Bridge Builder Role Sheet
Name:
Martha Washington
Book:
“Night” by Elie Wiesel
Group:
The Revolutionaries
Pages:
56-65
Your job is to build bridges between the events of the book and other people, places, or
events in school, the community, or your own life. Look for connections between the
text, yourself, other texts, and the world. Also, make connections between what
has happened before and what might happen as the narrative continues. Look for the
characters’ internal and external conflicts and the ways that these conflicts influence their
actions.
Event from Book
On page 27, Wiesel says,
“Confidence soared. Suddenly
we felt free of the previous
nights’ terror. We have
thanks to God.” This was in
Auschwitz.
Event from Book
Types of Connections:
Text to self
Text to text
Text to world
Types of Connections:
Text to self
Connection
This reminds of when something bad happens
and everyone is desperate to have something
good happen instead, so they pretend nothing
bad is going on. People start smiling the minute they think things are better. The truth is
they’re just lying to themselves.
Connection
Text to text
Text to world
Event from Book
Types of Connections:
Text to self
Connection
Text to text
Text to world
Before
Internal
Conflict:
an issue
inside yourself
What has happened previously in the
book?
Predict what will happen as the book
continues.
Make an
educated
guess about
what might
happen in
the future
Discuss a character’s internal and/or external conflict, and the ways that conflict has
External Conflict: an issue between
influenced or will influence his or her actions.
a character and something outside of the
character, like another character, nature,
society, etc.
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