1. one thing i have learned from reading this novel is that i should never think that my life is rough or that nothing is going my way because the members of the Holocaust lived the worst possible life. With all the torture and death that went on makes me realize how good my life is and that I should never take it for granted. 

Elie communicates how terrible everything was and how it doesn't make sense on why it all happened. 

I learned that God is important until you find a reason to not believe. 
At the beginning of the story Elie was a very religious person who had a strong faith and stuck to it. As the story goes on Elie starts to lose his faith because of everything going on because he just can't find God and he doesn't know why God would be putting him through this. 

2. I think Elie would tell the Thomas More community to live each second of your life like its your last because they truly don't know what a rough life is. Also to never forget the Holocaust and remember and honor the people who were it in whether they survived or not because everyone got tortured and had to deal with pure pain. He would always say that keep your faith for as long as you can. 

Class List of Themes:

• no matter how tough life gets just keep going
• the human race is capable of horrors beyond belief
• live your life to the fullest because you never know what could happen next
• humans are capable of inhuman acts
• many possessions can be remove from us, but relationships are lasting
• you shouldn't judge people from their religion or where they come from because it can only lead to bad things
• even if you don't like a person treat them with respect
• learn from historical experiences
• value the simple things in life
• we never know how strong we are until we are put into situations where you have to be strong
• the human body can only take so much stress
• don't hate; it's okay to dislike. Hate only leads to things everyone is going to regret
• never complain about your life. someone always has it worse than you
• Through rough times really rely on relationships to get you through
• life is short; cherish it.
• anything is possible 
• keep your faith and hold strong even when it seems impossible
• those that look only to the past and present are certain to miss the future
• never keep up on life because life never gives up on you

What would you do?

1) yes, because sacrificing one life is better then sacrificing multiple. If the lives of others is in danger then kill the person thats putting them in danger.

2) Kill the child because no mother would want to see their newborn baby die on the spot. If the mother wants the child to be born "stillborn" then they should do what's best for her.

3) I would not escape because i would always want to be their for my kids no matter what. If they were there for each other through everything so far one person cannot just leave the other one hanging all by himself when hes already weak.

Chapter 3

Concentration Camps:

• If you told the truth and they didn't like it they would change it. One person said they were 50 but they wanted him to be 40 so he had to pretend to be 40.
• You had to lie about your job.
• They killed some people by burning them.
• The barbers shaved every hair on their body
• They throw all their clothes into piles.
• They had to dig holes and carry sand

Class Discussion:

• Smelt like death
• Crossroads in the center of the camp-selection processes 
• Dr. Mengele 
• SS officers every few yards
• Babies were being burned in a ditch
• Second barracks were two stories and cement 
• Sign "Work Makes You Free"
• Crematoriums

Night=darkness blanketed his life

Dehumanization:

• Forced to remove clothing
• Beat the prisoners
• Brand the number on their arms
• Transferred in the cattle cars
• Stuff in barracks 
• Shaving heads
• Taking valuables
• Gave them unfitting clothes

Stein of Antwerp:

• Elie lies to Stein to give him the will to live because his family knows he is alive. 
• Stein disappeared after he was given the "real news"

Fire/Flames

The woman who sees the flames is about 50 years old with a 10 year old son.
she's the one who first recognized the fire and started screaming about it.
The fire might symbolize the Nazis that are trying to destroy the Jews.

Class Discussion:
Mrs. Schacter-

• reveals madness of the incident
• foreshadows fire
• hate breeds more hate

Fire-

• ovens and cremation of Jews
• death
• burning of religion, culture, memories
• hate
• hell
• chaos
• conflicts
• friction

Class List of Foreshadowing

• Foreign Jews removed from sighet
• Dirty smoke when leaving on the cattle car
• Wearing star of David
• Moishe the beadle – Jews were being slaughtered, Jews were digging their own graves and shot into them
• "What do you except? That’s war"
• Ghetto- Jews were enclosed into a ghetto
• Transported into cattle cars

Foreshadowing in Night

• Foreign Jews taken away from Sighet
• When they had to wear gold stars on their clothes
• Jews were being shot into graves in the forest.
• The ghetto were Jews were enclosed

Night Scavenger Hunt

1. The Holocaust is the mass slaughter of 6 million Jews, and 5 millions others by the Nazi's and Hitler. It happened because the Nazi's had different religious/political views, and because these people failed to be of the Aryan race, which is blonde hair and blue eyes. It occurred in Europe, mainly in Germany, Poland and Austria.
2. The "final solution" plan was a code name for the Nazi's total extermination of the Jews, gypsies, and other's they were persecuting.


3. A "ghetto" was a city district in which the Germans concentrated the Jewish population and forced them to live under horrible conditions.


