Quotes

Religion
pg 76 its over. God is no longer with us.
pg 77 in 3 days, I will be gone. Say Kaddish for me.
pg 112 No prayers were said over his tomb.
Pg 91 A prayer formed inside to a God in whom I no longer believed.
pg 77 He opened the door to death. Akiba Drumer.

Silence
pg 89 Death which was settling in all around us, silently.
pg 95 Never had I heard such a beautiful sound in silence.
pg 104 I myself was so weary hat his silence left him indifferent.
pg 111 All around me, there was silence now, broken only by moaning.

Inhumanity
pg 70 All night we slept almost naked and the temp was almost -30
pg 99 Outside ss walked around shouting, to throw out all the dead, outside all the corpses.
pg 77 We received more blows than food.
pg 89 I was walking through the cemetery among stiffen corpses.
pg 85 Faster you filthy dogs.

Father Son Relationship
pg 86 My father's presence was the only thing that stopped me... what would he do without me?
pg 113 Since my father's death nothing mattered to me anymore.
pg 70 My father, I just thought of him now. How would he pass the selection.
pg 111 My father groaned once more. I heard Eliezer.
pg 106 Father, I have been looking for you for so long. How are you feeling?
pg 112...Searching my feeble conscious, I might have found something like free at last.
pg 82 I made up my mind. I would accompany my father wherever we went.
pg 104 Father, Father...get up right now.
pg 89 Don't worry son go to sleep I'll watch over you.

Class List of Themes

• No matter how hard life gets, just get going.
• The human race is capable of horrors beyond belief.
• Live your to the fullest, because you never know what might happen next.
• Humans are capable of inhuman acts.
• Many possessions can be removed from us but relationships are lasting.
• Don't judge people on their religion or where they come from, because it only leads to bad things.
• Even if you don't like someone still respect them.
• We can learn from historical events such as the Holocaust.
• Value the simple things in life.
• You never know how strong we are, until we are put into a situation where we have to be strong.
• The human body can only take so much stress.
• Never complain about your life someone else has it worse than you.  
• Through rough times you rely on relationships to get you through.
• Life is short cherish it.
• Anything is possible.
• Keep your faith and hold strong even when it seems impossible.
• Those that only to the past and present are certain to miss the future.
• Never give up on life.

Themes

#1  What is one things you have learned after reading this novel? What messages has Elie communicated to you?

One thing that I learned reading this book is how the Holocaust removed the will to live of so many people. As well as their souls. 

" from the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me."
"The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me."

#2  If Elie were to give advice to the St. Thomas More community on how to live your life today, what do you think he would say? 

I believe that Elie would tell us that we should never forget this. We must never forget what the Germans did and what the Jews had to go through. He would tell us not to hate, it is alright to dislike but never alright to hate. Hate leads to aweful things, things that we all regret. 

WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

1. The man should be killed because if he wants to die anyways. Why kill the 400 people that could be saved and maybe even liberated one day. The man will die no matter what, just save some people.

2.  No, because the mother will not wish to live anymore because of the death of her baby. The deaths will happen anyways at least let the mother die with her son or daughter.

3. Yes, the father should escape as quickly as possible and then return with help and then liberate the camp saving his son.

Chapter 3

The Nazi dehumanized the Jews by making them stand naked, shaving all of their hair, the put them in cattle cars to transport them. There were no bathroom. They were branded as if the were cattle. They were jammed into small living conditions, like chickens in a coop. They were forced to do tough manual labor, and were killed if they refused.

CLASS CONCENTRATION CAMP:

• Smelled like death
• Crossroads in the center of the camp-selection process
• Dr. Mengele
• SS officers every few yards
• Babies were being burned in a ditch
• Second barracks were 2 stories of cement 
• Sign "Work Makes You Free"
• Smoke coming from the crematoriums

NIGHT = DARKNESS BLANKETED HIS LIFE 

CLASS LIST OF DEHUMANIZATION

• Forced to remove clothing
• Beaten
• Brand the number on their arms
• Transfered in cattle cars 
• Stuffed in barracks
• Shaving heads 
• Taking valuables 
• Unfitting clothing
• Little to no food

STEIN OF ANTWERP

• Elie lies to Stein to give him the will to live because his family knows he is alive.
• Stein disappeared after he was given the real news.

