Night+Activities

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Build Up Your Knowledge Bank! ** Presenting Your Findings  **  Decide how you're going to work on these tasks. It's your choice whether you work individually or in pairs. Whatever format you choose bear in mind that it will need to be uploaded to your wikipage within this space. **You must be uploading your progress as you go as this will be monitored.** Some ideas for the presentation of your findings - Song Speech, Podcast, Visual Aid, Multimedia presentation - It's your choice!! **Criteria for Presentations -** * You must submit at least one task from each theme topic * It must demonstrate your on going progress, each should include text, music (sound) and pictorial representations Thorough responses to these questions will assist you in preparing for the SAC (remember the SAC is at the end of week 2)  ** __ Themes __ **  **// Looking at the key themes listed below, select at least one activity from each theme to help gain a better understanding of the key concepts in the text. //**
 * Sources must be acknowledged
 * 1. Night and Darkness What does // night // mean?**

a) Explore the concept of night in music, film, books, or poetry to find as many examples as you can of night to explain why the book is called **Night.**
b) What is meant by the "The dark night of the soul" and how does this relate to Elie?  What is night to Elie?


 * 2. Faith **

Elie's quote makes reference to faith and race. What do you understand him to mean by this quote? How would you define what faith means in the context of Night?
b) Use a timeline to document the signicant events surrounding Elie's faith throughout the text. Faith may be a positive influence in his thinking or there may be time where it is questioned. Consider the conflict Elie experiences with his faith (positive and negative) and document these events and their outcomes. //(Use Inspiration, word or create a poster.)// c) What role did faith play in the text? 3. Dehumanisation/ Inhumanity **  a) What does Elie see when he looks in the mirror at the end of the book? Why is this significant? How is this an example of dehumanisation?      b) How did the German population dehumanise the Jews. Give examples of this and explain the motives. In what circumstances did the Jews allow themselves to be dehumanised and what was the outcome - List and explain at least three cases of this.

** 4. Relationships

**a) Describe Elie Wiesel as a young boy in Sighet. How does he change by the end of the novel ? How does Elie's relationship with himself alter throughout the text?    b) Describe Elie's relationship with his father as it evolves through the text. Describe at least three significant markers that show the ebb and flow of their relationship. c) Select at least one other signigicant relationship in the novel (other than Elie and his father) and describe its importance to the text.