M.,+Aryn

 *Aryn's Page*  // My B-Day is on Sunday! //

NIGHT Reading Quiz, pages 1-20 1.Who does Elie Choose as his teacher in studying cabbala? Moshe The Beadle

2.Which person is highly regarded in the Jewish community and pays more attention to outside matters than to family ones? Elie's Father is highly regarded in the community and seems to act like the leader

3.What term is used to describe the confined area where the Jews were forced to live? Ghetto

4.One day, Elie’s father is summoned to a meeting. What news does he bring back to his family? That they are going to have to be deported

5.When the Jews were forced to stand outside in the hot sun, what were they most desperate to have? WATER!!! Everyone waiting in the line were VERY thirsty especially the children.

6. Martha, a non-Jewish servant, makes an offer to Eliezer and his family. What was the offer and how did they reply? She wanted the family to escape and live in her village, but the family declined.

7. When Elie and his family finally leave, what are they placed into for the trip?  They are put in a cattle car with lots of other people and only loaves of Bread and Buckets of Water.

 4/30/08 Picture Paragraph(s)  If you knew that you would die at any second today, would you be scared, or would you be grateful that the torture you’ve endured for years is finally ending? From 1939-1945 it was a daily activity for hundreds or even thousands of people to die. They may have been you’re neighbor, you’re friend, or someone in you’re family, and you’d have to stand and watch them die or else you could be joining them. This time period was known as the holocaust. The holocaust was a gruesome time for every one of the Jewish and other faiths in Europe that were different from the Aryans. Over 11 million people as a total died when it ended. People were killed in all ways just because of their religion, and often others would watch them die. Some may have been forced to stand in the middle of a snow covered field with the frigid cold brushing their bare arms and the icy eyes of soldiers focused in on them, knowing any minute that they would be executed. Others would be forced to wait naked for hours in line to go take a “shower”, knowing that the blood curdling screams that seeped into the concrete walls could not be caused by any water. What is even more horrible is that pictures were captured of these accounts that can still be viewed today. When I look at the pictures of these people who were treated in a way that you can’t even imagine today, it makes me want to cry. To have that amount of hate for somebody just because they are different is almost unimaginable. Looking at the victims’ faces that are full of confusion, fear, and sadness; brings the same emotions to me. These pictures remind me of what is going on now in the Darfur region of Sudan. Although unlike the holocaust this conflict is ethnic and tribal not religious. No matter what the differences, the result is still the same; innocent people dying for petty reasons, and nothing in the world is worse than that.
 * Aryn M.**

//A Woman About to Be Executed// and //Men waiting to go into the gas chambers//


 * 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 1-20__ **(due Friday 5/2)** What are the signs of trouble? AND How do the Jews of Sighet react?