Night by Elie Wiesel
Overview and Schedule
Night is among the most powerful of personal narratives. It is a memoir written in nine chapters that chronicles a boy’
s struggle to survive the inhumane conditions of Auschwitz and other concentration camps while he struggles with
his dwindling faith.
Below are some of the activities that you will complete while reading Night:
• Journal writing
• Daily Reading Log entries (dialectic journaling, drawings, Text/Me charts)
• In-class guided discussions and Socratic Seminars (in bold)
• Reading and responding to several additional poems, essays, excerpts that relate to Night
• Create a Found poem in response to the images associated with Night
• Collage
• Test
Monday
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Tuesday
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Wednesday
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Thursday
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Friday
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Reading to page
20 in class
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3 Labor Day
Read pages #21-43
(Read ahead!)
Text/Me and
journaling
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4 Found Poem
Holocaust terms
Collect
Read pages # 45-62
Text/Me and
journaling and
Write notes on
Historical Context
Wiesel Biography
from Textbook
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Think/Group/Share
Read pages
#63-80
Reading Journals
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Vocabulary
Read to page #
81-92
Taxonomy and
Read pages #
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Read pages #93-End
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