 8,000 people a day.

Upon arrival in these camps, all valuables were taken from the prisoners, and the women had to have their

hair cut off. According to a Nazi document, the hair was to be used for the manufacture of stockings. Prisoners were then divided into two groups during a process called ‘selection’: those too weak for work were immediately executed in gas chambers (which were sometimes disguised as showers) and their bodies burned, while others were used for slave labor in factories or industrial enterprises located in the camp or nearby. Shoes, stockings, and anything else of value was recycled for use in products to support the war effort, regardless of whether or not a prisoner was sent to death. Some prisoners were forced to work in the collection and disposal of corpses, and to extract gold teeth from the dead.

In some concentration camps and death camps doctors forcibly performed experiments on the prisoners.

Josef Mengele was an SS Officer and doctor at Auschwitz-Birkenau who performed many questionably human medical experiments. For example, he tried to change children’s’ eye color by injecting chemicals in to their eyes, he transferred blood from one twin to another twin without anesthesia, and he also amputated prisoners limbs and sometimes killed patients just to dissect them. The prisoners who survived were freed from the camps by the Allied Soldiers at the end of World War II.

World War II

World War II (abbreviated WWII) was a worldwide conflict fought between the Allied Powers and the Axis Powers, from 1939 until 1945. Armed forces from over seventy nations engaged in aerial, naval, and ground-based


combat. Spanning much of the globe, World War II resulted in the deaths of over sixty million people, making it the deadliest conflict in human history. The war ended with an Allied victory.

On September 1, 1939, Germany, led by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, invaded Poland according to a secret

agreement with the Soviet Union, which joined the invasion on September 17. On September 3, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, followed six hours later by France, responded by declaring war on Germany, initiating a widespread naval war. Germany rapidly overwhelmed Poland, then Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium and France in 1940, and Yugoslavia and Greece in 1941. Italian, and later German, troops attacked British forces in North Africa. By summer of 1941, Germany had conquered France and most of Western Europe, but it failed to subdue the United Kingdom due to the resistance of the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy. The Russian Front - Adolf Hitler then turned on the Soviet Union, launching a surprise attack on June 22, 1941. Despite enormous gains, the invasion bogged down outside of Moscow in late 1941 as winter set in and made further advances difficult. The Soviets later launched a massive counterattack encircling and then forcing the surrender of the German Sixth Army at the Battle of Stalingrad (1942-43), decisively defeated the Axis during the Battle of Kursk, and broke the Siege of Leningrad. The Red Army then pursued the retreating Wehrmacht all the way to Berlin, and won the street-by-street Battle of Berlin, as Hitler committed suicide in his underground bunker on April 30, 1945. Linkup of the Allied Armies in Germany - Meanwhile, the Western Allies (United States and United Kingdom) invaded Italy in 1943 and then liberated France in 1944, following amphibious (water) landings in the Battle of Normandy. Repulsing a German counterattack at the Battle of the Bulge in December, the Western Allies crossed the Rhine River and linked up with their Soviet counterparts at the Elbe River in central Germany. The Holocaust - During the war, six million Jews, as well as Roma (Gypsies), Slavs, Communists, homosexuals, the disabled and several other groups, were murdered by Germany in a state-sponsored genocide that has come to be known as The Holocaust. Aftermath - About 62 million people, or 2.5% of the world population, died in the war, though estimates vary greatly (see World War II casualties). Large swathes of Europe and Asia were devastated and took years to recover. The war had political, sociological, economic and technological consequences that last to this day.

Answer the following questions in complete sentences. Questions: 1. How many European Jews were killed by the Nazis? 2. Besides the Jews, what are three other groups that were targeted and killed by the Nazis? 3. What did the Nazis open in December 1941? 4. What happened to the prisoners when they arrived at a death camp?


