Into the Night...

As we wrapped up today's class, I see that a lot of you still have a lot of work to do in order to get these research papers done. I hope this peer editing process helped many of you, and I hope you use it to your advantage. Look at all the comments your peers wrote on your worksheet as well as on your paper. This isn't the time to point fingers and discredit their advice because you think you're right and they're wrong. This is the time to look at your own work as critically as they did and do the work that's necessary in order for you to get a decent grade on this paper. Remember, this research paper is going to be worth two test grades, and could be the determining factor of whether or not you pass this class.

But in order to do well on this paper, you need to turn something in. Again, make sure that you are not late, that your paper is not in your locker, and that you are not absent. Under NO circumstances will I or Mr. Hannah be accepting late papers. We just can't do it. In order for us to have enough time to grade all of these before final exams, we need to have all papers in by Friday at the time you have class.

Tomorrow, we'll briefly go over how to make a cover page and the Works Cited.

As for tonight's reading, here are some markers that should help you along the way:

--Elie has lost complete and utter faith in God. He writes, "My eyes had opened and I was alone, terribly alone in a world without God, without man." He no longer feels like the little boy he once was. He no longer puts breathing and living in the same level as God.

--Elie's father feels like his death is coming. He no longer feels like he can make it. He offers Elie a spoon and a knife as his gift to him. Elie looks at the spoon and knife as his inheritance. Make sure you know what this word means and how it can relate to you.

--Elie writes, "Christmas and New Year's we did not work. We were treated to a slightly less transparent soup." Why do you think that is? If all the Germans want to do is kill all the Jews, then why treat them better on holidays? I doubt they actually respect their religious traditions. So why do it?

--Elie seriously injurs his foot. He has to go to the doctor's to get it fixed. The doctor does actually fix his foot, but Elie has to remain in the hospital wing for two weeks to let it heal. But news starts to spread that the Allied Forces were drawing nearer. The camp was to be evacuated. There was talk that they would just take all the prisoners in the hospital ward and carry them right to the ovens. Elie had a choice to make. He could either go with his father and the other prisoners and evacuate the camp OR his doctor would allow Elie's father to be taken in as a patient and they could stay. Elie and his father decide to evacuate. After the war, Elie learned that the prisoners who stayed in the hospital ward were freed two days later by the Russians.

--Elie and his father get up early in the morning and are forced to march along with the other prisoners out of the camp.

If you didn't understand each of these checkpoints, please go back and read them again to make sure you understand each point. One of these will be the paragraph quiz tomorrow!

DEETS:
In-class:
--Peer Review Process

HW:
--Read pgs. 66-84 in Night
--Research Paper due Friday!