FRIDAY morning blog 4-6-07

LAST Holocaust Morning BLog!! Make this one good!!!

title or section of your book
15 complete sentences in your own SENTENCES!!!
2 reflection

Morning Blog Thursday 4-5-07

THis is the last week for Morning Blogs in the Holocaust books, make sure you do well!! COmplete sentences in your own words!!

GRAB a holocaust Book
1. title or section
2. 8 sentences summary
3. 2 reflection
4. describe the pictures you see

Wednesday morning blog 4-4-07

GRAB a holocaust Book

1. title or section
2. 8 sentences summary
3. 2 reflection
4. describe the pictures you see

WHO IS YOUR PERSON?

There are 350,000 survivors of the Holocaust alive today...

http://fcit.usf.edu/Holocaust/people/survivor.htm


Children


http://www.adl.org/children_holocaust/children_main1.asp

Research on your person!
Tell me
1.your person’s life story
2.Who was your person?
3.What was his or her position/ role in the whole holocaust? Helper, worker, survivor…etc

4. Create a powerpoint on your person

5. Retell your person's survivor during the holocaust

you will present your powerpoint next Monday!!!!! APRIL 9

April 3 TUESDAY MORNING BLOG

Read through your Holocaust Book of your choice. Please read through it.make sure you are not copying word for word from your book!
Trust me your grade will be effected!!
Title of your book or Section
describe what pictures you see
15 sentences on what you learned ( use detail)and complete sentences!)
2 sentence reflection on how you feel!

monday april 2 morning blog

Read through your Holocaust Book of your choice. Please read through it.make sure you are not copying word for word from your book! Trust me your grade will be effected!!
Title of your book or Section
describe what pictures you see
15 sentences on what you learned ( use detail)and complete sentences!)
2 sentence reflection on how you feel!

Thursday Morning BLOG 3-29-07

Read through your Holocaust Book of your choice. Please read through it.make sure you are not copying word for word from your book! Trust me your grade will be effected!!
Title of your book or Section
describe what pictures you see
15 sentences on what you learned ( use detail)and complete sentences!)
2 sentence reflection on how you feel!

Too MANY MISSING BLOGS

i AM LOOKING AT THE BLOGS AND THERE ARE MANY OF YOU WHO HAVE MISSING BLOGS FROMLAST WEEK AND THIS WEEK!!
report ENDS THIS WEEK!


reminder....african country presentation will CONTINUE ON THURSDAY!

YOUR FINAL NIGHT PROJECT

§Final Project
§100 points
USE ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

§You will create a collage that represents what you have learned about the Holocaust. This collage could be (an assortment pictures, photographs taken from the Internet, lines from text we have read, quotes, objects, etc. Be creative, but most importantly you need to reflect in your collage what you have learned

Wednesday Blog 3-28-07

Read through your Holocaust Book of your choice. Please read through it.make sure you are not copying word for word from your book! Trust me your grade will be effected!!

1. Title of your book or Section
2. describe what pictures you see
3. 15 sentences on what you learned ( use detail)and complete sentences!)
4. 2 sentence reflection on how you feel!

Tuesday 3-27-07

Read through your Holocaust Book of your choice. Please read through it.make sure you are not copying word for word from your book! Trust me your grade will be effected!!

• Title of your book or Section
• describe what pictures you see
• 15 sentences on what you learned ( use detail)and complete sentences!)
• 2 sentence reflection on how you feel!

Monday Blog 3-26

Read through your Holocaust Book of your choice. Please read through it.make sure you are not copying word for word from your book! Trust me your grade will be effected!!

Title of your book or Section
describe what pictures you see
15 sentences on what you learned ( use detail)and complete sentences!)
2 sentence reflection on how you feel!

Friday Morning blog 3-23-07

Read through your Holocaust Book of your choice. Please read through it.make sure you are not copying word for word from your book! Trust me your grade will be effected!!

1. Pick someone's blog from yesterday's, tell me who's you read; read it and write 5 sentence reflect on what you think of that person's blog- what you learned, what they need to improve on or what you thought of it.
   
2. Title of your book or Section
3. describe what pictures you see
4. 15 sentences on what you learned ( use detail)and complete sentences!)
   2 sentence reflection on how you feel!
   

