Task #1 Auschwitz
Auschwitz: Concentration Camp
Auschwitz was the largest concentration camp of its kind. Click here to read an article about Auschwitz. Once you have read the article, answer the following questions about the famous camp.
1. Where is Auschwitz located?
2. When were the Auschwitz camps established?
3. What were the three purposes for the construction of the Auschwitz camps?
4. Who was Josef Mengele? What were his nicknames? What did he do at Auschwitz?
5. How many Jews were deported to Auschwitz?
6. How many Jews were killed at Auschwitz?
7. What is "selection"?
8. Why were Jews marched from the camps? Give 3 reasons.
9. When did the Soviet army enter Auschwitz?
10. How many prisoners were liberated at that time?
2. When were the Auschwitz camps established?
3. What were the three purposes for the construction of the Auschwitz camps?
4. Who was Josef Mengele? What were his nicknames? What did he do at Auschwitz?
5. How many Jews were deported to Auschwitz?
6. How many Jews were killed at Auschwitz?
7. What is "selection"?
8. Why were Jews marched from the camps? Give 3 reasons.
9. When did the Soviet army enter Auschwitz?
10. How many prisoners were liberated at that time?
Task #2 Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel: Author of Night
Elie Wiesel is the author of Night. He is a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Click here to read a biography about Wiesel to answer the following questions.
1. When was Elie Wiesel born and where?
2. In what year was Wiesel deported from his small village in Romania?
3. Wiesel says that the flames consumed his faith. What do you think he means by that?
4. How many books has Wiesel published?
5. While Elie was recovering from a car accident in 1956 what did he do?
6. What three reasons does Wiesel give for the building of the Holocaust memorial in America?
7. Wiesel says that something in all of us died with those Holocaust victims, what is he referring to?
2. In what year was Wiesel deported from his small village in Romania?
3. Wiesel says that the flames consumed his faith. What do you think he means by that?
4. How many books has Wiesel published?
5. While Elie was recovering from a car accident in 1956 what did he do?
6. What three reasons does Wiesel give for the building of the Holocaust memorial in America?
7. Wiesel says that something in all of us died with those Holocaust victims, what is he referring to?
Task #3 Survey
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Task #4 Jewish Faith
Click here to read about the Jewish faith. Then answer the questions in complete sentences.
1. Judaism focuses on the relationships between what three things?
2. Who is Rambam?
3. According to the Jewish belief, who is the Messiah and what will he do?
4. Jewish mysticism is known as what?
5. What is another name for Jewish people?
2. Who is Rambam?
3. According to the Jewish belief, who is the Messiah and what will he do?
4. Jewish mysticism is known as what?
5. What is another name for Jewish people?
Task #5 NIGHT Chapter One
Answer the following questions in complete sentences.
Describe the following characters:
Moche' the Beadle-
Elie Wiesel-
Elie's father-
Explain the metaphor Moche uses on page 15.
Why don't the Jews believe Moche's story?
Page 29- "The ghetto was not guarded. People could come and go as they pleased." -Why don't the Jews try to flee?
Moche' the Beadle-
Elie Wiesel-
Elie's father-
Explain the metaphor Moche uses on page 15.
Why don't the Jews believe Moche's story?
Page 29- "The ghetto was not guarded. People could come and go as they pleased." -Why don't the Jews try to flee?
Task #6 Jewish Life During the Holocaust
Life as a Jew: Click here to read an article about the lives of Jews during the Holocaust then answer the questions in complete sentences.
1. Why were the Jews singled out for persecution?
2. Where would Jewish children hide?
3. Where was the largest ghetto located? How many people were there?
4. How did Nazis differentiate between a Jew and a non-Jew?
5. Who was Rosa Robota and what did she do?
6. What are the two types of camps that the Nazis built?
7. What was Zyclon B?
2. Where would Jewish children hide?
3. Where was the largest ghetto located? How many people were there?
4. How did Nazis differentiate between a Jew and a non-Jew?
5. Who was Rosa Robota and what did she do?
6. What are the two types of camps that the Nazis built?
7. What was Zyclon B?
Task #7 Chapter 2 Similes and Metaphors
1. Pg. 33 Metaphor- "The world was hermetically sealed." What does the author mean? What is hermetically sealed?
2. Pg. 34 Simile- "....she looked like a withered tree in a corn field" Explain what this means. What would it look like?
3. Locate a metaphor on pg. 34 and explain it.
4. Locate a metaphor on pg. 36 and explain it.
5. Why do the Jews on the train beat Madame Schacter?
6. Write a simile to explain how the Jews beat her.
2. Pg. 34 Simile- "....she looked like a withered tree in a corn field" Explain what this means. What would it look like?
3. Locate a metaphor on pg. 34 and explain it.
4. Locate a metaphor on pg. 36 and explain it.
5. Why do the Jews on the train beat Madame Schacter?
6. Write a simile to explain how the Jews beat her.
AUSCHWITZ- "Work is Liberty"
Task #8 Chapter 3 Answer in complete sentences.
