DO NOW:When the young boy is hanged, a prisoner asks, “Where is God now?” Eliezer thinks to himself, “He is hanging here on this gallows.…” What does this statement mean? Is it a statement of despair? Anger? Or hope? OR

What situation made you start believing in God or made you disbelieve in God? Describe a situation/event that you witnessed or experienced that was so awful that it made you stop believing in God or doubt that God existed.

TWO-CIRCLES DISCUSSION1. Page Pair : (52/53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61/62)

2. Each pair of students will have 5 minutes to work together to:

a. Review your assigned pageb. Select a passage/quote that is

important to the meaning of the novelc. Prepare a question to ask another

student about this section of the novel

3. Throughout this activity the inner circle will rotate clockwise every 4 minutes, students opposite one another will share their passages and questions, and record the responses in their scrapbooks.

Small Group Activity: Resistance in NightIn your groups, discuss the following:What does the word resistance mean to you?

Some people insist that “armed resistance” is the only form of legitimate resistance. Others stress the idea that resistance requires organization. Still others argue that resistance is more about the will to live and the power of hope than it is about either weapons or organization. Which view is closest to your own?

3. In your groups:

Use your ideas about and definitions of resistance to decide whether each of the following is an act of resistance (be prepared to defend your answers!):

—Eliezer’s refusal to let the dentist remove his gold crown—Eliezer’s decision to give up the crown to protect his father—The French girl’s decision to speak in German to Eliezer after he is beaten—The prisoner’s choosing to die for soup—The prisoners who attempted to stockpile weapons, for which they were later hanged

In each act of resistance that you identified, who or what are the prisoners resisting?

In this section (pgs. 45-62) of the novel, what did you WITNESS? Select 3 Quotations that are events/situations from pages 45-62 of Night that help you to answer the following questions (Respond to all of the questions for each of the three quotations):ｷ Describe what you are ‘witnessing’ in this passage.ｷ How would you respond in similar situations?ｷ Based on what you have witnessed in this passage, what have you learned:

1. about your own life2. about who we are as people3. about who we must be/become

ｷ What do you think our responsibility is to one another based on what you ‘witness’ through Elie’s eyes?