Thursday Morning Blog 3-22-07

Read through your Holocaust Book of your choice. Please read through it.make sure you are not copying word for word from your book! Trust me your grade will be effected!!

Title of your book or Section

describe what pictures you see

15 sentences on what you learned ( use detail)and complete sentences!)
2 sentence reflection on how you feel!

Wednesday 3-21-07 Morning Blog

Read through your Holocaust Book of your choice. Please read through it.make sure you are not copying word for word from your book! Trust me your grade will be effected!!

1. Title of your book or Section
   
2. describe what pictures you see
   
3. 15 sentences on what you learned ( use detail)and complete sentences!)
   
4. 2 sentence reflection on how you feel!
   

morning Blog Tuesday 3-20-07

Read through your Holocaust Book of your choice. Please read through it.make sure you are not copying word for word from your book! Trust me your grade will be effected!!

1. Title of your book or Section
   
2. describe what pictures you see
   
3. 15 sentences on what you learned ( use detail)and complete sentences!)
4. 2 sentence reflection on how you feel!

THEME : what were they in NIGHT!! ESSAY! BLog 22

THEME:
a theme is a broad idea in a story, or a message or lesson conveyed by a work

Here are some ideas of what you could write about:

• Eliezer’s Struggle to Maintain Faith in God
• Silence
• Inhumanity Toward Other Humans
• Father-Son Bonds
• Death
• Faith
• Hatred
• Survival
• Perserverence
• Loss of Innocence

•Explain two of the Themes in NIGHT and how they are developed
Provide examples and page number of where the 2 themes are displayed in the story. This is essay you must write. Make sure you have a copy on your powerpoint and you have proof read your essay before posting. I will have examples provide for you in the comments section. Please read them if you need help.

Last section of Night Blog 21

•IN short PARAGRAPH FORM you need to answer each of the following questions. You are not limited to one paragraph. You must provide specific examples from the book. If a question has to be answered in terms of how you feel about something I expect MUCH more than "I don’t like it." five sentence responses will not earn full credit. I want LONG, DETAILED responses.

1. 
   What is the significance of the book's final image, Wiesel's face, reflected in a mirror? He writes that a corpse gazed back at him, with a look that has never left him. What aspects of him died during his ordeal? What aspects were born in their place? What do you make of his observation that among the men liberated with him, not one sought revenge
2. What is the symbolism of the word "night" in the book?
3. How is Elie’s moral struggle an important element of Night?
4. Why do you think survivors often feel guilty?
5. What hints of hope does Elie offer us?
6. Why is this book relevant today?

Monday Morning Blog 3-19-07

Read through your Holocaust Book of your choice. Please read through it.make sure you are not copying word for word from your book! Trust me your grade will be effected!!

1. Title of your book or Section
   
2. describe what pictures you see
   
3. 15 sentences on what you learned ( use detail)and complete sentences!)
   2 sentence reflection on how you feel!

morning blog 3--16-07 happy friday

Read through your Holocaust Book of your choice. Please read through it.
make sure you are not copying word for word from your book! Trust me your grade will be effected!!

1. Pick someone's blog from yesterday's, tell me who's you read; read it and write 5 sentence reflect on what you think of that person's blog- what you learned, what they need to improve on or what you thought of it.
   
2. Title of your book or Section
   
3. describe what pictures you see
   
4. 15 sentences on what you learned ( use detail)and complete sentences!)
5. 2 sentence reflection on how you feel!

morning blog 3-15-07 Thursday

Read through your Holocaust Book of your choice. Please read through it.

1. Title of the book or Section
   
2. describe what pictures you see
   
3. 15 sentences on what you learned ( use detail)and complete sentences!)2 sentence reflection on how you feel!

Morning Blog 3-14-07 wed

Holocaust Book of your choice, it can be the same book or a different one. Please read through it!

1. Title of the book or Section
   
2. describe what pictures you see
   
3. 15 sentences on what you learned ( use detail)and complete sentences!)2 sentence reflection on how you feel!

morning Blog 3-13-07

All of you received a Holocaust Book of your choice. Please read through it

1. Title of the book or Section
   
2. describe what pictures you see
   
3. 15 sentences on what you learned ( use detail)and complete sentences!)
   2 sentence reflection on how you feel!