Fire/Flame

The woman who sees flames and smoke is a huge foreshadowing hint that the Jews will be killed. The fire symbolizes the ovens that the dead will be cremated in. As well as all the Jewish people that have already been killed. Her name is Mrs. Schacter.

CLASS LIST

MRS. SCHACTER

• Mrs. Schacter reveals the madness of the incident.
• Foreshadowing the future.
• Hate breeds even more hate.

THE FIRE

• Ovens and the cremation of Jews. 
• Death.
• Burning of religion.
• Burning of culture and memories. 
• Hate.
• Hellish circumstances.
• Chaos.
• Friction that causes conflicts.

Foreshadowing in Night

Foreshadowing

1. He cries when he prays.
2. The tailor who begged to die before his sons did.
3. The anti-semantic acts take place so often.
4. Moishe tells about the digging of graves.

CLASS LIST OF FORESHADOWING.

1. Foreign Jews were removed from Sighet.
2. Dirty smoke when leaving the train station.
3. Wearing the star of David.
4. Moishe the Beadle tells of the killing of Jews, and the digging of own graves.
5. "what do you expect that's war."
6. Ghetto where Jews were enclosed.
7. Transported into cattle cars. 

Holocost Questions

1. Provide a brief description of the Holocaust (What was it, why did it happen, where it occurred etc.)

The holocost was the sence less killing of over 6 million Jews and 5 million other Europeans under the command of Adolf Hilter. This took place is concentartion camps all over polland during World War II. This took place because of enormous emounts of racism. Hilter wanted evryone to have blonde hair and blue eyes, if you did not you were to be killed.

2. Explain the “final solution plan.”

The final solution plan was the term that Germans used as the plan for the extermination of the remaining Jewish people. This plan took placein many stages. These were small to start, with such things as discrmination and escalated until the extermination of the Jews was common to Germans.
2,700,000 Jews were killed during the "final solution plan" at the death camps.

3. Explain what a “ghetto” was during the Holocaust.'

During the Holocaust, ghettos were a big  step in the Nazi process of control, the enslavement , and mass murder of the Jews. A ghetto was a small town with terriblwliving conditions which the Nazis used to seperate the Jews from the rest of the population.

4. Describe the living conditions of life in a ghetto.

The living conditions that the Jewish people were forced to live in were aweful. Disease spread quickly because of the large number of people who were crammed into such little space. These people were also given little to no food, medacine, clothes, or contact with the out side world.

5. Explain what a concentration camp was during the holocaust.

During the Holocost the concentration camp was the place where jews were forced to work or be killed.

6. Explain the three reasons in which Auschwitz was created.
Auschwitz was constructed to serve three purposes to incarcerate real and perceived enemies of the Nazi regime and the German occupation authorities in Poland for an indefinite period of time. To have available a supply of forced laborers for deployment in SS-owned, construction-related enterprises and to serve as a site to physically eliminate small, targeted groups of the population whose death was determined by the SS and police authorities to be essential to the security of Nazi Germany.

7. State the statistics explaining how many people were sent to Auschwitz and how many were executed there.

1.1 million Jews were deported to Auschwitz. SS and police authorities deported approximately 200,000 other victims to Auschwitz, including 140,000-150,000 non-Jewish Poles, 23,000 Roma and Sinti (Gypsies), 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war, and 25,000 others (Soviet civilians, Lithuanians, Czechs, French, Yugoslavs, Germans, Austrians, and Italians).

8. List two things you learned about Auschwitz III-Buna

The Holocaust was a mass killing and torturing of innocent people such as Jews, Gypsies, or mentally challenged. Ghettos and Concentration camps were terrible they had no food and about 12 people lived together in 2 rooms. They also held selections on what people to kill and also killed babies as if they were target practice.

