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Instructions: Write a paragraph that explains the significance of this image
and how it's related to the holocaust. The paragraph should include a topic sentence that grabs the readers attention and sets the mood for the intentional message of the paragraph. There should be three examples in the paragraph that include support for why this image is significant. The overall voice of the paragraph(s) should include descriptive, sophisticated language as well as an attempt at figurative language such as a simile, metaphor, or personification. The conclusion must include a wrap up of the paragraph that sums everything up as well as making a connection to a real life experience.





Outline

Topic sentence: You may be wondering what the holocaust was and what effects it had on people. Support 1: The holocaust was a very difficult time for the Jews due to the fact that Jews had to go to concentration camps where they would work hard and not get fed. If they couldn't work they would be killed. Sometimes they they would even have to see their own family die. Evidence 1: The picture above shows a Jewish person covering her hands to her mouth because she can't stand seeing so many dead people.

Support 2: People who were killed during the holocaust were cremated at some point because so many people were dying and they couldn't keep piling up the bodies. Evidence 2: The picture above shows a crematorium which was where people were burned during the holocaust.

Support 3: During the holocaust American soildiers would force German civilians to look at the Jews corpses as the soldiers cremated them. Evidence 3: The picture above shows German citizens gathering around as U.S. soldiers buried the Jews.

Conclusion: Clearly it has become very obvious to every one that the holocaust was a difficult time for everyone.

final draft: Have you ever experienced a brutal time where you felt that life was no longer worth living? Or how about cruelty, torture, and injustice. Have you ever felt that everything was hopeless? I can tell you that the Jews who lived during the holocaust have experienced all of those feelings and more. The Holocaust was a very difficult time for Jews due to the fact that the Nazi's sent Jews to concentration camps where they would work hard and not get fed. If they couldn't work they would be brutally slaughtered. Sometimes they would even have to see their own family die. Sometimes they would rather die already instead of living a long life of pain and suffering. Evidence to this claim may be shown on the picture above where it shows a Jewish person covering her hands to her mouth because she can't stand seeing so many dead people.It was like being repeatedly stabbed in the heart or being pushed off a cliff. You fall down and down living the awful experience of falling thousands of feet just awaiting your own death. It was exactly like that for the girl. She knew that her own death was coming soon. People who were killed during the Holocaust were cremated at some point because so many people were dying and they couldn't keep piling up the bodies. Evidence to this claim may be found in the picture above where it shows the exact crematorium that people were burned during the holocaust. At some point or another American soldiers found out what was going on and they thought they would teach the Germans a little lesson. So they took German civilians and brought them to the crematorium and made them watch the corpses as the American soldiers dropped the corpses into the crematorium. They would have to watch the entire process of the corpses burning. Evidence to this claim may be shown on the picture above where it shows German citizens gathering around as U.S. soldiers cremated the Jews. Clearly it has become obvious that the Holocaust was a very difficult time for everyone. With the Darfur incident going on it's as if the Holocaust is repeating itself.


 * PROMPT SECTION:** First, either answer the questions for the given pages or take notes on the prompts given to you. Respond to EACH question or prompt as completely as you can. That means that you will need to write several items in response to each question or prompt.


 * REACTION SECTION:** Next, write your reactions to the questions you answered or notes you took. In other words, after reading and responding to the prompt, write down how you feel. What emotions are stirred for you? You should write one reaction for each item you have written in the prompt section.

__pages 21 – 26__ **(due Monday 5/5)** Who is Madame Schachter? AND What happens to her?

Madame Schachter is a Jew who had completely lost it. She felt tortured by the idea of being taken from her family and was constantly found weeping in a corner. Usually she is found screaming in a corner saying " fire, fire!" Yet every time there was no fire there. People would strike her and hit her until once she screamed out that there was a fire and she was actually correct.

I think that it is ridiculous saying something that people would hit another person just because they didn't believe what the person said. They had no right to do so whether the person was right or not. To actually go out and release blows that could kill another person just seemed completely unacceptable. Not that Madame Schachter hadn't gone crazy but she definitely needed mental help.

__pages 27 – 44__ **(due Wednesday 5/7)** What are the specific acts, events and ideas that DESTROY faith? AND What are the specific acts, events and ideas that REKINDLE faith?

All of the people's possessions were taken away from them. Everything that they loved and cherished. Then the men and women were separated from each other.Then the SS told them that they were to be burned. More and more things occurred just to destroy their faith. Yet just seeing their friends with them. Out of all of the terrible things that happened they were still together. They still had each other to rely on for protection. Even if that person could do nothing to help.

