Note-Taking: Night
Your notes for reading Night will count for a QUIZ grade!
Each day after silent reading, take a few minutes to add details and thoughts to your Chapter notes for Night. These will help you with discussion activities, as well as your Night assessment.
Summaries of a chapter should be 1-3 sentences that tell the important events in the chapter.
Key quotations are those that seem most significant to the chapter, either to a character, a conflict, or a theme
Questions/Reflections: What are you thinking or wondering after having read this section? 1-2 notes is sufficient.
Chapter 1
Summary: Elie, the main character lived in a town called Sighet in Transylvania. He was Jewish boy. His tutor, Moshe was deported …show more content…
Do you see it? And the flames, do you see them? (Yes, we did see the flames.) Over there, that's where they will take you. Over there will be your grave’”(Wiesel 30/31).
Questions/Reflections:
Why did that man help Eliezer and his father avoid the crematorium?
Did the workers have any records/documents of the inmates?
Chapter 4
Summary: Elie is called to the dentist to get his gold crown removed. Elie fakes an illness to delay the removal but later finds out the dentist was hung because he was selling/trading the gold crowns for his own use. He is later beaten by Idek and is consoled by a French worker, who he meets years after the war. The prison foreman, Franek, notices Eliezer's gold crown and demands it. He refuses so Franek beats Eliezer's father and he gives up the crown. Then, Elie catches Idek having sex with a Polish girl so Idek brutally whips him and warns Elie that if he said a word to anyone about this, he will suffer.
Key quotation: “I remember that on that evening, the soup tasted better than ever…” (Wiesel 63).
Questions/Reflections:
How much was the gold crown worth?
What could it get you?
How did the dentist get caught and how did he manage to keep all the crowns for himself without alerting the …show more content…
How much longer were our lives be lived from one 'last night' to the next?" (Wiesel 83).
Questions/Reflections:
How will Eliezer's foot hold up when they are leaving the camp?
Will the Russians going to come in time before the people of the camp leave?
Chapter 6
Summary: The prisoners are forced to run many miles in one night during a blizzard and those who cannot keep running are shot. They stop in a small village where Eliezer and his father keep each other awake to avoid death. Rabbi comes into the shack where Eliezer and his father are and asks where his son is but once the Rabbi leaves, Eliezer remembers that he saw his son while running but it was too late to tell the Rabbi. Later, another selection occurs and Eliezer's father is sent to the death side filled with all the weak people but, Eliezer creates a diversion and his father switches