Composition 9 - Rea
Name: ​
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Date: ​
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Hour: ​
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Suspense in ​
Night ​
[CCSS.ELA.9-10.W.3]
In order to create a good narrative, you must build suspense. ​
Suspense​
is ​
the intense feeling that a reader
goes through while waiting for the outcome of certain events. It basically leaves the reader holding their breath
and wanting more information. Writers use a variety of ​
methods of building suspense including:
❖ chronological events​
- events are arranged in the order in which they occured.
❖ foreshadowing​
- a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
❖ flashback​
- interruptions that writers do to insert past events in order to provide background or
context to the current events of a narrative.
Another way that writers build suspense is by building rising action after the introduction of the major conflict.
In this chapter, Wiesel creates suspense by describing several situations in which he is in danger.
Directions: ​
In your group, read your assigned pages of Chapter 4 of ​
Night ​
(pp. 47-65) and answer the
corresponding questions. Look carefully and discuss your answers. Be prepared to share your answers.
GROUP 1:​
Pages 47-49
GROUP 2: ​
Pages 49-51
_________________________
_________________________________________.
2. What do the head of the camp and the tent leader
6. Why is Louis mad? _______________________________
have in common?___________________________
_____________________________________________________
3. What is the ironic part about Elie’s determination
7. When Elie’s work Kommando arrives at the
to keep his shoes?
warehouse, he says that the Meister paid as much
__________________________________________________
attention to them as “a ________________ receiving a
__________________________________________________
delivery of __________ ____________.”
4. Which part of the medical checkup was the most
8. Who else worked with them?
extensive and why?
_____________________________________________________
__________________________________________________
9. Yossi, Tibi, and Elie have dreams (or plans) to do
__________________________________________________
what? ______________________________________________
GROUP 3: ​
Pages 51-53
GROUP 4:​
Pages 53-55
__________________________________________________
concentration camp?
11. Why does the dentist get hanged?
_________________________________________________
__________________________________________________
15. Elie says, “That was what life in a concentration
12. Explain what Elie means when he says, “The
camp had made of me.” What does he mean? How
stomach alone was measuring time.”
has he changed?
__________________________________________________
__________________________________________________
__________________________________________________
__________________________________________________
13. Copy down a quote that show how the French girl
16. Why is Franek beating Elie’s father on a daily
tries to comfort Elie.
basis?
__________________________________________________
__________________________________________________
1. According to the inmates, which camp is the best?
10. What three things are the prisoners given?
5. The Kapos pick the men in the same way that
14. How did the French girl escape being sent to a
Composition 9 - Rea
GROUP 5: ​
Pages 55-58
GROUP 6: ​
Pages 59-61
____________________________________
__________________________ and the “hundreds of
18. What strange thing happens a “few days before
wolves” are the ______________________________.
the Poles left?”
22. How does the man move toward the soup?
__________________________________________________
_________________________________________
__________________________________________________
23. Choose one sentence that truly shows Elie’s
19. What sentence (evidence) from the TEXT shows
desperation for the war to end at ANY COST:
that Elie was scared before the lashings?
__________________________________________________
__________________________________________________
__________________________________________________
__________________________________________________
24. What is the word for the “assembly point”?
20. Circle which of Elie’s five senses are damaged by
_________________________________________
the lashings. Look at the passage for evidence. Sight /
What is the word for the “head of the camp”?
Sound / Touch / Taste / Smell
_________________________________________
GROUP 7: ​
Pages 61-63
GROUP 8: ​
Pages 64-65
to be a(n) _____________________ and a(n)
__________________________________________________
________________________.
__________________________________________________
26. Why would “the youth” refuse to be blindfolded?
31. What did the SS want to achieve by torturing the
__________________________________________________
Dutchman and the pipel? Were they successful?
27. Which two words qualify as “foreshadowing”?
__________________________________________________
“_________________ __________________.”
__________________________________________________
28. The young boys who ______________ the
__________________________________________________
Oberkapos are called ________________.
32. Two pieces of evidence that show that even the
29. The Dutchman and his pipel were well-liked and
Lagerkapo knew it was wrong to hang a boy:
kind toward the prisoners; in fact, they tried to....
__________________________________________________
__________________________________________________
__________________________________________________
17. What nickname do the inmates give to Elie?
25. The two purposes of the first execution are for it
__________________________________________________
21. In the metaphor, the “two lambs” are the
30. Why wasn’t the Dutchman hanged?
Composition 9 - Rea
ANSWER KEY
GROUP 1:​
Pages 47-49
GROUP 2: ​
Pages 49-51
Buna
might choose cattle, or merchandise.”
1. According to the inmates, which camp is the best?
2. What do the head of the camp and the tent leader
have in common?​
They both like children.
