Teacher: Mr.

Ryan Martorello

Date: 09/23/2017

Book: Night

By: Ellie Wiesel

Published: 1956

Grade Level: High school 11th grade US History

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Multicultural Themes

Acceptance of differences

Empathy and Understanding

Educational Standards

1. SS.9-12.WH.18: Interpret historical events from a variety of historical and cultural

perspectives including but not limited to: capitalists vs. laborers, imperialists vs.

indigenous groups, positions of power, class, race, ethnicity, gender.

2. SS.9-12.WH.15: Examine occurrences of and reactions to oppression, human

rights violations, and genocide across world history.

Objective

Students will be able to interpret the events happening in the book, Night, and compare and

contrast them in a Venn Diagram to the conditions of enslavement of African Americans with

90% accuracy.

Materials

The books, Night (specific pages will be marked for the students to skip directly to the

events occurring) and US History textbook

A piece of big construction paper (where the Venn Diagram will be placed)

Writing Utensils (Pencils or pens)

Procedure
 1. Introduce: Present the book, Night, and ask them the question, Have you ever been

forced to do your own work in immediate conditions? If you were performing a task

that required a groups help, would you be able to complete it if they were taken from

you?

2. Read: Specific sections of the book Night and the sections in the textbook with relating

topics

3. Discuss:

What might happen to Elie in Night?

How would you think this story would have been written if it was through a

Germans point of view?

How would being enslaved and then being released make you feel after?

What emotions were going through the slaves?

When were the slaves freed in the U.S.?

Activities

1. Students will read individually the sections of their textbook and then the sections

designated in the book Night.

2. Students will then gather into groups and grab a piece of big construction paper to draw

their Venn Diagram on for half of the class time.

3. During the time students are working on the assignment, I will be calling out random

students from each group and placing them into different groups allowing for
 understanding of how being placed in a new environment will affect how they can

quickly react to new people and new conditions to complete assignment.

Evaluation

Teacher checks all Venn Diagrams to check accuracy and acknowledges with the students

the differences and similarities between each subject.