4. The living conditions in the ghettos were crowded. Jews had to wear the yellow star of David on their clothes to show they were Jewish.


5. Concentration Camps were where Jews were taken to live, and essentially be killed.


6. 1) To incarcerate real and perceived enemies of the Nazi regime and the German occupation authorities in Poland for an indefinite period of time.
    2) To have available a supply of forced laborers for deployment in SS-owned, construction-related enterprises (and, later, armaments and other war-related production)
    3) To serve as a site to physically eliminate small, targeted groups of the population whose death was determined by the SS and police authorities to be essential to the security of Nazi Germany. 


7. Approximately 1.1 million Jews were deported to Auschwitz. Approximately 200,000 other victims were deported. At least 960,000 Jews were killed. Other victims included approximately 74,000 Poles, 21,000 Gypsies, 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war, and 10,000-15,000 members of other nationalities (Soviet civilians, Czechs, Yugoslavs, French, Germans, and Austrians.


8. The Jews who were assigned to work in the factories had a much greater survival chance because factory workers were considered too valuable to kill, at least while they were still able to work.
Elie Wiesel worked at Monowitz.

The Holocaust

What I know:
Hitler
killed Jews
concentration camps
torture
world war 2
anne frank's diary

What we know:

• US troops found the first concentration camps in 1944
• Hitler hated Jews
• Hitler wanted the Aryan race- blonde hair, blue eyes
• Hitler was also prejudice to the gypsies, gays, and mentally challenged. 
• Anne Frank wrote a diary about it
• Scientific experiments were performed on the Jews
• Dr. Menegele performed the experiments
• Experiments included splitting twins, cutting out people's eyes, transplanting faces...
• In concentration camps, crying meant mentally unstable and could cause death
• There were both death camps and work camps
• There were mass killings and gas chambers
• The Holocaust took place in Europe, mainly Germany, Poland, and Austria
• 6 million Jews were said to have been killed, and 11 million people total were exterminated during the Holocaust

Choice Book Report

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9-sentence paragraph

In Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery", irony is illustrated through the community event of the lottery. Initially the reader begins to assume that the lottery is an event where something is won, but as the story progresses, one realizes that the lottery is a death sentence.At the beginning of the story everything seemed like it was going perfectly throughout the town and everyone was happy and all the kids were playing together. "The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green." (1)  At the end of the story this town is not a happy place. "it isn't fair, it isnt right!" Mrs.Hutchinson screamed and then they were upon her.(8) If you won the lottery you were sentenced to death by having everyone in town throw rocks at you from only about a foot away. This is how Mrs. Hutchinson dies and that is why she is screaming about the lottery not being fair. Mrs. Hutchinson realizes that this is not a fair deal because you can live or die by chance and that should not decide your death and it shouldn't be as painful as it is.

By The Waters of Babylon

claim: it is better not to take things in too fast all at once.
quote: "truth is a hard deer to hunt. if you eat too much truth at once you may die of the truth"
commentary: he is saying that if take it too much at once it could kill you because your not actually thinking about what your doing.

"There will come soft rains"

claim:
Future technology can help us out.
quote:
"The room was acrawl with the small cleaning animals, all rubber and metal. they thudded against chairs, kneading the rug nap, sucking gently at hidden dust. the house was clean"
commentary:
Little robots that are made in the future can just clean our house for us so we have less work to do. if you are at work and your busy your house can get clean without you even doing it. technology makes our lives easier in some ways.

By The Waters of Babylon

Prereading:
i think we can sometimes because sometimes we just want to get things going as fast as possible where we just take any information we get and put it into our work but other times we really have to sit down and think about it so it takes a longer period of time. Occasionally we just get information thrown at us and we have to take it in fast because we don't have the time to sit and think about it.
Plot Reaction:




Questions: What leads them to believe in spirits?

"There will come soft rains"

Prereading:
The world will be high technology all around. everything will be top notch because of the way and the speed that technology moves now.

Time:                                                                          what happens?
7:00                                                                            time to get up
7:09                                                                            breakfast time
8:01                                                                            go to school
8:30                                                                            eggs were shrived
9:15                                                                            time to clean
10:00                                                                          sun came out
10:15                                                                          garden sprinklers came on
12 noon                                                                      dog whined
2:00                                                                            a voice sang
2:15                                                                            dog was gone
2:30                                                                            bridge tables sprouted from patio walls.
4:30                                                                            nursery walls glowed.

Questions: why does the author think this is what the world will be like in 2026?
why isn't there actually people rather than voices?

Quotation Sandwich

Claim: The society Harrison Bergeron lives in is not at all equal.