Blog 20 Inside Auschwitz DEPORTATION VIDEO

After watching Auschwitz- inside the Nazi State, write a reflection on what you have learn today, you thoughts, what surprised you, what disguised you, how you feel, and do you think that history may repeat itself, why or why not. ( 3 paragraph)

section 8 questions Blog 19

Answer in complete sentences at least 7 sentences each question!

1. 
   How does Wiesel treat his father during the journey to Buchenwald and later during
   his dad's illness? How does Wiesel’s link to his father affect his will to survive?
2. 
   Given their life or death situation, do you believe Wiesel’s attitude toward his father was understandable?
   Explain your reactions
3. Elie weeps (cries) several times in the book; explain when and why. Explain one time he does not weep when it would be expected.
4. 
   What feelings and thoughts went through your mind as you read about Wiesel’s final experiences
   as a German prisoner? What would you say if you could talk to him about this time in
   his life? What would you want him to explain to you?
   

Morning Blog 3-12-07

All of you received a Holocaust Book of your choice. Please read through it

1. Title of the book or Section


2. describe what pictures you see


3. 15 sentences on what you learned ( use detail)and complete sentences!)


4. 2 sentence reflection on how you feel!

night reflection BLOG 18

1. REflect, think about this based upon the whole book and how Elie has grown from an innocent young boy to who is is at the young age of 15.
   How do the people Elie interacts with strengthen or diminish his hope and desire to live? Talk about his father, Madame Schachter, Juliek (the violin player), the French girl, Rabbi Eliahou & his son, the Nazis. Which of their actions touched you the most? Find at least 2 people and explain his relationship and how that person has influenced Elie. ( 15 sentences)
2. Tell one person in your life that has strength your hopes, faith, or desire of life. Who has influenced you the most, how does this person do that? Which of their actions touch you the most? ( 7sentence)

night voc section 8 3-8-07

Voc section 8

define, sentence and a picture on your night powerpoint!

1. emerged
2. hillock
3. timid
4. tiers
5. beseeching
6. livid
7. dysentery
8. invalids
9. feverish
10. spasmodically
11. summons
12. conscience
13. delirious
14. pleaded
15. cauldrons

section 7 blog 17

All these questions need to be in detail and complete. I would say try to write at 4 sentences for each question, use examples and add a reflection to each question!!

1. Summarize 10 events that occur in this chapter
   
2. How did Elie again help his father when they were on the train?
3. Describe the scene Elie witnessed between the father and son.
4. How many got out of the wagon? Where had they arrived?
5. Explain how the father/son roles had been reversed in the case of Elie and his father?
   
6. Imagine being in Elie's position or the fathers position during this chapter, Tell me what you are going through and how would you handle it, feel, react, behave, or be!!! ( 7 sentences)
   

section 7 Night VOC

Section 7 voc night
define, sentence and a picture on your night powerpoint!
indifference
distinguish
halt
inert
spectacle
vitality
spectators
disengage
grimace
loomed
convoy
cargo
livid
wailing
Buchenwald

blog 16 movie sec

watching second part
After watching Auschwitz- inside the Nazi State, write a reflection on what you have learn today, you thoughts, what surprised you, what disguised you, how you feel, and do you think that history may repeat itself, why or why not. ( 3 paragraph)

blog 15 secion 6

1. Summarize the major events in this section. ( at least 8 complete sentences)
2. Tell me 2 things that you admire or disgust about any of the characters in the chapter and why? ( 5 sentences)
3. Rabbi Eliahou’s son abandons him during the death march from Buna,The rabbi is looking for his son: throughout their ordeal in the concentration camps, father and son have protected and supported each other. Eliezer falsely tells Rabbi Eliahou he has not seen the son, yet, during the run, Eliezer saw the son abandon his father, running ahead when it seemed Rabbi Eliahou would not survive. Eliezer prays that he will never do what Rabbi Eliahou’s son did. This illustrating the depth of the brutality to which people are capable of sinking when they are mistreated for too long, these incidents reflect on another, They examine the way that the Holocaust tests father-son bonds.
   What do you think of these unfortunate events? how do you feel about it? Do you think these incidents effects Elie's relationship towards his father? Why do you think that his son abandoned his father? What would you have done is this event, where you and a loved one had to run 42 miles or you will be shot ?Would you take care of yourself or would you do whatever it takes to survive together? Would you also fight over food with your loved one?( 8 sentences)
   

blog 14 section 6

In Jewish prayer, God is often referred to as “Master of the Universe.” After reading this section, what do you think this quote means. Really think about events that have already happen in the story that may lead to this important passage. Pick apart this quote, analyze and describe each sentences on what you think it means and why. ( 10 sentences)

