Distance Learning Fall 2020:

Welcome! Please find the content for our class by using the links below:

• Period 1 Teams page

• Period 2 Teams page

• Period 3 Teams page

• Period 4 Teams page

Distance Learning Spring 2020:

Finals Week: June 1-4

• Assignments:

  1. Research Project is due by noon on Thursday, June 4! See last week for details.

  2. Please complete this end-of-year class reflection.

• Notes:

  1. If you are taking AP English Language & Composition next year, here are the directions for the summer work. The assignments for other AP classes can be found here.

Week of May 25-29

• Watch:

  1. Wednesday: Explanation of Wednesday's writing prompt.

• Assignments:

  1. Tuesday: Read the article "Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps" on CommonLit, and answer the guiding and assessment questions. Due Wednesday.

  2. Wednesday: Respond to the end of book writing prompt here. If you would prefer to hand write your response or type it in Google Docs, that's fine as well! Here's an example response. Due Friday.

  3. Friday: For your final exam, you will choose one of two research projects and create a presentation (Google Slides, Prezi, video, etc.) that includes your research. The two choices are: 1) research a genocide other than the Holocaust, or 2) research the life of a Holocaust victim or survivor other than Elie Wiesel. Your researched presentation and your Works Cited page will be due on Thursday, June 4 at 12:00pm. Please see all the information and resources you will need below.

     1. • Genocide Research Project

          1. Project Requirements

          2. Research Notes (recommended)

          3. Suggested sources: Genocide Watch, United Nations, & History.com

          4. Ten Stages of Genocide article

          5. MLA Works Cited page notes and easybib.com

        • Holocaust Victim/Survivor Research Project

          1. Project Requirements

          2. Research Notes (recommended)

          3. Suggested sources: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Database of Holocaust Victims, & Holocaust Memorial Center

          4. MLA Works Cited page notes and easybib.com

• Notes:

  1. Friday, May 22 and Monday, May 25 are district holidays, so I will not be posting any new assignments on those days.

Week of May 18-22

• Watch:

  1. Monday: Chapter 6 important quotes and concepts

  2. Tuesday: Chapter 7 important quotes and concepts

  3. Wednesday: Chapter 8 important quotes and concepts

  4. Thursday: Chapter 9 important quotes and concepts

• Assignments:

  1. Monday: Read Night Chapter 6, part 2 (pages 49-52; finish the chapter). Complete one dialectical journal entry. Here's a template for the rest of the book, Chapters 6-9. You will turn in these journals after we finish the book.

  2. Tuesday: Read Night Chapter 7 (the whole thing; it's 3 pages). Complete one dialectical journal entry. Here's a template for the rest of the book, Chapters 6-9. You will turn in these journals after we finish the book.

  3. Wednesday: Read Night Chapter 8 (the whole thing; it's about 5 pages). Complete one dialectical journal entry. Here's a template for the rest of the book, Chapters 6-9. You will turn in these journals after we finish the book.

  4. Thursday: Read Night Chapter 9 (the whole thing; it's less than two pages), which is the last chapter! Complete one dialectical journal entry. Here's a template for Chapters 6-9. The entries for Chapters 6-9 are due Tuesday!

• Notes:

  1. Friday, May 22 and Monday, May 25 are district holidays, so I will not be posting any new assignments on those days.

  2. Here's a map that you can reference to see where Eliezer is forced to go throughout the book.

  3. Here's a teacher-read audiobook for Chapter 6.

  4. Here's a teacher-read audiobook for Chapter 7.

  5. Here's a teacher-read audiobook for Chapter 8.

  6. Here's a teacher-read audiobook for Chapter 9.

Week of May 11-15

• Watch:

  1. Wednesday: Chapter 5 important quotes and concepts. (If the video isn't playing on YouTube, try watching it here.)

• Assignments:

  1. Monday: Read Night Chapter 5, part 1 (pages 37-40; stop at the break at the top of page 40 before it says "The SS officers went away"). Complete one dialectical journal entry. (Remember, we will turn in the entries for Chapters 4 & 5 once we finish reading Chapter 5.)

  2. Tuesday: Read Night Chapter 5, part 2 (pages 40-43; stop at the break at the top of page 43 before it says "The doctor came to tell me..."). Complete one dialectical journal entry.

