Time to finish Night

Homework: Finish Night if you  haven't already!
Test on Wednesday. To study for the test, you need to:

• Answer all of the questions in the study guide
• Review the book on Sparknotes: summary of Night
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Today:

1. Work on finishing up your study guide. It's due Tuesday and is worth 30 points
2. Hand in your Short, short story. Make it good. Most students do not get top scores because they don't try. Usually the not-so-good ones are basic statements and don't have a guiding idea or theme. For example, here's one (off the top of my head) that's not good:
      Baby shoes are such cute little shoes.
 or  It was awesome to make a hole in one!
Better would be:
     The cute baby shoes should have been worn more.
 or  The hole in one was the defining moment in his struggle for a meaningful life.
In the revisions there is a guiding idea. See what I mean? It shows what is important in life, not just what happened. Write a story that shows what you value or what's important in life (or some other theme)
3. If you haven't done so already, hand in the 1/2-1 full page on The Story That Your Shoes Tell.
4. Vocabulary for Friday Vocabulary  Night  "Emaciated" to "Vigilance"



The other day we watched the YouTube video on Elie Wiesel's trip to Auschwitz with Opra Winfrey. He talked about the shoes of the people who died, and how much is said about their lives simply by shoe that was left behind. Shoes tell a story, he says. It's a story of who the person was, what the person valued in life, where the person and been in life (maybe there was mud on the shoe from a path they had trod, for example), and other things. We can imagine where that person might have gone (maybe found a cure for cancer, for example).

This was your assignment:
Look at your shoe. Examine it closely, very closely, Think about the wear and tear on it and where it has been. Think about how you have felt in each one of those places. What does this say about who you are and where you are going in life? 
What is the story that your shoe tells of your life?

The short, short story genre.
During the 1920's the author Ernest Hemingway won an interesting bet with his friends. He bet them that he could write a thought-provoking and complete short story in less than 10 words. Here's Hemingway's story: "For sale: baby shoes. Never worn."
If you think about it, that story says a whole lot about the family the baby was born into. So sad, isn't it?

Here are some examples of other stories like his: Short, Short Stories
ASSIGNMENT:
Now, write your own short, short story. Remember, it needs a beginning, and middle, and an end and must have a controlling idea. Keep in mind that fiction deals with life themes, such as loss, redemption, the quest for knowledge, etc.


We will submit these stories to INK for publication. Make them good.
Due Monday. Typed. Feel free to hand in three or four of them.

Vocabulary  Night

Sparknotes summary of Night

Brief History of the Jewish People
Continuing History--Creation of the Jewish State

Judaism--terminology
   Babylonian Civilization
   Israel

Auschewitz Death Camp--Oprah Winfrey tours the Auschewitz museum with Elie Wiesel