5. Who was Josef Mengele? 6. When was WWII? 7. Who lead Germany and the Nazi party? 8. Where did Germany invade to start the war? 9. Which countries declared war on Germany in September 1939? 10. How many people died in WWII? 11. Which side of the war was the United States and England on? (Allied or Axis)


Timeline of Important Events

in the World in Elie’s Life 1928 September 30th – Elie was born in Sighet, Transylvania

The Nazi Party takes control of Germany’s government 1933

Nuremberg Race Laws against Jews are decreed, depriving Jews of German citizenship 1935

The SS renames its units deployed at concentration camps the “Death’s Head Units” 1936

Japan invades China proper, initiating the Pacific War that would become a part of World War II

1937

Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) results in widespread destruction of synagogue, businesses, and homes 1938

Germany invades Poland starting World War II in Europe 1939

In May – the Auschwitz concentration camp is established near the Polish city of Oswiecim In August – Transylvania becomes part of Hungary 1940

December - The U.S. enters World War II after Pearl Harbor 1941 12 year old Elie Wiesel begins studying the Kabbalah

“The Final Solution” – a plan to murder the European Jews – is coordinated at the Wannsee Conference in Berlin

Anne Frank and her family go into hiding 1942

Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto rise up against their Nazi oppressors. 1943

1944

May - Elie Wiesel is 15 years old when his family are deported from Sighet to Auschwitz

1945

April - US troops liberate Elie Wiesel at the Buchenwald concentration camp

Eighteen of 21 defendants are convicted by the International Military Tribunal at the Nuremberg Trial; 12 are sentenced to death

1946

1948

Elie Wiesel studies at the Sorbonne in Paris. He becomes interested in journalism.

Important Locations in Night Map Elie’s journey throughout the novel.


Night Dialectical Journal- Chapter 1 Fill in your response answers in the dialectical journal, remember to use complete sentences.

Reference to the Text In the space below, copy direct quotations, citations, summaries, paraphrases, key words, and/or other clear references to the text that “speak to you.”

Quote pg. #

Responses to the Textual Examples Analysis, Comment, Question, Thoughts

“He was poor and lived in utter penury. As a rule, our townspeople, while they did help the needy, did not particularly like them. Moishe de Beadle was the exception.” Pg. 3 “My father was a cultured man, rather unsentimental. He rarely displayed his feelings, not even within his family, and was more involved with the welfare of others than with that of his own kin.” Pg. 4 “He spoke only of what he had seen. But people not only refused to believe his talks, they refused to listen. Some even insinuated that he only wanted their pity, that he was imagining things. Others flatly aid that he had gone mad.” Pg. 7

What does this say about Moishe the Beadle? What about the people of the town and their reaction to Moishe even though he was poor?

How do you think Eliezer feels about his father’s attitude towards his family? What does imply about the father? Why do you think the father was more involved with others than his own family?

Go back to the beginning of the book, re-read pg. 3. Why do you think people refused to believe Moishe? Do you think people would listen if it would have been Eliezer’s father? Why or why not?


Night Dialectical Journal-Chapter 2-3 Answer in complete sentences. Make sure to EXPLAIN your answers. Reference to the Text In the space below, copy direct quotations, citations, summaries, paraphrases, key words, and/or other clear references to the text that “speak to you.”

Quote pg. #

Responses to the Textual Examples Your analysis, connection, commentary.

“Look at the fire! ...Once again, the young men bound and gagged her. When they actually struck her, people shout their approval.” Pg. 26

How do you feel about the way that this woman is treated? Do you think it’s fair? Explain. How has this experience changed the community of Sighet?

“Shut up, you moron, or I’ll tear you to pieces! You should have hanged yourselves rather than come here. Didn’t you know what is in store for you here in Auschwitz? You didn’t know. In 1944.” Pg. 30

From the notes, we know that by 1944, the war was almost at its end, why do you think that the people in Sighet had no knowledge of the concentration camps? Explain.

“There were among us, a few tough young men. They actually had knives and were urging us to attach the armed guards…But the older men begged their sons not to be foolish…” pg. 31

Do you agree or disagree with the fact that the older men stopped the revolt? Explain your answer.

“The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria…” pg. 33

Do you think this is true about the world? Do you think people really did not care about what was happening, or did many not know? Explain your answer.


Night Dialectical Journal-Chapter 4 Answer in complete sentences. Make sure to EXPLAIN your answers. Reference to the Text In the space below, copy direct quotations, citations, summaries, paraphrases, key words, and/or other clear references to the text that “speak to you.”

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Responses to the Textual Examples In the space below, write your responses. You may (1) make personal connections; (2) make associations to other texts or events; (3) share feelings about the ideas, tone, and/or style; (4) question parts of the passage you don’t understand; (5) comment about what you think is important; (6) speculate about the significance of images; (7) comment about the repetition of ideas, words, phrases, and/or images; (8) make connections among passages or section in the text; (9) explain or speculate about symbols or motifs; (10) speculate about theme; and/or (11) address questions that are raised.

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