Hope this helps my fellow Night teachers out there!
My honors class has just finished reading night, and we are moving on to a literature unit focusing on novel dealing with genocide. In order to get my students ready to see the similarities most genocides have in common, I wanted them to reference something they already knew a lot about; the Holocaust. I used this worksheet to introduce my students to the 8 stages of genocide, and had them provide examples from Night and our other Holocaust readings to get them to synthesize the information. ( Blooms word! extra credit point for me!) Here is the worksheet I used. I found the information online and take no credit for the work done defining the 8 stages.
Hope this helps my fellow Night teachers out there!
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Here is a look at the powerpoint I create for my honors students to view before we start reading the novel "Night". I wanted to give them some prior knowledge to refer to as they read the novel, and as they read about all of the camps that the author is taken to. It's often confusing to visualize the story since it changes settings again and again. I'm hoping viewing these pictures before and during reading will help my students really get a good feel and a deeper understanding of what exactly the author is going through. Especially since my students have not had a very good WWII and Holocaust education. I found all of these images online and take no credit for them.
I'm about to start teaching one of the novels that had a big impact on me when I first read it in high school. Night, a holocaust survivor's story, is a book that I think is a must read for all high school students. I want this book to mean something to my students. One way to get them to connect with it is to ease some of the confusion that will come with figuring out where it is set, where the narrator travels, and where he ends up. I found this AMAZING interactive map that gives readers a great visual of the forced journey the author makes, and just how far from home he ends up. You can find it here. More posts to come on teaching this novel! |
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