Jesse Owens, the Olympics, and Adolf Hitler

Jesse Owens video

Please copy down the following definitions down (you can use the back of your worksheet even though it says Friday's notes)

Kaddish--prayer for the dead
Rosh Hashanah- is the autumnal festival celebrating the start of the Jewish New Year.
Yom Kippur-  is probably the most important holiday of the Jewish year. Many Jews who do not observe any other Jewish custom will refrain from work, fast and/or attend synagogue services on this day.
atonement-satisfaction or reparation for a wrong or injury; amends.

Today's reading begins on page 65, BUT,  the QUESTIONS BEGIN ON PAGE 63.

Today's Work: Please Copy today's Quick Write Topic at the top of a blank sheet of paper (32 points). We will read pages 62-67 first before we write.

Quick Write: After the first night in the concentration camp the narrator states:
"Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night...
Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever...
Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust." (32)
Explain how the author develops this central idea of "night" or "darkness" in Night from pages: 1-67
Here is the TREEE*S format if you need it:
T-thesis (the point you will prove--how has the camp changed him proving the quote above)
R-reason
E-Evidence/explain (connect your example to your thesis)
E-Evidence/explain (connect your example to your thesis)
E*-Evidence/explain (connect your example to your thesis)
S-Summarize

USE THE CHART WE COMPLETED FOR HELP!!

Elie Wiesel interview link

Homework #4--Elie Wiesel (20 pts)

Please copy the following questions to answer for homework tonight: (due Wednesday)
You need to use the back of the worksheet on background we completed previously. Please answer the questions using the RACE format and HIGHLIGHT or UNDERLINE the textual evidence you used in your answer.

1. Describe Elie Wiesel's early life.
2. Describe some of the difficulties he suffered during the war.
3. Describe Wiesel's life after he is freed from the camp.
4. What are some of his accomplishments?

Use the Background Worksheet to answer the following Questions

Directions:
1. Pre-read the questions.
2. Use the RACE strategy to answer all 10 questions
3. Highlight or underline the textual evidence you used to answer the question.

Questions: (NO NEED TO COPY THE QUESTIONS--JUST RESTATE)
1. What was the original purpose of Auschwitz?
2. Why was the IG Farbenin Company interested in locating itself near Auschwitz?
3. Describe Heinrich Himmler's vision.
4. Why did Hitler believe Eastern Europe must be conquered?
5.  Why did Hitler hate the Jews?
6. What is "euthanasia" and who was it used on?
7. Who was Adolf Eichmann?
8. What were "standing" and "starvation" cells?
9. How did the Allies find out about the crematoria?
10. What is the estimated number of deaths? Jews?

Please copy into your notebook: READ THE DIRECTIONS BELOW:

 Copy the following 4 sentences and decide if they are a: metaphor, simile, imagery, hyperbole, or personification. Then, briefly explain your answer (like our worksheet).
1. The shadows beside me awoke as from a long sleep.
figure of speech:
analysis:
2. They went by dragging their packs,...cringing like beaten dogs.
figure of speech:
analysis:
3. The stars were only sparks of the fire that devoured us.
figure of speech:
analysis:
4. I looked at my little sister, Tzipora, her blond hair neatly combed, her red coat over her arm: a little girl of seven. On her back a bag too heavy for her. 
figure of speech:
analysis:

Today we will:
Continue reading in Night...
Finish worksheet #2, side 1
Begin working on the chart on worksheet #2, side 2

Hw #3: Night-- 10 pts.

Elie talks about his first night in camp being a pivotal moment in his life--turning the rest of his life into one long night.
*Describe either: a pivotal moment in your life that changed it for the worse or better or "one long night."
Be sure to give details describing what happened and how it was significant.
(Should be at least 2 paragraphs long)