Kyle Farnworth

Unit Plan Calendar of Events

Night by Elie Weisel

January February 2015

5

9
Who is Weisel?
- Oprah
interview
- Nobel Prize
speech
- Found poetry
Pool Holocaust
knowledge

Bystanders

12
Do Now:
Hangman
Reading Day
(p. 1-20)
- Identity
guided reading
HW: The
Failure to
Help (FH)

Perpetrators

19 NO
SCHOOL
MLK DAY

13 History
Day

14 Holocaust 15
Timeline
Activity
COMPUTER
- WWII lecture - 1933-1946
LAB
- images with
Political
no info and
cartoon activity summarize
what you see
HW: War
- try and map it
Within a War
Vocab activity

20
Discuss
reading quiz
-Close reading
activity
Auschwitz
Webquest

HW: Study
vocab
21
Challenge of
Memory
Reading Day
(45-62)
- Guided
reading

22 WWII
and
Holocaust
Test

- Identity
- Anti-Semitism
- Hitlers Rise
16 Research
paper due
Vocab Quiz
Seminar on
Bystanders and
the first part of
Night
HW: 21-44
reading journal

23 Obeying
Orders reading
Seminar on
Perpetrators
and Night
HW: 63-80
reading journal

Rescuers

26
Discuss
reading
- quiz
Begin
Schindlers
List (195 mins)
Guided
Viewing

HW: A
Commandant
s View
reading

Webquest
- Finish for
HW

27
Schindlers
List
Guided
Viewing

28
Schindlers
List
Guided
Viewing

HW: Written
response

HW: Written
response

Choosing to
Rescue reading

29

30
Portfolio due

COMPUTER
LAB
Discussion of
Schindlers List
Seminar on
Rescuers and
Night
HW: Finish Night

HW: Written
response
Justice

2 Discuss
reading
- Importance of
Memory
Nuremberg
Remembered
video

5-

Nuremberg
Power Point

Choices
Curriculum
Nuremberg
Simulation

Finish
simulation

Barometer
Activity (FH)
HW: We were
not supposed
to think

HW: A man
of words

Let the
World
Know (FH)

6
-Wrap Up
- Text rendering
Seminar on
Justice and
Night
Final thoughts