25 March 2010

Chapter 1, Night

Discuss how you felt at the end of Chapter 1. What feelings were you left with as the chapter came to a close?

And think about all we do to support other areas of the world after a natural disaster occurs... we intervene...quickly... but as Elie and his family were loaded onto those cattle cars at the end of Chapter 1, no one came to offer them relief....

21 March 2010

Why study the Holocaust?

Let's ask Elie Wiesel?


An Introduction to NIGHT

As we prepare to read Elie Wiesel's NIGHT, it is important to find out what you already know, believe, and feel about the Holocaust.

First watch this photo story and look at each picture without writing anything in your journals. Then you will write your own personal perspective about the Holocaust-- it can factual, it can be your personal beliefs, it can be based on things you have learned in other classes, or it can be the things that come to your mind/heart as you see each of these pictures.

Then you will share this journal entry with the person sitting next to you; and finally volunteers will share their journal entry with the whole class.

04 March 2010

A Reflection of Dead Poets Society

We began with this quote, and now we will end with it…

“No poet, no artist of any art, has complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation, is the appreciation of this relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.” ~TS Eliot

What is TS Eliot saying?