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Access the link below.  Sign on to the Pearson website for our textbook with the user names and passwords that I have given you in class.

1.  After you have signed on to your home page for the textbook, go to My Account to change your password through "edit profile".  Be sure to do this- I am tracking user activity and taking a grade for your completion of this.  And yes, I will be able to see if you have changed your password.

2.  Go back to Home.  Click on the "Open Book" icon.  Find the Table of Contents to the left.  Access Unit 4, Poetry Collection 6, "Tell the Truth but tell it slant" by Emily Dickinson (728).  Read the poem and take notes to discuss this poem in class tomorrow.

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Vocabulary Review for Midterm

Vocabulary Story 

                                                                         

Task-choose 20 from the 30 words below to use in a brief story that makes logical sense.  

You must use each word appropriately, in its proper form- noun, verb, adj, adverb, etc, and demonstrate your knowledge of the word’s definition to receive full credit. 

Underline each word that you use in the text-body- of the story.   Of course, use proper grammar and punctuation in your story.

Anticipation (n)

Culprit (n)

Sequence (n)

Revelation (n)

Yearning (n)

Crucial (adj)

Emerged (v)

Refrain (v)

Philosophy (n)

Sufficiently (adv)

Astray (n)

Emphatic (adj)

Indifferent (adj)

Frenzy (n)

Wavered (v)

Civilly (adv)

Quarreled (v)

Communal (adj)

Envious (adj)

Suite (v)

Grotesque (adj)

Indulge (v)

Optimism (n)

Mysticism (n)

Abstraction (n)

Automatons (n)

Apathy (n)

Entity (n)

Semblance (n)

Vigilance (n)

1. Choose your words.  Brainstorm; write the story: individually.
2. Share your story with a partner.  Read and analyze each other's stories for appropriate use of the word and fulfillment of the assignment criteria.
3.  Choose one story to read out loud to the class.  The writer of the story does not read their story- their partner does.
4. Presentation of Vocabulary Stories to the class for a grade.

End of Night

 A.  Explain completely the process of “selection” as it happens to Eli, his father and the rest of the prisoners.  What are the specific steps?  Refer to specific details from the novel.

B.  Questions

1.       What reason does the narrator of Night give for Akiba Drumer being “selected” against?  Why does he become unable to work?

2.       What does he, Akiba Drumer, ask of his friends?

3.       For what reason does Eliezer have to go see a doctor?  What happens to him as a consequence of this?

4.       What does the Hungarian Jew explain to him?

5.       What is it like in the hospital?

6.       How long does Eliezer have to stay in the hospital?

7.       What ‘rumor’ starts to circulate “two days after” Eliezer’s operation?

8.       What fact does Hitler make “very clear”?

9.       Where will the inhabitants of the camp be moved to?  What will happen to the ‘invalids’?

10.    What major decision are Eli and his father faced with?

11.    What decision do they make and why?

12.    Give two reasons why Eli cannot sleep?

13.    How are people dressed for the evacuation?  What special item does Eli try to find for himself and his condition?

14.    What are the four prisoners ordered to do before they leave the camp? Why?

C.  Define the following words.

automatons                                                                           entity

parched                                                                                  famished

petrified                                                                 bewildered

stupefied                                                                                bereaved

privations                                                                              semblance

apathy                                                                                    vigilance

embarkation

4. Answer the following questions

1.       As the prisoners of the camp set out from Buna, they are not allowed to stop or slow down.  What is the consequence of a prisoner stopping?  What will happen to them?

2.       What does the narrator explain as the only thing that kept him from stopping or slowing down?

3.       Where do they stop at first?

4.       Why is Eliezer warned not to fall asleep?  What do Eliezer and his father do instead/ where do they end up?

5.       What or who is Rabbi Eliahou looking for?  What has happened?  What does Eli realize?

6.       What destination do they finally reach?

7.       Who does Eli find as they enter the new camp?  What is he worried about and what eventually happens to him?

8.       What new threat do Eli and his father face in the new camp?  

9.       How long do they stay at the new camp and what are they made to do?

10.    “On the third day, at dawn”, what happens?  What is the possible reason for this occurrence?

11.    Explain fully how Eli escapes being separated from his father?

12.    What do the prisoners do to quench their thirst?

E.  Write a short paragraph on the difference between Eli’s devotion to his father and Rabbi Eliahou’s son’s devotion.  Briefly comment on how this explains the stress put upon a son’s responsibility to his father.  Overall, answer the question of why Eliahou’s son would do such a thing?  Why are Eliahou’s son’s actions rational but still unacceptable?