"We were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had forgotten everything—death, fatigue, our natural needs. Stronger than cold or hunger, stronger than the shots and the desire to die, condemned and wandering, mere numbers, we were the only men on earth.
At last, the morning star appeared in the gray sky. A trail of indeterminate light showed on the horizon. We were exhausted. We were without strength, without illusions."

Auschwitz- inside the Nazi State Blog 13

Auschwitz is a physical place-the site of the single largest mass murder in the history of humanity. More people died on that one single spot than the British and the Americans lost militarily in the course of the entire war.
We're looking at the killings on the eastern front. We're looking at the deportations across Europe. We're looking at the course of the war as it affected this place. It's a much bigger canvas. Auschwitz has a physical beginning in May 1940 and a physical end in January 1945. What happens in Auschwitz and the decisions made by people running Auschwitz actually mirror the bigger decisions which are being taken elsewhere.
Many people think they know the story of Auschwitz. It's the place where Jews were murdered. End of story. But for nearly the first year and a half of its operation, there were only a handful of Jews sent to Auschwitz. Its main purpose was to house Polish political prisoners and then Soviet prisoners of war. It had nothing to do with the mass extermination program.
What greater purpose can history have than to try and lead people toward a possible understanding of how this crime could ever have happened? Without an understanding of how it happened, you can't begin to look around the world and think why it might happen again.
After watching Auschwitz- inside the Nazi State, write a reflection on what you have learn today, you thoughts, what surprised you, what disguised you, how you feel, and do you think that history may repeat itself, why or why not. ( 3 paragraph)

night voc section 6

Look these words up

define, sentence, and picture on your night powerpoint

faltering
automatons
midst
famished
parched
indeterminate
illusion
condemned
withered
petrified
distress
privation
staggering
encumbrance
semblance
jostled
bereaved
rabbi

blog 12 p. 82-90

1. pick out 3 new voc words define, sentences and picture
2. Elie escapes death on so many occasions. Tell me in DETAIL incidents where he has manage to escape death. give me the page number as well. Why or how do you think he has? Do you think it is fate or maybe just luck, explain your thoughts. (10 sentences)
3. Eliezer’s foot swells up, and he undergoes an operation. While he is in the hospital recovering, the rumor of the approaching Russian army gives him new hope. Tell me who he meets in the hospital, what happens, and why did he not stay in the hospital to heal? (7 sentences)
4. Based upon this chapter, how can you describe elie's dad, his attitude, and his relationship with his son? examples (6 sentences)

section 5 blog 11

1. Summarize the major events in this section. ( at least 8 complete sentences)





2. It seems that the Nazis have placed themselves in God’s role. Eliezer has decided that the Nazis’ actions mean that God is not present in the concentration camps, and thus praying to him is foolish. What examples display his religions rebel for his faith in his GOD? ( at least 5 complete sentences)





3. Eliezer has been separated from his father to work in the building unit. He worries that his father will not pass the selection and he may never see his father again. In this section how is the relationship between him and his father? Has it changed? How can you relate to his relationship? Is there someone in your life and that you have a similiar relationship where you depend on one another and the person will sacrifice anything for you? Tell me your relationship. ( 10 sentences)





4. Make a prediction of what you think wil happen next to Elie, his father, and his faith. ( 3 sentences)

Holocaust Denial- what do you think? 2-20-07

Holocaust denial- research it online, tell me what you find. What are your thoughts? How do you feel about it? Do you agree with what you find out?? (10 sentences)
****Also******many of you need to finish the other BLOGS!