  3. Wednesday: Read Night Chapter 5, part 3 (pages 43-46; finish the chapter). Complete one dialectical journal entry. The five entries for Chapters 4 & 5 are due tomorrow. Here's the template again if you'd like to use it.

  4. Thursday: Read the article "Death Marches in the Holocaust" on CommonLit, and answer the guiding and assessment questions. Due tomorrow.

  5. Friday: Read Night Chapter 6, part 1 (pages 47-49; stop before it says, " The door of the shed opened."). Complete one dialectical journal entry. Here's a template for the rest of the book, Chapters 6-9. You will turn in these journals after we finish the book in a week or so.

• Notes:

  1. Here's a teacher-read audiobook for Chapter 5.

  2. Here's a short video saying the Mourner's Kaddish, the mourning prayer in Judaism which was mentioned in Chapter 5.

  3. Here's a map that you can reference to see where Eliezer is forced to go throughout the book.

  4. Here's a teacher-read audiobook for Chapter 6.

Week of May 4-8

• Watch

  1. Monday: Chapter 3 overview, including important quotes and concepts.

  2. Tuesday: Blackout poem: explanation and example.

  3. Thursday: Chapter 4 overview, including important quotes and concepts.

• Assignments:

  1. Monday: Finish reading Night Chapter 3 (page 24-end) and complete a dialectical journal entry. You should now have one entry for Chapter 2 and three entries for Chapter 3; please turn these in via email by tomorrow.

  2. Tuesday: Create a blackout poem on this passage from Chapter 3. Here's an example. You can be creative and add images/drawings if you'd like! Due tomorrow.

  3. Wednesday: Read Night Chapter 4, part 1 (pages 27-31; stop in the middle of page 31 before it says, "A few days..."). Complete one dialectical journal entry. Here's a template for Chapters 4 & 5; you will turn these in together when we finish reading Chapter 5.

  4. Thursday: Read Night Chapter 4, part 2 (page 31-35; finish the chapter). Then, complete one dialectical journal entry.

  5. Friday: Respond to the writing prompt in this Google Form. Your question is: in your opinion, what is the most tragic event that has taken place in the book so far? This is due Monday. Below are some ideas you can write about, but you have to fully explain what happened and why it was tragic in your own words:

     1. • Eliezer being separated from his mothers and sisters at Birkenau

        • Eliezer thinking he was going to the crematory and contemplating suicide

        • the old man killing himself in the cauldron of soup while Buna was being bombed

        • Eliezer and his father receiving beatings and a whipping from Idek, their Kapo

        • the hanging of the young boy at the end of Chapter 4

• Notes:

  1. Here's another teacher-read audio for Chapter 4.

  2. Here's a map that you can reference to see where Eliezer is forced to go throughout the book.

Week of April 27-May 1

• Watch:

  1. Monday: Explanation of the Ten Stages of Genocide

  2. Tuesday: Important Quotes in Chapter 2 and Map Explanation

• Assignments:

  1. Monday: Read the article The Ten Stages of Genocide, which is from the work of a historian who studies genocides. In the video above, I briefly explain each stage, but you should still read the article independently. Then, respond this Google Form; you will be matching the stages that have already occurred in Night with quotes/descriptions from chapter 1. Due tomorrow.

  2. Tuesday: Read Night Chapter 2; you'll be reading the whole chapter today (it's only 4 pages) and completing one dialectical journal entry. We will be turning in the journal entries for chapter 2 and 3 together, so there's no need to send me your work today. You may use this template to complete the journals, write them out, or type them on your own. In the video above (I will post it this afternoon), I discuss a couple important quotes from chapter 2 that you may choose for your journal if you want, and I go over the map (linked below).

  3. Wednesday: Read the article "Auschwitz" on CommonLit, and answer both the guiding and assessment questions. It's only six paragraphs, and it'll give you some good historical information that will help you understand the place where Eliezer and the others arrived at the end of Chapter 2. (If you need directions for getting on CommonLit or the tutorial video, scroll down to the week of April 13-17.) Due Thursday. t

  4. Thursday: Read the first four-ish pages of Night Chapter 3. Stop about halfway down page 20, after the passage that ends with the word "never." Then, complete one dialectical journal entry. (See the requirements here.) Again, we will not turn in the entries for Chapters 2 & 3 until we finish chapter 3. Remember, if you have any questions on the reading, you can either ask me, or research the answer for a journal entry! (Note: the end of chapter three was a little messed up, so I had to substitute in the last couple pages from a different edition of the book, so the page numbers are a bit off at the end.)

