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Quiz Task- In your Google document, answer A and B (1-2)-from your reading homework last night.  This will be graded as a quiz.

When you are finished with the task above, look at the rest of the questions on this post and begin reading from 77-84 to answer these questions in your Google doc.

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?

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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?

Buna

Night-pages 45-56

English 10

Buyce

1.      What does Buna look like when they first arrive?  Explain fully.

2.      How is the leader of the camp described?

3.      Why exactly does the leader of the camp and other Nazi’s have an interest in the children that are brought in?

4.      What does one of the assistants ask of Eli for getting into a good unit?

5.      Who is Franek?

6.      Who is Juliek and what does he explain to Eli?

7.      What do they do at the warehouse?

8.      For what reason does the secretary of the block send for Eli?

9.      What is Eli’s #?

10.  How does Eli escape having his gold cap taken out?

11.  What eventually happens to the dentist?  Why?

12.  Why does Eli get into a fight with Idek? Who helps him afterward?

13.  What does Eli eventually find out about the French woman he works next to?  Explain fully.

14.  Why does Idek beat Eli’s father? Who is Eli mad at and why?

15.  What does Franec ask Eli for and how does he eventually get it? Explain fully.

16.  What does Eli discover in the warehouse one Sunday afternoon?

17.  What happens to Eli because of his discovery?

Paragraph- Overall, what do we learn about the leaders and administration of Buna and corruption.  Make a list of the many things that they are guilty, in addition to the general brutality of the camp, and write a paragraph about the character of these people.  Cite the text in MLA format.

Beginning Night

Night- pages 3-22

Vocabulary and Change Introduction

English 10

Mr. Buyce

Complete the definitions; answer questions and then write a paragraph on the transformation of our narrator’s life from your knowledge of the reading from homework.

  

A. Vocabulary

Timidity                                                                       Indulgently

Waiflike                                                                       Initiation

Mysticism                                                                    Emigration

Sentimental                                                                  Fascist

Abstraction                                                                  Truncheons

Anecdotes                                                                    Billeted

Optimism                                                                     Decree

Expounding                                                                 Edict

Phylacteries                                                    

B. Questions

1.      Explain the character of Moshe the Beadle, physically and his effect on other people.

2.      How old should one be to study “mysticism?”

3.      What are the names of the narrator’s siblings?

4.      Who ends up being the narrator’s master?

5.      Where is it that Moshe the Beadle tells Eliezer the true answers are?

6.      What is the narrator doing, generally, in the beginning of the novel?  Before all of the foreign Jews were expelled?

7.      Why are the foreign Jews expelled?

8.      What story does Moshe the Beadle tell to Eliezer about his escape?

9.      How does Moshe change from his experience?

10.  For what reasons does the narrator think that he and his people are safe?

11.  How are the German soldiers perceived, when they first arrive?

12.  What happens on the seventh day of Passover?

13.  What are the Jewish people required to wear after Passover?

14.  Where are they forced to live?

15.  What information does Stern, the police officer, tell Eliezer’s family?

16.   Who do they miss, who was knocking on the window?  Why is this crucial?

17.  Explain the overall scene at the closing of the reading.

C.  Paragraph- write a paragraph on the drastic change in our narrator’s life.

April 17

Period 3:  Research the Holocaust on the internet and in the Cengage Library- add this information to the Google doc that you started on April 14.  Also add your responses to the questions from  "Keep Memory Alive" to the same Google doc.

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Period 6:  Find information on the novel Night by Elie Wiesel.  Include this information in the last document that you ceated and were supposed to share with me.  Be sure that you paraphrase (in your own words) the information and document it correctly.  You must have at least a page and a half of paraphrased information.

There Will Come Soft Rains and the Modern Moment

Answer the questions (2-4: page 292) that follow "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury, in your textbook.  Write your responses to these questions in a new Google doc that you will title the name of this post.

Then, write at least one paragraph on how the concerns of this short story explain a concern in the modern moment.  Include these in the same Google doc.

After you have completed the questions and the paragraph, write your responses to passages A-F (written on loose leaf paper in an earlier class) about the central idea and literary element/ technique.  These responses must also be included in the Google doc.

This must all be completed by the end of the period and shared with me at that time.