Holocaust denial is the belief that the genocide of Jews and other minority groups during World War II — the Holocaust — either did not occur, or did not occur to the extent described by current scholarship.
Key elements of this belief are the explicit or implicit rejection that the Nazi government had a policy of deliberately targeting Jews, people of Jewish ancestry, and the Gypsies for extermination as a people; that between five and seven million Jews were systematically killed by the Nazis and their allies; and that tools of mass extermination such as gas chambers were used in extermination camps to kill Jews.
Most Holocaust denial claims imply, or openly state, that the Holocaust is a hoax arising out of a deliberate Jewish conspiracy to advance the interest of Jews at the expense of other peoples. For this reason, Holocaust denial is generally considered an antisemitic conspiracy theory. Holocaust denial has been illegal in many European countries since shortly after World War II, because it is seen as motivated by an antisemitic or neo-Nazi agenda.
In January 2007, the German government moved to criminalize Holocaust denial and the parading of Nazi symbols across the European Union and the United Nations General Assembly officially "condemns any denial of the Holocaust."

Blog 8 air raids

During an Allied air raid on Buna, during which every prisoner is supposed to be confined to his or her block. As the guards go for cover, everything is basically unguarded, even the eletric barb wire. The bombing lasts for over an hour.
This was another oppurtunity for them to run, Why didn't the prisoners make an escape? What was on their minds?
The prisoners, however, are filled with hope and joy because the rumors they have heard about German defeat on various fronts seem real and believable now. Elie's thoughts during the raid: "If it could only have lasted ten times ten hours!" p. 67 In the afternoon, the prisoners cheerfully worked.
What does Elie mean by his quote? Why were the prisoners happy during this air raid where bombing are flying and landing everywhere? They could possibly all get bombed and die, except they were very happy to have the raid? Use examples from the story ( 10 sentences)

chapter 4 night p. 72 blog 7

Although the prisoners are all so jaded by suffering that they never cry, they all break into tears as they watch the child strangle on the end of the noose.
Tell me why you think is so??
Eliezer comes to believe that a just God must not exist in a world where an innocent child can be hanged on the gallows. p. 72“Where is He?” Eliezer asks , and then answers, “He is hanging here on this gallows.”
Please intrpret this part of his narrative, what does it mean? What does this symbolize? How does it relate to him and his faith?
Because of this incident, what do you think will happen in the future, how do you think this will change him and his outlook toward life and the camps?
( 10 sentences)

Some of you are not giving me complete answers in your other BLOGs, make sure to answer all the questions and provide examples from the book( use quotations if you pull something from the story)! AGAIN, I will not give credit to those who do not complete their assignments!!

NIGHT p. 55-64

( 15) Eliezer is no longer a boy any more, but men as naked and equal as he had stated in the previous chapter. Elie has changed drastically since the beginning of the book. Now, In a world in which survival is nearly impossible, survival has become Eliezer’s dominant goal. He admits that he lives only to feed himself. p. 60 When his father is beaten, Eliezer feels no pity. Instead, he becomes angry at his father for failing to learn.
Please go back to chapter 1 and compare and contrast the boy Elie to the present Elie in this chapter. Provide at least 2 examples taken from the story, give page number!
Describe Elie's relationship with his father now compared to before the concentration camps.

Tell me a time when you have a hit a turning point in your life, where you realized that you must grow up now. How did it make you feel? What did you do about it?

Chapter 3 Night VOC

Put these words on your NIGHT powerpoint
look them up
WOrd- Define, parts of speech- your own sentence and a picture


1.Indifferently
2.Swine
3.Murmurs
4.Unremittingly
5.Paternal
6.Humanity
7.Inhuman
8.Oblivion
9.Tunic
10.Gypsies
11.Harangued
12.Convalescent
13.Colic
14.Clout
15.Reverie

Night chapter 3 blog 6

•(15 sentences) Elie is a deeply religious boy whose favorite activities are studying the Talmud and spending time at the Temple with his spiritual mentor, Moshe the Beadle. At an early age, Elie has a naïve, yet strong faith in God.
•However, it is difficult to have faith in God when one is constantly surrounded by death and inhumanity.
•In chapter 3, As Eliezer approaches the fiery pit, he feels anger towards a God who allows Nazi inhumanity to exist in this world: "For the first time, I felt revolt rise up in me. Why should I bless His name? The Eternal, Lord of the Universe, the All-Powerful and Terrible, was silent. What had I to thank Him for?" p. 42
•Although the only way to survive the concentration camps is to have faith that God will see you through, it is nearly impossible to believe in a God who allows concentration camps to exist in the first place.
•What other examples from chapter 3 can you add to display his revolt for God and his faith?
•Tell me an experience where your faith has help you go through a hard time or questioned your belief?

