Graham's Class

Note: Watch Oprah tomorrow at 4pm for an interview with Elie Wiesel!

For info/links to the old interview of Oprah and Wiesel, click here.

Posted by Graham at 3:38 PM | Permalink

Our rough agenda for the last weeks of school is as follows:

Today: Read to page 85
Tomorrow: Read to page 95, watch Oprah segment on Elie Wiesel
Wed: Finish book, begin rough draft
Thurs: Finish rough draft
Friday: (Yearbook day) Finish final draft

NEXT WEEK:
Mon-Wed: Schindler's List
Thurs: Test review
Fri: Test review/ Fourth period final

LAST WEEK
Mon: Third period test
Tues: Second period test
Wed: First period test

Posted by Graham at 11:02 AM | Permalink

• Read to page 75, continue with worksheets
  
• Go over "sad-eyed angel" scene (pgs 58-62)
  

Posted by Graham at 3:03 PM | Permalink

• Reading day!
• Reading goal: page 65
  

Posted by Graham at 3:05 PM | Permalink

• Read newspaper article and Elly Gross poems
  
• Read to page 43 in Night
  
• Answer worksheet as you go
• Watch video: "A Teenager's Account of the Holocaust."
  

Posted by Graham at 3:17 PM | Permalink

• Read through to page 25 and answer questions as you go
• After progress reports, review relationships (applicable to last page of worksheet)

NOTES:

1. There are five types of conflicts:
1. man vs. man
2. man vs. self
3. man vs. society
4. man vs. fate
5. man vs. nature
   
2. These conflicts can be seen through relationships:
1. Elie and his father
2. Elie and the way he sees himself
3. Elie and the way he see humanity
4. Elie and God
5. n/a (man vs. nature doesn't really fit...you can see this through Elie's struggle for survival and against starvation, but there's not really a relationship there)
   
3. Before the Holocaust, the relationships are thus:
1. Elie's father is more focused on his work than his family; he didn't approve of his son's ideas and dreams; he is "unsentimental" and unfeeling
2. Elie considers himself holy, but perhaps lonely; he feels a little unloved by his father; he focuses on God; he is very much in the spiritual world
3. Elie thinks all people are basically good, or at least humane
4. Elie has absolute "profound" faith in God
   
4. After the Holocaust, the relationships are thus:
1. Elie and his father draw closer together because they have no one else; they depend upon each other; they act like a real family; family becomes the most important thing
2. Elie begins to question and doubt God; he definitly no longer believes that God always answers prayers and is good
3. Nazis lack humanity and are thus beastial; the Jews are divided into those who remain humane and those who have been made beastial because of the Nazis
4. Elie questions God (see above)
   

Posted by Graham at 2:41 PM | Permalink

Sorry it took me so long to post everyone!

Quick recap of the last few weeks:

April 11: Lanval (work due: Lanval worksheet)
April 12: "Chevrefoil" and "Tristan and Isolde"
April 13: Allegories and Perceval
April 14: 1st and 2nd period: work on rough drafts of novels; movie
April 17-21 = SB
April 24: Review allegory, introduce Dante's Inferno
April 25: Cantos 1-3 of Dante's Inferno
April 26: Canto 34 of Dante's Inferno; review: "How is it an allegory?"
April 27: Test review, time-line of literary eras
April 28: Medieval test and review of literary eras, "The Lorelei"
May 1: Cyrano de Bergerac, act 1
May 2: Act 2
May 3: Act 3
May 4: Act 4
May 5: Act 5 and quiz
May 8: Go outside and see "6 Million Dots"; read individual accounts of the Holocaust (ID cards from museum)
May 9: See Holocaust presentation in Little Theater
May 10: Listen to Gizella Abramson's account of the Holocaust
May 11: Start working on individual newsletter articles
May 12: Complete, print, and put in drop box newsletter articles
May 15: Begin reading night; look over and analyze two poems from Holocaust victims; review meaning of "a fate worse than death," and "eyes are the window to the soul." First 5 pages will be read in class, and first 6 questions will be answered in class.
May 16: Read through at least page 25-30 of Night, go over progress reports, Review conflicts and relationship

Posted by Graham at 2:22 PM | Permalink