1. What were the illusions Elie refers to?
2. Why do Elie and his father lie about their ages?
3. Describe what the first night in the barracks was like for Elie.
4. Explain the metaphor on page 46- ".....the child that I was had been consumed by the flames."
5. What is inscribed above the iron gate at Auschwitz? Why is it ironic?
2. Why do Elie and his father lie about their ages?
3. Describe what the first night in the barracks was like for Elie.
4. Explain the metaphor on page 46- ".....the child that I was had been consumed by the flames."
5. What is inscribed above the iron gate at Auschwitz? Why is it ironic?
TASK #9 Watch the video below over Auschwitz.
Task #10 Chapter 4 Pg. 55-72 Answer in complete sentences.
1 Summarize Elie's encounter with the dentist.
2. Who took Elie's gold tooth? Why? Why did Elie give it up?
3. How did Elie describe the prisoners after the air raid? Provide a quotation from the book and an explanation.
4. What happened to the young man from Warsaw?
5. How did Elie say the soup tasted the night the pipel was hanged? Explain.
Task #11
List 5 major events that have occurred thus far in the novel and describe each event.
Task #12 Answer one of the following questions in a complete paragraph. Support your writing with information from the novel.
1. Why did the Jews hold onto their illusions for so long?
2. What picture does the novel put into your mind about the Holocaust?
3. How would the story be different if Elie's father were telling it?
Task #13 In recent chapters, Wiesel is pushed closer and closer toward hopelessness and death. His inexplicable will to live and the realities of life pull him back again and again. Record 4 specific examples from the text that create a sense of hopelessness and 4 events that provide hope for Wiesel and the Jews to endure the concentration camp.
TASK #14
On page 75 Wiesel approaches his father who is bowed down. As Wiesel kisses his father's hand he notices a tear. He says that he and his father had never understood one another so clearly. What does he mean by this?
Task #15 Chapter 6 page 91-102
1. While running, an idea began to fascinate Elie. What was the idea? What kept him from carrying out his idea?
2. On page 100-101 Juliek is playing his violin for the dead and dying Jews. In the morning he is dead. Elie describes him as, "a strange overwhelming corpse". What does the author mean by this?
3. Even though "death" wraps itself around Wiesel and everything around him "dances the dance of death", Wiesel refuses to give in to it. Construct a CDCM paragraph about his will to live.
2. On page 100-101 Juliek is playing his violin for the dead and dying Jews. In the morning he is dead. Elie describes him as, "a strange overwhelming corpse". What does the author mean by this?
3. Even though "death" wraps itself around Wiesel and everything around him "dances the dance of death", Wiesel refuses to give in to it. Construct a CDCM paragraph about his will to live.
Task #16 Chapter 7 page 103-108
Respond to two of the following quotes from Chapter 7. Use complete sentences.
1. "They undressed him, the survivors avidly sharing out his clothes, then two "gravediggers" took him, one by the head and one by the feet, and threw him out of the wagon like a sack of flour" pg. 104
2. "In the wagon where the bread had fallen, a real battle had broken out. Men threw themselves on top of each other, stamping on each other, tearing at each other, biting each other." pg. 105
3. "He was not able to get very far. Two men had seen and hurled themselves upon him. Others joined in. When they withdrew, next to me were two corpses, side by side, the father and the son." pg. 106
4. "The last day had been the most murderous. A hundred of us had got into the cattle wagon. A dozen of us got out- among them, my father and I." pg. 108
Respond to two of the following quotes from Chapter 7. Use complete sentences.
1. "They undressed him, the survivors avidly sharing out his clothes, then two "gravediggers" took him, one by the head and one by the feet, and threw him out of the wagon like a sack of flour" pg. 104
2. "In the wagon where the bread had fallen, a real battle had broken out. Men threw themselves on top of each other, stamping on each other, tearing at each other, biting each other." pg. 105
3. "He was not able to get very far. Two men had seen and hurled themselves upon him. Others joined in. When they withdrew, next to me were two corpses, side by side, the father and the son." pg. 106
4. "The last day had been the most murderous. A hundred of us had got into the cattle wagon. A dozen of us got out- among them, my father and I." pg. 108
Task #17 Chapter 8 page 109-116
Click here to read about dysentery. Then answer the following questions.
1. What is dysentery?
2. What is the difference between bacillary dysentery and dysentery caused by parasitic worms?
3. What is the prognosis for an individual with amebic dysentery?
4. Which type of dysentery may lead to pancreatitis?
5. Why should Elie NOT give his father water?
6. Ironically, there is freedom in his father's death for Elie and his father. Explain.
Click here to read about dysentery. Then answer the following questions.
1. What is dysentery?
2. What is the difference between bacillary dysentery and dysentery caused by parasitic worms?
3. What is the prognosis for an individual with amebic dysentery?
4. Which type of dysentery may lead to pancreatitis?
5. Why should Elie NOT give his father water?
6. Ironically, there is freedom in his father's death for Elie and his father. Explain.