I want to really give this project some thought. Look over the following assignments and decide which one you want to invest soem time in. It needs to be a complete projust, not just soemthing you threw together the night before it was do. Make Elie Weisel proud!
1.You will create a collage that represents what you have learned about the Holocaust. This collage could be (and should be) an assortment of hand-drawn pictures, photographs taken from the Internet, lines from text we have read, quotes, objects, etc. Be creative, but most importantly you need to reflect in your collage what you have learned.
2.Directions: You will be determining who was responsible for creating the Holocaust and to what extent they are guilty of crimes against humanity. Create a circle graph in which you assign the person(s) listed the percentage of responsibility you believe they should bear for the Holocaust. Remember, all percentages must add up to 100%.
Use the colors listed for each section of your graph. After you have made the designations of responsibility for each person(s), you must also provide a written explanation as to why you assigned that amount. (Don’t give me responses such as, "That’s just the way it adds up to 100%. This will not earn you credit.)
RED: Residents of Auschwitz and other towns near concentration camps who knew about the camps but did nothing to stop them.
BLUE: Minor Nazi soldiers who carried out the mass extermination orders without questioning their superiors.
GREEN: Hitler, the leader of the German nation who hated Jews and wanted them destroyed.
YELLOW: German citizens who voted for Hitler and the Nazi Party to revitalize their morally and economically depressed country.
ORANGE: The Jews who did not try to escape.
PURPLE: Top SS officers who designed and executed
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Time to talk
Please pick 8 of the following questions and write one paragraph answers for each. If you have any questions or problems, please let me know.
1. Who was Moshe the Beadle?
2. Why did Eliezer spend a lot of time with Moshe?
3. What happened to Moshe that caused a great change in him?
4. How did the rest of the community react to what Moshe told them?
5. What were the ghettos?
6. At first, how did the Jews of Sighet feel about the ghettos?
7. Who offered Eliezer’s family safe refuge?
8. On what day of the week was Eliezer’s family expelled?
9. Why did the Hungarian lieutenant move among the prisoners with a basket?
10.Who was Madame Schachter?
11.Who were the SS men?
12.What was Eliezer’s last view of his mother and sister?
13.Why did Eliezer and his father lie to Dr. Mengele?
14.Why did his father wish Eliezer had gone with his mother?
15.What was actually happening to the women?
16.What is the Kaddish?
17.According to the SS officer, what was the only way to avoid the furnaces?
18.Why did the gypsy strike Eliezer’s father?
19.To what new camp were the prisoners marched?
1. Who was Moshe the Beadle?
2. Why did Eliezer spend a lot of time with Moshe?
3. What happened to Moshe that caused a great change in him?
4. How did the rest of the community react to what Moshe told them?
5. What were the ghettos?
6. At first, how did the Jews of Sighet feel about the ghettos?
7. Who offered Eliezer’s family safe refuge?
8. On what day of the week was Eliezer’s family expelled?
9. Why did the Hungarian lieutenant move among the prisoners with a basket?
10.Who was Madame Schachter?
11.Who were the SS men?
12.What was Eliezer’s last view of his mother and sister?
13.Why did Eliezer and his father lie to Dr. Mengele?
14.Why did his father wish Eliezer had gone with his mother?
15.What was actually happening to the women?
16.What is the Kaddish?
17.According to the SS officer, what was the only way to avoid the furnaces?
18.Why did the gypsy strike Eliezer’s father?
19.To what new camp were the prisoners marched?
Your book vocabulary
Just a little author background
Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania, which is now part of Romania. He was fifteen years old when he and his family were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz. His mother and younger sister perished, his two older sisters survived. Elie and his father were later transported to Buchenwald, where his father died shortly before the camp was liberated in April 1945.
After the war, Elie Wiesel studied in Paris and later became a journalist. During an interview with the distinguished French writer, Francois Mauriac, he was persuaded to write about his experiences in the death camps. The result was his internationally acclaimed memoir, La Nuit or Night, which has since been translated into more than thirty languages.
In 1978, President Jimmy Carter appointed Elie Wiesel as Chairman of the President's Commission on the Holocaust. In 1980, he became the Founding Chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. He is also the Founding President of the Paris-based Universal Academy of Cultures and the Chairman of The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, an organization he and his wife created to fight indifference, intolerance and injustice. Elie Wiesel has received more than 100 honorary degrees from institutions of higher learning.A devoted supporter of Israel, Elie Wiesel has also defended the cause of Soviet Jews, Nicaragua's Miskito Indians, Argentina's Desaparecidos, Cambodian refugees, the Kurds, victims of famine and genocide in Africa, of apartheid in South Africa, and victims of war in the former Yugoslavia.
