English III
Blizzard Bag #3
Instructor: McAtee
English III
Date: Blizzard Bag #3
Period: 5B, 6, 8
State Indicator/Competency
Reading Strand: Reading for Literature: Key Ideas & Details: Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and
analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact & build on one another to produce a
complex account; provide an objective summary of text.
Reading Strand: Reading for Literature: Key Ideas & Details: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis
of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters
uncertain (10).
Reading Strand: Reading for Literature: Key Ideas and Details: Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and
analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact & build on one another to produce a
complex account; provide an objective summary of text (2).
Reading Strand: Reading for Literature: Key Ideas and Details: Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to
develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are
introduced and developed) (3).
Reading Strand: Reading for Information: Craft and Structure: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in
which the rhetoric and particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness or
beauty of the text (6).
Instructional Objectives:
v Students will be able to define what verbal irony is with 100% accuracy.
v Students will be able to identify why the first sentence of the selection from Night is an example of verbal irony with 80%
accuracy.
v Students will be able to answer comprehension questions based on the excerpt of Night with 80% accuracy.
Materials:
v Excerpt from Night
v Night Discussion Questions
Activities:
The students will be reading an excerpt from Night and answering discussion questions that pertain to that selection.
v Students will be able to define what verbal irony is with 100% accuracy.
Ø Verbal irony is when a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is
the opposite of the literal meaning.
Students
will be able to identify why the first sentence of the selection from Night is an example of verbal irony with 80%
v
accuracy.
Ø In the selection, Elie Wiesel says, “The SS gave us a fine New Year’s gift.”
Ø The New Year’s gift that Elie and the other prisoners were given was a selection.
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Selection was when a medical officer would inspect the prisoners and decide whether or not the prisoners
would continue to live or be sent to their deaths.
Ø This is an example of verbal irony because the selection process is by no means a gift for any of the prisoners.
Ø The only way it would be considered a gift is if the prisoner wanted to be put out of his misery.
v Students will be able to answer comprehension questions based on the excerpt of Night with 80% accuracy.
Recall
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To what does Wiesel refer when he says, “The SS gave us a fine New Year’s gift”?
What advice did the head of Wiesel’s block offer before the prisoners passed before the SS officers?
Why was the narrator’s father told to stay behind in the camp?
Who are Tibi and Yossi?
What is the resolution or final outcome of this selection?
Interpret
6. Why is the first sentence of the selection an example of verbal irony, where someone says one thing and means
another?
7. Why might the block leader have lied to the men who were selected telling them nothing would happen to
them?
8. Explain why Wiesel’s father gives him the knife and spoon. What does this “inheritance” tell you about the
state of their lives?
9. Of what importance might Tibi and Yossi be to Elie Wiesel and to his retelling of these events? Use details
from the selection in your response.
10. Describe the range of emotions that Wiesel might have experienced on the day he was separated from his
father.
HW: Finish Night worksheet.
v Methods of Instruction:
Ø Independent
v Assessment:
Blizzard Bag #3 (10 points)
Night Worksheet
Recall
1. To what does Wiesel refer when he says, “The SS gave us a fine New
Year’s gift”?
2. What advice did the head of Wiesel’s block offer before the prisoners passed before the SS officers?
3. Why was the narrator’s father told to stay behind in the camp?
4. Who are Tibi and Yossi?
5. What is the resolution or final outcome of this selection?
Interpret
6. Why is the first sentence of the selection an example of verbal irony, where someone says one thing and means
another?
7. Why might the block leader have lied to the men who were selected telling them nothing would happen to
them?
8. Explain why Wiesel’s father gives him the knife and spoon. What does this “inheritance” tell you about the
state of their lives?
9. Of what importance might Tibi and Yossi be to Elie Wiesel and to his retelling of these events? Use details
from the selection in your response.
10. Describe the range of emotions that Wiesel might have experienced on the day he was separated from his
father.