  5. Friday: Read the next four-ish pages of Night Chapter 3 (until the end of page 23). Complete one dialectical journal entry.

• Notes:

  1. If you prefer to read by listening to the audiobook, here's one done by another teacher for Ch. 2. Here's another teacher audiobook for Ch.3. If you want to listen to the full, professional audiobook, I would recommend starting a free trial on one of these two websites: Audible or Scribd.

  2. Here's a map that you can reference to see where Eliezer is forced to go throughout the book.

Week of April 20-24

• Watch:

  1. Monday: Video from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: "Justice and Accountability after the Holocaust"*

2. Tuesday: Night Chapter 1, part 1

3. Wednesday: Night Chapter 1, part 2

4. Thursday: Night Chapter 1, part 3

5. Friday: Dialectical journals: explanation of requirements and example

• Assignments:

  1. Monday: Make sure to go over the vocabulary words, especially the historical context terms. Then, watch the video above on justice and accountability after the Holocaust. Finally, respond to this Google Form with your thoughts on whether or not justice is possible after a genocide. Due tomorrow.

  2. Tuesday: Read Night Chapter 1, part 1 (pages 1-5; stop at the break at the top). Complete the Chapter 1, Part 1 Questions. You can read independently, or follow along with my video above. Due tomorrow.

  3. Wednesday: Read Night Chapter 1, part 2 (pages 5-9; stop about halfway down). Complete the Chapter 1, Part 2 Questions. You can read independently, or follow along with my video above. Due tomorrow.

  4. Thursday: Read Night Chapter 1, part 3 (pages 9-12; finish the chapter). Complete the Chapter 1, Part 3 Questions. You can read independently, or follow along with my video above. Due tomorrow.

  5. Friday: Complete one dialectical journal entry for Chapter 1. Watch the video above for the full explanation. Here are the requirements and an example. Due Monday.

• Notes:

  1. We will be beginning to read the book on Tuesday, April 21, so please try to catch up on the past week's pre-reading assignments if you fell behind!

Week of April 13-17

• Watch:

  1. Wednesday: KWL on the Holocaust/World War II and pre-reading notes for Night.

  2. Thursday: Explanation of today's assignment, which is to read and answer the questions on the article "Introduction to the Holocaust," and a brief CommonLit tutorial.

• Assignments:

  1. Tuesday: Complete this survey.

  2. Wednesday: Go over pre-reading notes (page 1 & page 2). Complete your KWL (either on paper or digitally) and send it to me; you must have at least 3 bullet points in each column. Due Thursday. You can also review the vocabulary terms here.

  3. Thursday: Read "Introduction to the Holocaust" on commonlit.org. Once you log in, the assignment should be waiting for you. As you read, answer the guiding questions, and after reading, answer the assessment questions. Due Friday. Most of you already have accounts set up on CommonLit from first semester, so please try to log in and contact me if are having trouble. I can tell you your username and/or reset your password if needed. If you are sure that you do not already have an account, please use the codes below to create your account and join the class:

     • Period 0 code: 7Q48RL

     • Period 2 code: JVDN67

     • Period 5 code: 5E8L49

  4. Friday: Read the article "Elie Wiesel" on CommonLit, and answer both the guiding questions and assessment questions. Once you log in, the assignment should be waiting for you. This article will give you some information about the author of Night who will be telling us his true story of surviving the Holocaust. See Thursday's video for a CommonLit tutorial. Due Monday.

• Notes:

  1. If you have not yet picked your classes for next year, contact your counselor, Ms. Sanchez! Her email is MarloSanchez@antiochschools.net.

  2. Friday, April 10 and Monday, April 13 are school holidays. You can still contact me and I will respond, but there will be no official assignments those days.

  3. All Quarter 3 assignments are due by 11:59pm on Tuesday, April 14.

Week of April 6-10

• Watch:

  1. Tuesday: Review of Of Mice and Men essay/poster assignment

• Assignments:

  1. Complete your Of Mice and Men essay or poster, and submit it to me via email by Tuesday, April 14.

  2. Complete any missing work for Quarter 3, and submit it to me via email by Tuesday, April 14.

• Notes:

  1. Friday, April 10 and Monday, April 13 are school holidays. You can still contact me and I will respond, but there will be no official assignments those days.