Friday, July 17, 2009

ta-da- Final project- adobe photshop





§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

link to get some images for your collage
http://shamash.org/holocaust/photos/

Holocaust Collage

Your person Project --100 points

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

http://www.holocaustsurvivors.org/
http://www.yadvashem.org/


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

Last Section and the end of the book!!

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?
  7. 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. (8 sentences)
  8. 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? ( 5sentence)

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Deporation Video reflection

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)

part1 and part 2 chapter 8 QUESTIONS

Part 1: each 4 sentences at LEAST
  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?
part 2:

Slide 27
1.Slide 27
  1. 1.What fascinated Elie,why?
  2. 2.Was it easy to take showers, describe?
  3. 3.Describe how the father is now, what can you say about his spirit and his will to live, how has it changed? Example
  4. 4.Why does elie mean he says, “ I felt that I as not arguing with him, but with death itself.”?
  5. 5.Why was elie ashamed of? What was he thinking about?
  6. 6.What didn’t father eat anything?
  7. 7.Describe what is happening to Elie’s father.
  8. 8.How are you suppose to live in a concentration camp?
  9. 9.What was the last memory of elie’s father?
  10. 10.What happened to Elie’s father?
  11. 11.Did elie cry? Why or why not?
  12. 12.What does he mean “free at last”?

voc section 8

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

auschwitz

ch 7 voc words

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

section 7 questions part1 and part 2

Slide 26
part 1:
  1. How did Elie again help his father when they were on the train?
  2. Describe the scene Elie witnessed between the father and son.
  3. How many got out of the wagon? Where had they arrived?
  4. Explain how the father/son roles had been reversed in the case of Elie and his father?
  5. 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)

part 2
  1. Describe the setting.
  2. 2.What do you think elie meant when he said, “ to die today or tomorrow. What is the difference?”
  3. 3.If his father was to die, do you think elie would have the motivation to live?
  4. 4.What did the people do with the dead bodies?
  5. 5.Describe how life was like in this chapter for them. Give examples
  6. 6.What happened when a piece of bread was thrown into a wagon?
  7. 7.How do the german’s react to the stampede?
  8. 8.The son that let his father die over a piece of bread, what was he behaving like? Why do you think people were acting this way?
  9. 9.How old is elie now in this chapter?
  10. 10.Being his age and all things that are happening to him, could you relate to his feeling and troubles?
  11. 11.Who was Meir Katz? Describe him.
  12. 12.Who attacked elie, why?
  13. 13.What as this journey like for all the jews…describe it.
  14. 14.Where did they arrive to?
  15. 15.Make a prediction about the next chapter, do you think father or elie will dies?

Monday, July 6, 2009

ch 6 voc words

Look these words up
define, sentence, and picture on your night powerpoint

  1. faltering
  2. automatons
  3. midst
  4. famished
  5. parched
  6. indeterminate
  7. illusion
  8. condemned
  9. withered
  10. petrified
  11. distress
  12. privation
  13. staggering
  14. encumbrance
  15. semblance
  16. jostled
  17. bereaved
  18. rabbi

chapter 6 part 1 and part 2 questions



part 1:
  1. Tell me 2 things that you admire or disgust about any of the characters in the chapter and why? ( 5 sentences)
  2. 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)
  3. 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. ( 5 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."
part 2 questions:

Slide 16
1.Slide 16
    1. 1.What would happen to someone who stopped runing?
    2. 2.Who was Zalman? What happened to him?
    3. 3.What keeps elie running? What motives him to keep going?
    4. 4.Describe the setting of this chapter
    5. 5.Describe what elie feels about faith no.
    6. 6.How many miles have they marched already?
    7. 7.Describe what it was like to finally take a break. What did they do, how was it?
    8. 8.What did father and Elie do to keep from fallig asleep?
    9. 9.Give me an example where his father still looks after elie.
    10. 10.Who is rabbi eliahou, who was he looking for, what happened?
    11. 11.What do you think about Eliahou’s son, what would you have done?
    12. 12.How was Elie’s wounded foot? Did he continue to run?
    13. 13.Who did Elie crush? How was he??
    14. 14.Where did they stay at for 3 days? What was it like? Easy, nice….
    15. 15.What happened during the separation of Elie and his father?

chapter 5 questions part 1 and 2





part 1:
  1. 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)

  2. 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 similar relationship where you depend on one another and the person will sacrifice anything for you? Tell me your relationship. ( 8 sentences
  3. 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. (5 sentences)
  4. pick out 3 new voc words define, sentences and picture
Part 2 :
  1. How was the day different of any other? (Rosh Hashanah)
  2. Find 3 examples that show that elie’s faith is questioned.
  3. How was the solemn service?
  4. What was Tom kippur?
  5. Why does Elie not fast?
  6. Why do you think he has a feeling f great void?
  7. Where was elie transferred to ?what was his new job?
  8. What do the SS man do when they found a weak one?
  9. Describe what selection is like?
  10. Who was Dr. Mengele?
  11. Why was his dad in panic?
  12. What was the inheritance? Why would he need those things?
  13. Did his dad live? Who was not so lucky with the selection?
  14. What is going on with his foot?
  15. What journey were they going to go on?
  16. Why do they wash/clean their area before leaving?
  17. Based upon this chapter, how can you describe elie's dad, his attitude, and his relationship with his son? examples
  18. 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?

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

ch 4 questions part 1 & 2




Part 1
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 interpret 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)


Part 2 :
  1. 1.Describe their person in charge of the tent.
  2. 2.Which camp was known to be the best?
  3. 3.Why do you think they need to stay in quarantine?
  4. 4.What does he need to give up to get into a better unit? Does he, why or why not.
  5. 5.What was the dentist doing? Why?
  6. 6.Who is Juliek?
  7. 7.Describe what elie group’s job was?
  8. 8.Who were tossi ad Tibi?
  9. 9.Who was Alphonee, describe
  10. 10.Without any toothache why was elie taken to the dentist?
  11. 11.Did the dentist get what he wanted? Why or why not?
  12. 12.What happened with idek and elie? What kind of person is Idek?
  13. 13.Who was the girl? What does she do for him?
  14. 14.
    Why do you think Elie had no pity for his dad when he was getting beat?
  15. 15.
    How does he lose his gold crown?
  16. 16.
    What was Elie’s consequence for walking in on Idek and a girl?
  17. 17.
    Why didn’t people escape during the raids?
  18. 18.
    Were they afraid during the bombing? Why?
  19. 19.
    Where is god is questioned during the hanging. How does elie respond to that?
  20. 20.
    Do you think his religion faith is dying too?
  21. 21.
    What do the death of innocents represent to him?
Slide 8