Wednesday In-class Comments

1. Please read the posts from the last few days.
2. Comment on as many posts as you wish.
3. When commenting, you must:

• put your name
• write it as a letter starting "Dear _______ (person who wrote the initial post)"
• summarize the post you are writing about ( "Your post said....")
• clearly identify your purpose (disagree, agree, find interesting...)
• explain your reasons
• follow up with a question ("Can you further explain...", "Why did you say...")
• use formal standard written English

4. Check for any letters to you and respond to them if necessary.

Tuesday's Discussion Groups: A debate

Last night, not everyone described their conversations well enough for readers to understand the discussion. Please be more descriptive. Also, some of you have really careless mistakes that are posted online for the world to see. Be sure to show your best work.

Suggestion: Look at Marina's post from Monday to see how detailed your post should be.

Topics for Tuesday night (please number your responses):

1. List the questions your group discussed today in class.
2. Describe how the group interacted.
3. Describe part of the discussion where someone disagreed with what was being said. Describe the different points of view in detail.
4. What did you learn from the disagreement/debate?

5. Read the blog posts from Monday night and:

• identify a post you find most interesting
• explain why you find it interesting

Monday's Class Discussion: An interesting comment

Please describe an interesting point that was made in your group today. Be sure to:

1. tell which question you were discussing
2. describe the interaction
3. summarize what you learned or felt was an interesting analysis
   

Four Sources and Summaries from Voices of the Holocaust

This post is not due until Friday April 24th. You must:

1. identify your color character as assigned in class
2. list the best four sources that give you insight into your color characters voice/lack of voice during the Holocaust (author, title, date of publication, date you viewed it, url if needed)
   
3. summarize each source
4. explain what you learned about your color character from each source
5. How much blame should your color character take (a lot, some, a little, none)? Why?
   

The Final Chapter: Elie's Voice

"The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me" (Wiesel 109).

1. For whom did Elie Wiesel write this book?
2. Why did he call it Night?

Chapter Eight: Voices of the past

1. Whose voices do you think Elie Wiesel remembers the most from the time when his father was dying? Why?

2. If it had been you, whose voice would haunt you the most? Why?

Chapters six and seven: voices of death and betrayal

1. What keeps Elie and his father alive?
2. Why does the author write about Rabbi Eliahou and his son (86)?
3. Why does the author write about Juliek and his violin?
4. How do others outside of the Jews react to the running, dying, starving, empty band of Jews? Be sure to cite three reactions from these chapters.
5. Explain what each cited incident from #4 says about how others reacted to the Holocaust.