"Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed." --Night Chapter 3

Today's class started with our Chapter 3 Paragraph Quiz. As I said in class, we need to start practicing writing our paragraphs at a faster rate to prepare ourselves for the final exam and all future tests that you'll be taking--MCAS, SAT. Unfortunately, you can't get all the time in the world to finish these exams so we need to start practicing writing at a faster processing speed.

Every single time we take a chapter quiz, we'll be writing a paragraph. In order for us to continue building upon these skills, I will allow you to reference every previous paragraph you write in order to physically see your mistakes and be able to fix them. Hopefully, these will eradicate any silly mistakes you guys continue to keep making and help us reach better writing.

After our quiz, we reviewed the main poitns of Chapter 3:

--Elie and his father are separated from his mother and sisters forever. Elie never sees his mother and sisters again. Until this day, Elie has no idea what happened to them. He can only assume they were taken to the crematorium.
--A fellow prisoner told Elie and his father to lie about his age. Elie pretended he was older and and Elie's father pretended he was younger so that they could look strong and healthy and not be sent to the crematorium.
--Elie asks, "How was it possible that men, women, and children were being burned and that the world kept silent?" (32). He then asks, "I could not believe that human beings were being burned in our times; the world would never tolerate such crimes..." (33). Elie has now begun to question his religion. Remember, this is a huge deal. Elie was a child that used to cry every time he cried and put praying, living, and breathing in the same sentence. Now, he looks up into the sky and damns the God that brought him here. He has no God. His God has been kept silent. No God would allow this to happen.
--This passage is the most famous section of Elie's memoir. He uses repetition in order to emphasize the terror and the trauma he experienced on the first night of being in the camp.

Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed.
Never shall I forget that smoke.
Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky.
Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith for ever.
Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live.
Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live
as long as God Himself.
Never.

--The word "chimney" is the only word that had meaning in the camp. That word brought real terror to anyone who said it because the chimney was a constant reminder of the death that awaited all of the prisoners if they step out of line for any reason.

--Elie's father gets beat up right in front of him because he is suffering from colic disease. Elie doesn't even flinch. So many prisoners, including Elie's father, suffered from diseases such as colic disease, typhus, lice, starvation.

--There are many instance of irony in this chapter:

1) "At every step, white signs with black skulls looked down on us. The inscription: WARNING! DANGER OF DEATH!

2) "This one had an iron gate with the overhead inscription: ARBEIT MACHT FREI."

3) "The unskilled were kept until the end."

--Elie writes, "The three 'veteran' prisoners, needles in hand, tattooed numbers on our left arms. I became A-7713." Imagine what it would be like to have no name, but be referred to as a number for the rest of your life.

As for the documentary we watched, I know some of it was difficult to watch. However, I feel that it is important to witness what Elie witnessed every day for MONTHS. We can only begin to imagine what that must have been like, so we should show our respect to him and all Holocaust survivors by being brave enough to witness for ourselves the terror of the camps.

As for your MEAL organziers due tomorrow, please complete the E's and the A's. For the E section, just rewrite the quote. To introduce the quote, you can use some of these sentence starters:

-- According to "..."
-- Research shows "..."
-- One writer states, "..."
-- One study found, "..."
-- One piece of evidence that social media works/does not work is "..."

For your analysis, please summarize and analyze your quotes according to the edits your classmate gave you. Do the work!

DEETS:
In-class:
--Chapter 3 Paragraph Quiz
--Chapter 3 Review
--Fog and Night Documentary

HW:
--MEAL Organziers
--Read up to pg. 65 in Night due Monday