For more than ten years, Elie and his wife Marion have been especially devoted to the cause of Ethiopian-born Israeli youth through the Foundation's Beit Tzipora Centers for Study and Enrichment.
Teaching has always been central to Elie Wiesel's work. Since 1976, he has been the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, where he also holds the title of University Professor. He is a member of the Faculty in the Department of Religion as well as the Department of Philosophy. Previously, he served as Distinguished Professor of Judaic Studies at the City University of New York (1972-76) and the first Henry Luce Visiting Scholar in Humanities and Social Thought at Yale University (1982-83).
Elie Wiesel is the author of more than forty books of fiction and non-fiction, including A Beggar in Jerusalem (Prix Médicis winner), The Testament (Prix Livre Inter winner), The Fifth Son (winner of the Grand Prize in Literature from the City of Paris), and two volumes of his memoirs.For his literary and human rights activities, he has received numerous awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal and the Medal of Liberty Award, and the rank of Grand-Croix in the French Legion of Honor. In 1986, Elie Wiesel won the Nobel Prize for Peace, and soon after, Marion and Elie Wiesel established The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity.
An American citizen since 1963, Elie Wiesel lives with his wife in Connecticut.
The floowing link provides a glimpe into Elie Weisel today: Washington Post
After the war, Elie Wiesel studied in Paris and later became a journalist. During an interview with the distinguished French writer, Francois Mauriac, he was persuaded to write about his experiences in the death camps. The result was his internationally acclaimed memoir, La Nuit or Night, which has since been translated into more than thirty languages.
In 1978, President Jimmy Carter appointed Elie Wiesel as Chairman of the President's Commission on the Holocaust. In 1980, he became the Founding Chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. He is also the Founding President of the Paris-based Universal Academy of Cultures and the Chairman of The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, an organization he and his wife created to fight indifference, intolerance and injustice. Elie Wiesel has received more than 100 honorary degrees from institutions of higher learning.A devoted supporter of Israel, Elie Wiesel has also defended the cause of Soviet Jews, Nicaragua's Miskito Indians, Argentina's Desaparecidos, Cambodian refugees, the Kurds, victims of famine and genocide in Africa, of apartheid in South Africa, and victims of war in the former Yugoslavia.
For more than ten years, Elie and his wife Marion have been especially devoted to the cause of Ethiopian-born Israeli youth through the Foundation's Beit Tzipora Centers for Study and Enrichment.
Teaching has always been central to Elie Wiesel's work. Since 1976, he has been the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, where he also holds the title of University Professor. He is a member of the Faculty in the Department of Religion as well as the Department of Philosophy. Previously, he served as Distinguished Professor of Judaic Studies at the City University of New York (1972-76) and the first Henry Luce Visiting Scholar in Humanities and Social Thought at Yale University (1982-83).
Elie Wiesel is the author of more than forty books of fiction and non-fiction, including A Beggar in Jerusalem (Prix Médicis winner), The Testament (Prix Livre Inter winner), The Fifth Son (winner of the Grand Prize in Literature from the City of Paris), and two volumes of his memoirs.For his literary and human rights activities, he has received numerous awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal and the Medal of Liberty Award, and the rank of Grand-Croix in the French Legion of Honor. In 1986, Elie Wiesel won the Nobel Prize for Peace, and soon after, Marion and Elie Wiesel established The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity.
An American citizen since 1963, Elie Wiesel lives with his wife in Connecticut.
The floowing link provides a glimpe into Elie Weisel today: Washington Post
Welcome to the first class novel!
Welcome to a new school year! I want to introduce you to the first novel we will be ready this school year. The book is Night by Elie Wiesel. This novel is set in various concentration camps throughout Germany, during World War II. During this time, Hitler formed many concentration camps throughout Germany and Poland. In these camps the people imprisoned, mainly of Jewish or Gypsy descent, were tortured, starved, put through horrific conditions, killed, and worked to death. In upcoming posts, you will be introduced to the author, given a list of your vocabulary words, and provided with discussion questions to respond to. I will also provide information on your book project which will be due one week after the completion of the book.
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