Test Analysis - Due 6/11

Your Test Analysis should include:
I. The answer you chose
a. Why you chose this answer
II. The correct answer
a. Why the correct answer is a better choice

1. A
2. C
3. D
4. B
5. C
6. A
7. D
8. C
9. D
10. A
11. D
12. D
13. C
14. A or B
15. C
16. D
17. A
18. D
19. C
20. A
21. B
22. D
23. A
24. D
25. B

Extra Credit Assignment - Due 6/11

For your extra credit assignment, you must identify the title and the author of the book that you read. You are required to write a two-page (12 font, Times New Roman) response to the book that you read, including at least two quotes (with page numbers) from the book. Here are some suggestions for what to include in your response:

1. Why did you choose this book?
2. Can you make any text-to-self connections?
3. Was there any figurative language in the book?
4. What did you think of the protagonist?
5. What did you think of the antagonist?
6. Was there a good plot?
7. What is the setting of the book?
8. What genre is this book? (fiction, non-fiction, fantasy, mystery, etc.)
9. What is unique about this book?
10. What surprised you about the main character?
11. What mood does the author create for the readers?
12. Does the main character change at all?
13. Does the main character learn any important life lessons in this book? What are they?
14. What is the most interesting scene in the novel? Why is it interesting?
15. What did you think about the end of the book?
16. How would you change the end of the book if you were able to rewrite it?
17. Which character are you most like?
18. Does the protagonist remind you of anyone you know?
19. If you were to become the director when they make this book into a movie, what actor would you want in the role of the protagonist? Of the antagonist?
20. Do you feel that you learned anything from this novel? If so, what did you learn from it?

PLEASE REMEMBER: THIS IS A REFLECTION – IT SHOULD NOT BE A PLOT SUMMARY.

Shakespeare Blog #3 - What about your friends?

Friendship is a prevalent theme in Julius Caesar. Give an example of this theme and explain its significance. Provide a quote for support. (150 – 200 words). Please don’t forget to spellcheck your response.

Shakespeare Blog #2

Isn’t it ironic?

Shakespeare uses dramatic irony (when the audience knows something that one or more character(s) do not) to make the plot more interesting for his audience. Find an example of dramatic irony in Julius Caesar. Use a quote for support and explain how the quote is an example of dramatic irony. How does this quote help to move the plot along? (150 – 200 words)

Just for Fun...

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Shakespeare Blog #1

“Beware the Ides of March!”

Shakespeare uses the literary element of foreshadowing to help his readers/audience understand what is going on in his play Julius Caesar.

Foreshadowing is: an author’s use of hints or clues to suggest events that will occur later in the story.

Explain how Shakespeare uses foreshadowing in the first two scenes of Julius Caesar using examples from the text. (At least 100 words)

William Shakespeare

Here is some background information about William Shakespeare.

Night Blog Question #3

Wiesel uses fire as a symbol throughout Night to impress upon his readers the devastation of the Holocaust victims. Choose one quote from the memoir that demonstrates Wiesel’s use of this symbol and explain what you think this quote reveals about Wiesel’s life and the Holocaust. (150 – 200 words).

Night Blog Question #2

Create a title for chapter five. Explain why you chose the title, using quotes from the chapter (150 – 200 words).

Night Blog Question #1

*** Please remember that your post needs to be 150 - 200 words to get full credit***

In the preface, Robert McAfee Brown makes the following comment:

"...But we cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly if it true, and in the subsequent quarter century the world has had to hear a story it would have preferred not to hear - the story of how a cultured people turned to genocide, and how the rest of the world, also composed to cultured people, remained silent in the face of genocide."

Do you agree/disagree with Brown's position? Explain.

