LC Reader Response #3

This is an individual assignment, but you may discuss the questions with others in your team.  Be sure that whatever answers you come up with are written in your own words.

1. Write 2 thesis statements for which you could write well-supported literary analysis essays. Remember when analyzing the literature we are always trying to determine the meaning of the literature. It is not a summary or you repeating what is already known. So in the thesis you need to tell us something that you can prove through evidence from the book. You need to write two thesis statements based off these literary elements:

1. Theme (i.e., Humanity to many come as a natural habit, in the novel "Night" inhumanity is proven to be something that can never ne justified).
2. Character (i.e., The holocaust is something that is imaginable, for survivor Elie Wiesel he is the true definition of hope and faith in the beauty of life.)

Group Reader Response LC#2

Group Reader Response LC #2:  Dialectical Journal Practice

This is an individual assignment, but you may discuss the questions with others in your team.  Be sure that whatever answers you come up with are written in your own words.

1. Critical Stance:  Wiesel chronicles the gradual dehumanization of the prisoners.
1. First, define “dehumanization”
2. Then, describe the behavior of the various prisoners that shows their gradual transformation from their normal behavior as human beings.
3. Last, describe the behavior of Eliezer, the changes that he notices and his response to them.
2. Dialectical Journal Entries

1. Find quotations for each of the comments you have made in question #1
2. Share these amongst group members so that you each have a complete DJ upon which you can rely for the following weeks’ discussions.

Group Reader Response LC#1

Group Reader Response LC #1: Dialectical Journal Practice

This is an individual assignment, but you may discuss the questions with others in your group. Be sure that whatever answers you come up with are written in your own words.

1. Critical Stance:
1. Discuss how Wiesel sets up the contrast between the panic of the Jews with each new decree or action of the government and their attempts to reassure themselves and to adjust to each new infringement on their freedom.
2. Dialectical Journal Entries

1. Find five direct quotations from the book that you feel is important to the story and provide each with you rown commentary.
2. You may use the same quotes as other group members but not all can be the same, and your comments must be different that other group members' comments.

Introductory Assignment for "Night"

With your partner, research and reflect on man's inhumanity to man and man's humanity.
You may browse the StopGenocideNow website or find other instances of both inhumanity AND humanity and share your responses.
Please include the following:

1. Your name and your partner's name
2. The source(s) of your information; include a clickable link.
3. Details or stories from your research that will help us, as a class, to explore the idea of "humanity."