Quote:
"Hazel, as a matter of fact, bore a strong resemblance to the Handicapper General, a woman named Diana Moon Glampers."
pg.135

Commentary:
If everyone in the society is equal then there cannot be generals because generals are much higher than regular people. Generals control everyone else, and if everyone was equal no one would control anyone else.

Harrison Bergeron

summary:
Harrison Bergerson, the son of Hazel and George was handicapped. Harrison was a genius and an athlete. if you are too beautiful you have to wear a mask because everyone has to be equal. people are made equal from devices that bring them down to a normal level in everything like their social life or ability to play sports. it could be things like weights masks glasses or radio transmitters.

Harrison Bergeron

Author: Kurt Vonnegut

Equality- everyone is equal and should be treated with a fair chance.

Plot/Reaction:

Who is Harrison Bergerson?

How does Harrison challenge the government's handicap program?

List 2 questions you have..

Quote: List 1 significant quote that reveals something meaningful about the short story.

Man vs Nature

Exposition:
Tom cares about his job too much and spends all his time working on this yellow sheet of paper.

Rising Action:
His wife, Clare, goes out while Tom stays home and works.
When Tom closed the door after saying goodbye to Clare the yellow sheet of paper flew out the window.
Yellow sheet of paper was splattered against apartment building.
Tom acted on impulse and jumped out the window of his 11 story high apartment building to retrieve the paper.
As Tom was hanging on the ledge he was paralyzed with fear.
Tom tried to drop coins to get someone's attention but it did not phase anyone.
When Tom finally made it back to his window it was closed and couldn't be opened from the outside.

Climax(Turning Point):
Tom realizes the only option he has to be safe again is too break the glass with his fist and go crashing into his living room.
This would either work or he would fall off the building.

Falling Action:
Tom lands safely into his living room.
He realizes that putting his life on the line for work wasn't worth it.
He gets his top coat and goes to find his wife because he got his priorities straight.

Resolution:
As he was leaving the door he saw the yellow sheet of paper fly off the desk again and out the window but he just watched it and laughed.


Symbols:
yellow sheet of paper: a symbol of all Tom's work and a new grocery store line.
window- represents his safety and his only way of surviving.

Short Story Journal

This story is about a man named Tom Benecke. Tom was all about working hard all the time and his wife always came second to him. when he got this job working at a grocery store he wanted to be on top so badly that he began to neglect his wife. one day his yellow sheet of paper flew out the window onto a building. this one sheet of paper meant everything to Tom because it had everything he had been working on that was needed on it. Tom decided that it was necessary to retrieve this paper so he put his life on the line and climbed the building. he ended up having to break the window to get back safe in the house and in the end realized that his wife was more important to him so he went to find her and ended up loosing the yellow sheet anyways. 

why did tom care so much?

Why didnt Tom use something heavier to weigh it down the second time around?

did Clare ever find out about all this?

"Tom Benecke burst into laughter and then closed the door behind him." this means that Tom finally got his priorities straight and lightened up a little about work. 

A Round Character

Definition: a round character is a character that is fully developed and changes throughout the story/movie.

Example:

Woody from Toy Story

"Show Dont Tell"

Telling: it was boring
Showing:
As i sat there watching the never ending football game my mind wondered in the clouds. the score was lower that it had ever been and i was clearly exhausted. my eyes struggled to stay open as my team truely had no chance. it was like an ant trying to beat a monster. it was never-ending.

Telling: i was surprised
Showing:
it was my sweet 16 birthday and all i had planned was to go out to dinner. i was disappointed and upset. i went out to a fancy restaurant, had a delicious dinner, and then my parents took me back home. when i walked in the door all the lights were dimmed like a suspicious crime scene. when i took my first step towards my room a ton of people jumped out of nowhere, probably more than i could count. my heart was beating faster than ever as i smiled from ear to ear and my eyes sparkled like the beating hot sun. that was the biggest suprise in my entire life.

10 events in my life

Age 1- my golden birthday
Age 4- got my tonsils and adnoids taken out.
Age 4- my very first day of school.
2nd Grade- my first communion and reconciliation.
4th Grade- my school merged with 4 others.
4th Grade- my first time vacationing out of state.
5th Grade- my first volleyball and basketball games.
6th Grade- my first school dance.
7th Grade- ran 7 miles for PODS.
9th Grade- my first high school pep rally and retreat.

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If i had 6 months to live i would want to make it the best possible. I would go skydiving like I always wanted to. I would probably have a party with all my friends that i've ever known or been close to. I would buy a trampoline for these last 6 months so i could enjoy it while it's there. The next thing i would do is buy a plane ticket and take a flight to vacation in either Hawaii or Australia because those are places i've wanted to go before I die. I would have fun with my family because they are the ones that have always been there. I would probably just live life to the fullest because i don't have very much time.