Night Vocabulary

1. Avid – Enthusiastic, eager, or dedicated

2. Pestilent – Destructive to life; deadly; poisonous

3. Mirage – An illusion, without substance or reality

4. Countenance – Calm facial expression, appearance

5. Balm – An oily, aromatic or fragrant substance, often of medicinal value

6. Fortnight – Fourteen nights and days; two weeks

7. Stupefied – To overwhelm with amazement; astound; astonish

8. Venture – An undertaking involving uncertainty as to the outcome

9. Treatise – A formal piece of writing; generally longer and more detailed than an essay.

10. Premonition – A feeling of anticipation of a future event; a forewarning

Elie Wiesel

Please click above for more information about Elie Wiesel.


Elie Wiesel Biography

Elie Wiesel was born in the small town of Sighet in Transylvania, where people of different languages and religions have lived side by side for centuries, sometimes peacefully, sometimes in bitter conflict. The region has long been claimed by both Hungary and Romania and, in the 20th century, has changed hands repeatedly, a hostage to the fortunes of war.

Elie Wiesel grew up in the close-knit Jewish community of Sighet. While the family spoke Yiddish at home, they read newspapers and conducted their grocery business in German, Hungarian or Romanian as the occasion demanded. Ukrainian, Russian and other languages were also widely spoken in the town. Elie began religious studies in classical Hebrew almost as soon as he could speak. The young boy's life centered entirely on his religious studies. He loved the mystical tradition and folk tales of the Hassidic sect of Judaism, to which his mother's family belonged. His father, though religious, encouraged the boy to study the modern Hebrew language and concentrate on his secular studies. The first years of World War II left Sighet relatively untouched. Although the village changed hands from Romania to Hungary, the Wiesel family believed they were safe from the persecutions suffered by Jews in Germany and Poland.

The secure world of Wiesel's childhood ended abruptly with the arrival of the Nazis in Sighet in 1944. The Jewish inhabitants of the village were deported en masse to concentration camps in Poland. The 15 year-old boy was separated from his mother and sister immediately on arrival in Auschwitz. He never saw them again. He managed to remain with his father for the next year as they were worked almost to death, starved, beaten, and shuttled from camp to camp on foot, or in open cattle cars, in driving snow, without food, proper shoes, or clothing. In the last months of the war, Wiesel's father succumbed to dysentery, starvation, exhaustion and exposure.

After the war, the teenaged Wiesel found asylum in France, where he learned for the first time that his two older sisters had survived the war. Wiesel mastered the French language and studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, while supporting himself as a choir master and teacher of Hebrew. He became a professional journalist, writing for newspapers in both France and Israel.

For ten years, he observed a self-imposed vow of silence and wrote nothing about his wartime experience. In 1955, at the urging of the Catholic writer Francois Mauriac, he set down his memories in Yiddish, in a 900-page work entitled Un die welt hot geshvign (And the world kept silent). The book was first published in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Wiesel compressed the work into a 127-page French adaptation, La Nuit (Night), but several years passed before he was able to find a publisher for the French or English versions of the work. Even after Wiesel found publishers for the French and English translations, the book sold few copies.

In 1978, President Jimmy Carter appointed Elie Wiesel Chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. In 1985 he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Freedom and, in 1986, the Nobel Prize for Peace. The English translation of his memoirs appeared in 1995 as All Rivers Run to the Sea. Since 1976, he has been Andrew Mellon Professor of Humanities at Boston University. He makes his home in New York City with his wife and their son, Elisha.


Arrest in Attack on Wiesel

Saturday - February 17th, 2007

The San Francisco district attorney's office said on Saturday that the police in New Jersey had made an arrest in a Feb. 1 attack in which Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize-winning author, was accosted in a San Francisco hotel.

A suspect, Eric Hunt, 22, of Sussex County, N.J., was arrested on Saturday in Montgomery Township, N.J., and will be charged with six felony counts including kidnapping, battery and elder abuse. Mr. Wiesel, 78, was not injured in the attack, in which Mr. Hunt allegedly pulled him from an elevator and tried to restrain him. Mr. Hunt will also be charged with hate crimes, the district attorney's office said.

Holocaust Unit Resources

Click on the picture above for more information about the Holocaust.






Here is a timeline of events.






The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.