Night Teaching Unit Book 10 Lesson Plans Plus 24 Student Handouts and Activities
Activities include character and theme analysis. Students use the Internet to research information about the Holocaust. They focus on Wiesel’s style and how he relates historical events to the text and interprets images. Students identify figures of speech and irony. They work to understand stereotypes and scapegoats.
Supplementary materials include a detailed study guide, an objective test, essay questions, and a list of culminating activities.
Literary Form
21st-Century Skills
- Collaboration
- Critical thinking
- Social and cross-cultural skills
- Leadership and responsibility
Overview
Night is a memoir by a Nobel-Prize winning author who survived Auschwitz during World War II, when he was a teenager. After his escape from a concentration camp and a ten-year silence, he decided to document the inescapable past. The result is his account of the inhumanity of the genocide faced by European Jews during World War II. He focuses on the destructive effects of prejudice and the capacity of human beings to perpetrate and survive atrocities. He stresses the importance of never forgetting the Holocaust.
Includes 10 lesson plans and 24 handouts.
Grades 9–12. High school. Reproducible. 69 pages.
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