Thursday, March 22, 2012

Hw #6 Night-- 30 pts. Please copy on a sheet of paper to hand in at the end of class today

On page 83, Elie Wiesel states, "We were masters of nature, masters of the world".
*What does he mean by this (in your own words)?
*Give at least 3 specific textual examples from today's reading that show that he no longer cares about anything at all except survival
*Explain how they show that this quote is true.

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Pg. 69-71 assignment

What is the bell symbolic of during selection? Choose a specific textual example from today's reading and use in it your answer. What does the bell do to the speed in which you feel the events are moving? What is the purpose of this? How else does the author produce this effect?--- 20 pts.

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Hw #5 Night --15 pts.

What does it mean to feel hopeless? How do you think hopelessness affects people's lives--why?
*Describe a time when you or a friend/family member felt hopeless.
*What circumstances caused this feeling?
*How did you or your friend respond to the situation?

Vocabulary Practice--Night---I will collect this in 5 minutes so get to work!!

Copy each sentence down and fill in the blank with the correct vocabulary word:
1. The king issued an ____that all men would need to join the army.
2. My mother said she had a ___________ that something bad would happen to me.
3. The Holocaust survivor looked ___________ and all his bones were showing.
4. The vikings would take over a village and _________ the people.
5. The next movie in my Netflix ________ was set to arrive on Monday.
edict, pillage, premonition, emaciated, queue

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Hw#4 Night-- 10 pts.

One of the most tragic themes in Night is Eliezer’s discovery of the way that atrocities and cruel treatment can make good people into brutes.
*Do you think this is true--that "good" people can be made into "bad" people through life circumstances or because they are treated badly by others? Explain your answer.
*Has he seemed to escape this fate so far?

Monday, March 5, 2012

Homework: 10 vocabulary sentences--20 pts.

Please use the definitions of the 10 following vocabulary words (in your packet), to write 10 vocabulary sentences that correctly show the meaning of each word.

p. 12
edict, pillage, premonition
p. 16
emaciated
queue

p. 20
contagion
indeterminate
rivet
semblance
vigilance