I don't care what those stupid Germans thought of the Jews. They had no legal right at all to say and do what they did. I didn't even think a person could be that brutal. Before today I didn't believe in true evil. But apparently I was wrong. The fact that they didn't even care about separating families like that just makes my stomach turn. They've really gone to far this time.

NIGHT Reading Quiz, pages 20-44 Name _

1.What does Madame Schachter claim to see on the train?

fire

2.Who is traveling with Madame Schachter?

her son

3.Where do Elie and his family finally arrive?

At the Auschwitz concentration camp

4.Which members of his family does Eliezer stay with at Auschwitz?

his dad

5.What age does a fellow prisoner tell Eliezer to claim he is when asked?

18

6. Who is Dr. Mengele?

The guy who decides who lives and who dies

7. What does Elie manage to keep hidden from the kapos?

his new shoes, age, and occupation

8. What is A-7713?

The number Ellie was given in the concentration camp

__pages 45 – 62__ **(due Friday 5/9 for Coconuts, Monday 5/12 for Pineapples)** Acts of kindness AND Acts of brutality

There were many acts of kindness as well as acts of brutality. When Ellie first got there he was given bread and black coffee with very little work. For the most part the Jews were treated alright. At first they thought that that would do until the Russians arrived. Yet that was only there first impression. Unfortunately the concentration camp was run by a man named Idek. He was very power hungry and had an extremely short temper. So it came to no surprise for Ellie that he was whipped when he saw Idek having private affairs. He was used to the fact that Idek would be perfectly fine one moment and the next he would beat Ellie uncontrollably.

Being nice to people for a short time does not make it okay for someone to treat another harshly at all. Just because you're offered black coffee and some good bread and soup doesn't mean it's okay just to beat a person or make them do uncontrollable labor. Things like that is never okay. It doesn't make the trip to the concentration camp enjoyable at all.


 * NIGHT Reading Quiz, pages 45-62 Name _

1.What does the assistant to the head of the tent offer Elie for his new shoes? A good selection

2.Who is Idek? The leader of a concentration camp

3.Why is the camp dentist so interested in removing the crown from one of Elie's teeth? He was interested in getting the gold

4.Why does Idek whip Elie? He was watching him have affairs

5.At the end of this section, Elie remarks that his soup tasted like corpses. What had he just witnessed that led him to make this statement?** Because he saw all those Jews burned in the crematorium

__pages 63 – 80__ **(due Wednesday 5/14)** Germans' attempts to control things AND Jews' attempts to control things

The Germans had attempted to control things by making selections and deciding who would live and die. Although they said that the Jews would be fine they knew that the Jews knew they would all die eventually. Ellie described himself as more powerful than God. He promised that he would make a change and end the suffering where his God just sat there and allowed all the Jews to be killed. Yet the Jews continued to pray. Ellie did not understand why. He had lost faith ever since he entered the concentration camp awaiting his own death.

The Jews had the right to be angry at their God. Everything they said made complete sense. If there really was a God then why would he allow all of the suffering at that time. Why would he allow all of the suffering to take place today. I obviously knew right from the start that the Germans were lying completely when they said the Jews would be fine because they already weren't fine. Working like slaves with nothing in return is not alright. Neither is beating someone just because you're having a bad day. Or whipping someone because they saw something you didn't want them to see. None of those things were alright so the Germans were foolish to believe that telling the Jews that it would be alright when it was never alright to begin with.


 * NIGHT, READING QUIZ, pages 63-80

1. What two things does Elie’s father leave him as his inheritance? a knife

2. What happens to Akiba Drumer?

3. What ailment sends Elie to the hospital? his foot was injured

4. What do most patients believe will happen to them prior to evacuation? the camp will blow up

5. What do the color red and Elie have in common with the evacuation of Buna?**

__pages 81 – 109__ **(due Friday 5/16)** powerful quotations

"I was simply walking in my sleep. I managed to close my eyes and to run like that while asleep. Now and then someone would push me from behind, and I would wake up. The other would shout: " Run faster. If you don't want to go on, let other people come past." All I had to do was to close my eyes for a second to see a whole world passing by, to dream a whole lifetime."

" Pitch darkness. Every now and then, an explosion in the night. They had orders to fire on any who could not keep up. Their fingers on the triggers, they did not deprive themselves of this pleasure. If one of us stopped for a second, he sharp shot finished off another filthy son of a bitch."

" I had neither the will nor the strength to get up. Nevertheless I obeyed."