Important Notes:
** Did you bring your $7 for the field trip tomorrow?
** You need to arrive at school NO LATER THAN 7:45AM tomorrow morning. Eat some breakfast before you come. We'll have sack lunches and we'll also stop at fast food somewhere on the way home. Bring extra money if you think you're going to want to buy a lot of food.
** If you are NOT going on the field trip tomorrow, your PACKET IS DUE BEFORE YOU GO HOME TODAY.
Here are your assignments as you go this morning:
1) Vocabulary: In your blog, you need to complete the following:
Blog Title - Week 2 Vocabulary Paragraph
Assignment - For your vocabulary paragraph, you need to read the following quote by Elie Weisel. You will then write a 5 SENTENCE PARAGRAPH to respond to his quote - what do you think it means? How does it relate to the book Night? Why does it seem important? In your response, you must use your three vocabulary words: Structure, Perceive, and Impact.
Weisel's Quote:
"What is indifference? Etymologically, the word means "no difference." A strange and unnatural state in which the lines blur between light and darkness, dusk and dawn, crime and punishment, cruelty and compassion, good and evil.
Of course, indifference can be tempting -- more than that, seductive. It is so much easier to look away from victims. It is so much easier to avoid such rude interruptions to our work, our dreams, our hopes. It is, after all, awkward, troublesome, to be involved in another person's pain and despair. Yet, for the person who is indifferent, his or her neighbor are of no consequence. And, therefore, their lives are meaningless. Their hidden or even visible anguish is of no interest. Indifference reduces the other to an abstraction."
2) Book Rating - In your blog, you need to rate the novel Night by Elie Weisel.
Blog Title - Night - Book Rating
Assignment - Rate the book on a scale of 1-5 (where 0 is you hated the book and 5 is you loved it). In THREE SENTENCES, tell me why you either enjoyed or did not enjoy the book. I am not grading you on whether or not you liked the book, but rather, your explanation.
Consider the following questions in your response: Why did you enjoy/not enjoy it? What did you learn from it? What would you like to read next time?
3) Social Studies/History - Go to Edmodo. Today is your final day learning about concentration camp liberation and the aftermath of the Holocaust. Tomorrow is the Museum, so I want you to be well prepared for what we'll see there.
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