The Holocost

What do I know about the holocost?

• It took place in Concentration camps all across Germany.
• It was forcing the Jewsish people to work.
• The main camp was in Aushwitz.
• Many many people were killed in the holocost.
• If a Jew cried they were believe to be mentally unstable and were then killed.
• You were killed either by being shot or being sent into a poisinous gas chamber.
• Many women and children were often killed on arrival to the camp.

What do "we" know about the Holocost

• US troops found the first concentration camp in 1944.
• Hilter hated all Jews.
•  Hilter wanted the Aryan race- blonde hair, blue eyes.
• It wasn't  just Jews, it was gypsies, gays, and metally challenged.
• Ann Frank wrote a famous diary about it.
• Scientific experiments were performed on the people.
• Dr. Mengele preformed experiments.
• Experiments included splitting twins, cutting out eye, face transplating.
• If you cried you were mentally unstable and were killed.
• There were both death camps and work camps.
• There were mass killings and gas chambers.
• The Holocost took place in Europe, mainly Germany, Poland, and Austria.
• 6 million Jews were said to have been killed, and 11 million total people were exterminated during the Holocost.

Choice Book presentation

And in the morning By John Wilson on Prezi

9 sentence paragraph the lotery

In Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery",  irony is illistrtated through the community event of the lottery. Initally the reader begins toassume that the lottery is an event wher something is won, but as the story progresses, one realizes that the lottery is a death sentence.After all of the children had gathered stones and were playing the men gathered as well and the women were joking with each other and smiling instead of laughing. “They greeted one another and exchanged bits of gossip as they went to join their children, and the children came reluctantly, having to be called four or five times.” The story starts off to be a nice day and everyone is happy until later when more unfortunate events happen. As the day goes on and they draw from the box and Tess Hutchinson gets the black dot everything takes a turn for the worse. “Tessie, Mr. Summers said. There was a pause and then Mr. Summers looked at Bill Hutchinson and Bill unfolded his paper and showed it. It was blank.” This results in Tessie getting the black dot and being stoned to death. This story shows that in the end the lottery is not a good thing and that every time there is one in this town that someone dies.

By the Waters of Babylon

Author: Stephen Vincent Benet

Prereading: I believe that we take it in at a good amount. There are so slow learners some fast and some average. There is a good balance at the pace we learn. I think the more we advance technology the better. There is always new things to learn or to discover.

Plot reaction: On his journey East he visits the Hudson river, He sees the streets of New York City, The treasuery building and an appartament building.
Questions: How did the civilization die? Why did they have to fear these "dead places"?

The Lottery

Author- Shirley Jackson
Prereading- Justice is when everones voice is heard a a fair decision is made about an event.
Traditions- My family has always gone and cut down our ouwn Christmas tree for as long asi can remember. We always go to my grandamas on my mothers side every Christmas day.
Plot/Reaction- The villagers allhad to draw a piece of paper from the black box and the family with the black dot, a family member had to die.
Why stoned? Why did they do it?

By the waters of Babylon c/q/c

Claim: The first society caused their own detruction.
Quote: I remember the dead mans face. They were men who were here before us we must rebuild.
Commentary: The people who were there before the society, and they destoryed themselves in some kind of war and was the reason of their own demise. We need to take in new information slowly and must fully understand it to use it.

There will come soft rains

Author:  Ray Bradbury

Prereading:  I think the worls will look similar to the way it does today, but things will be a lot easier than  they are today.

Plot/Reaction: 

7:00                                                                            time to get up 7:09                                                                            breakfast time 8:01                                                                            go to school 8:30                                                                            eggs were shrived 9:15                                                                            time to clean 10:00                                                                          sun came out 10:15                                                                          garden sprinklers came on 12 noon                                                                      dog whined 2:00                                                                            a voice sang 2:15                                                                            dog was gone 2:30                                                                            bridge tables sprouted from patio walls. 4:30                                                                            nursery walls glowed.