Blog 5

(15 sentences) When the prisoners first arrive at the camp, some of the young men want to rebel: "We've got to do something. We can't let ourselves be killed. We can't go like beasts to the slaughter. We've got to revolt." Despite these early feelings of rebellion, the prisoners rapidly become docile and fearful, and they follow the rules set out by the Nazi authorities.
Why do they obey people who are so obviously intent on destroying them? Why do they not just team up together and rebel?

Blog 4 p. 38-46

(15 sentences) In this section, Eliezer and the other prisoners are fully exposed to the horrible inhumanity of the Nazis. Due to the brutal methods of the Nazis, they are transformed from respected individuals into obedient, animal-like automatons. How does this transformation take place?
Take examples from the book using quotations, tell me your thoughts, and feelings.
Tell me an experience where you can relate to a time when your self pride, faith, ego, individuality or family has been striped away from you.

Reading Chapter 2: Fire

Madame Schachter is beaten while riding with the rest of the Jews in the cattle cars, people think she is mad as she screams “Jews, listen to me! I can see fire! There are huge flames! It is a furnace!” With these words we get a glimpse of what the future holds for these people. In 15 sentences describe the worst possible place that you have ever been or that you could imagine yourself in. Remember that this will available for the rest of the class to see so if you want to keep something private this is not the forum for it.

chapter 1 Theme: DEATH

As you read you will find that Death-- A theme which was used throughout the book. It was shown through the loss of loved ones.
In chapter 1, the topic of death seems to be reaccuring in the story.

Elie identifies the German soldiers by their steel helmets with the emblem, the death's head. It is the first impression Elie has of the German soldiers.
The Jews are not allowed to leave their houses for three days-on pain of death. The term, "on pain of death" is used several times in the narrative to emphasize the harsh reality of the German's threats.
As the Jews are forced to wear the yellow star, Elie's father replies, "'The yellow star? Oh well, what of it? You don't die of it....'" Elie responds, "Poor Father! Of what then did you die?" The yellow star symbolizes the mark of distinction that sends many Jews to their deaths. In retrospect, Wiesel feels that his father and the Jews of Sighet conceded to their deaths by submitting to every German decree. With each submission, they die a bit more.
As the ghettos are emptied by the deportation of the Jews, rooms that were once bustling with activity, lay open with the people's belongings still remaining. It is like an "open tomb" in that there is no longer any sign of life.

Read each of this examples that are taken from chapter 1, write, reflect on th author's theme of death. what do you think or feel? What is the tone,and mood the writer is setting?

After reading with your group answer about these:

SUMMARIZING
• What happened?
• What is essential to tell?
• What is the outcome?
• Who is involved?
• Why does this happen?
• What is the main point?
• What does the author want me to remember or learn from the passage?
CLARIFYING
• What was confusing?
• What words or phrases did you need more information on?
PREDICTING
• What will happen next?
• Why do you think the way you do?

Before you read NIGHT

What is the Holocaust?
The Holocaust was the systematic annihilation of six million Jews by the Nazi regime during World War 2. In 1933 approximately nine million Jews lived in the 21 countries of Europe that would be occupied by Germany during the war. By 1945 two out of every three European Jews had been killed. The European Jews were the primary victims of the Holocaust.
But Jews were not the only group singled out for persecution by Hitler�s Nazi regime. As many as one-half million Gypsies, at least 250,000 mentally or physically disabled persons, and more than three million Soviet prisoners-of-war also fell victim to Nazi genocide. Jehovah�s Witnesses, homosexuals, Social Democrats, Communists, partisans, trade unionists, Polish intelligentsia and other undesirables were also victims of the hate and aggression carried out by the Nazis.

Before we read, Look through the photos. tell me what you see, what you know, how you feel about them, and any questions you have in regards to this event.

Reading night p. 14-22

Reading standard 3.12
Analyze the way in which a work of literature is related to the themes and issues of the historical period

This will be a challenging read, but it will open your eyes to the horrors of the Holocaust. This is where you will be posting your responses to the reading. Remember to include your connections, personal reactions, feelings, comments and questions to the novel. This is your opportunity to write what you think about what is happening in the novel. Please have at least 15 sentences.