                

Questions:  Why did everyone have to die? Why did the house explode?

Quotient Sandwhich

Claim: The house in the story used a lot of technology to make life easier.

Quote: In the kitchen the breakfast stove gave a hissing sigh and ejected from its warm interior 8 pieces of perfectly browned toast, 8 sunny side up eggs, 16 slices of bacon, 2 coffees, and 2 cool glasses of milk.

Commentary: The house made life so much easier that it implied that humans are not needed  for the rest of the world to keep working and moving on.

Quotation Sandwiches

Claim:
The society that Harrison Bergeron lives in is not at all equal.

Quote:
"All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General."

Commentary:
This means that there was not equality because the people giving the handicaps were clearly better then those receiving them.                                        

Harrison Bergeron

Author-Kurt Vonnegut
Prereading-
What is equality?
Equality- Being treated the same as everyone else no matter what.
Plot/reaction-
                    1 Harrison Bergeron is a man who has the most handicaps out of anyone.
                    2. Harrison goes on tv and shows that you do not need handicaps
Questions- Why does he get shot?
                  Why dont the government people need handicaps

Content of a dead a dead mans pocket group work

Exposition

• Tom and his wife are the main characters.
• Tom's wife leaves without him.
• He stays home to work. 
• New York City  building 11 stories up.

Rising Action

• The window comes open.
• The paper flew out the window.
• He climbs out to go get it.
• He reaches the paper.

Climax

• He finally reached the paper but is unable to move.

Falling Action

• He is able to finally move and gets to the window
• He has to punch through it to get back into this apartment.

Resolution

• He now has his paper again, and keeps it on his desk with a pen.

Symbol

• The yellow paper is a symbol of his hard work and the power he can obtain with that paper.

Contents of a Dead Man's Pocket

Title of Selection: Contents of a Dead Man's Pocket
By: Jack Finney
Date Read: 10/8/10

Pre-reading
Top 5 priorities in my life:
1. family and friends.
2. grades
3. baseball
4. basketball
5. my faith

Plot/Reaction
The yellow sheet of paper was full of facts, quotations and figures that he needed for work. Tom retrieves the paper by climbing out of the window, onto the side of the building.

Questions

why did tom care so much?

Why didnt Tom use something heavier to weigh it down the second time around?

did Clare ever find out about all this?

Quote
Tom Benecke burst into laughter and then closed the door behind him." this means that Tom finally got his priorities straight and lightened up a little about work. 

Literary Elements Terms

Symbol- symbol is a person, place, or thing comes to represent an abstract idea or concept -- it is anything that stands for something beyond itself.
Under cover brother has a necklace that symbolizes the freedom and the power of black people.

Literary Elements Terms

Resolution- Resolution is the part of the story's plot line in which the problem of the story is resolved or worked out. This occurs after the falling action and is typically where the story ends.


When under cova brotha kills the feather, ending their mind control chicken plan.

Showing vs. Telling

Telling- I was bored
As i sat there as time dragged on and on and it seemed as if the clock refused to move. The hands moved like a snail inching on little by little. I sat there waiting, wondering if i will ever find anything exciting to ever happen again.


I was tired-
I was beyond tired. Tired didnt even begin to describe how i was feeling. I needed sleep. I was just floating along in my day unaware of any of my surroundings, I was just there no real actions or taking just floating along. I was exhausted!

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If you had six months to live, what would you do with your time? Would you do something something outrageous and different or live your life as it is?

        I would be very scared if i was told I only had six more months to live. I would have to split my time in half betwwen normal life, like seeign friends and do extrordinary things that i have never done before. Some new things that i would like to try are to jump out of a plane, bungy jump, and surf in the ocean. I would of course have to visit some major landmarks that I have not seen before. those places are the Grand canyon, Statue of Liberty and the Empire State building.  I would do all of these activities first that way I could spend my last three months close to those special friends before the end of my life. I think that that would be more important that seeing the places and doing the crazy things just because of the fact I would for sure have to say goodbye.

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