​
5. The Kapos pick the men in the same way that ​
“one
6. Why is Louis mad? ​
“[…] they would not let him
play Beethoven; Jews were not allowed to play
3. What is the ironic part about Elie’s determination
German music.”
to keep his shoes?
7. When Elie’s work Kommando arrives at the
“Later, they were taken from me anyway. In
warehouse, he says that the Meister paid as much
exchange for nothing, that time.”
attention to them as “a​
shopkeeper​
​
receiving a
​
4. Which part of the medical checkup was the most
extensive and why?
delivery of ​
old rags​
.”
8. Who else worked with them?
The dental examination because they were
Polish civilians and French women
looking for gold teeth/crowns.
9. Yossi, Tibi, and Elie have dreams (or plans) to do
what? ​
Leave Europe/Board the first ship to Haifa
GROUP 3: ​
Pages 51-53
GROUP 4:​
Pages 53-55
a blanket, a washbowl, and a bar of soap
concentration camp?
11. Why does the dentist get hanged?
She kept it a secret that she spoke German and
​
10. What three things are the prisoners given?
14. How did the French girl escape being sent to a
“It appeared that he had been dealing in the
was Jewish.
prisoners’ gold teeth for his own benefit.”
15. Elie says, “That was what life in a concentration
12. Explain what Elie means when he says, “The
camp had made of me.” What does he mean? How
stomach alone was measuring time.”
has he changed?
He lost track of the days because he was so
His anger was directed at his father for not
entirely focused on the next “crust of stale
avoiding trouble, instead of at Idek.
bread.”
16. Why is Franek beating Elie’s father on a daily
13. Copy down a quote that show how the French girl
basis?
tries to comfort Elie.
“My father had never served in the military and
ANY OF THE FOLLOWING TWO LINES: “She was
could not march in step.”
smiling her mournful smile as she slipped me a
crust of bread. She looked straight into my eyes
[…] then her face lit up and she said, in almost
perfect German: ‘Bite your lips, little brother…
Composition 9 - Rea
ANSWER KEY
GROUP 5: ​
Pages 55-58
GROUP 6: ​
Pages 59-61
“little general”
cauldrons of soup​
and the “hundreds of wolves” are
17. What nickname do the inmates give to Elie?
18. What strange thing happens a “few days before
the Poles left?”
21. In the metaphor, the “two lambs” are the ​
two
the ​
prisoners​
.
22. How does the man move toward the soup?
Elie found Idek in the warehouse with a young
He was seen “crawling, snakelike”…
Polish girl.
23. Choose one sentence that truly shows Elie’s
19. What sentence (evidence) from the TEXT shows
desperation for the war to end at ANY COST:
that Elie was scared before the lashings?
“But I was glad nevertheless.”
“I felt the sweat running down my back.”
24. What is the word for the “assembly point”?
20. Circle which of Elie’s five senses are damaged by
“Appelplatz”
the lashings. Look at the passage for evidence. ​
Sight
What is the word for the “head of the camp”?
/ Sound / Touch ​
/ Taste / Smell
“Lageralteste”
GROUP 7: ​
Pages 61-63
GROUP 8: ​
Pages 64-65
to be a(n) ​
warning​
and a(n) ​
example​
.
“He was transferred to Auschwitz and never
26. Why would “the youth” refuse to be blindfolded?
heard from again.”
He wanted the executioner and Nazis to have to
31. What did the SS want to achieve by torturing the
look him in the face.
Dutchman and the pipel? Were they successful? ​
They
25. The two purposes of the first execution are for it
27. Which two words qualify as “foreshadowing”?
30. Why wasn’t the Dutchman hanged?
wanted “names” of prisoners who were involved
“​
Except once​
.”
in the rebellion, but they did not give up a single
are called ​
pipels​
.
32. Two pieces of evidence that show that even the
28. The young boys who ​
worked for​
the Oberkapos
name/number.
29. The Dutchman and his pipel were well-liked and
Lagerkapo knew it was wrong to hang a boy:
kind toward the prisoners; in fact, they tried to....
“This time, the Lagerkapo refused to act as
help the prisoners plan a sabotage/rebellion.
executioner” and “His voice quivered.”
Composition 9 - Rea
Group 1​
​
(pp. 47-49)
Group Members: ​
________________________________________________________________________________________
Directions: ​
In your group, read the pages aloud (either take turns reading or one person may read).
Then summarize the pages with 2-3 bullet points, selecting the ​
most important​
things that happened.
Finally, answer the questions assigned to your group and record them neatly on your group paper. Be
prepared to present the answers to the class.
SUMMARY OF READING:
1. According to the inmates, which camp is the best? _________________________
2. The head of the camp and the tent leader have this in common:
________________________________________________________________________________
3. What is the ironic part about Elie’s determination to keep his shoes?
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
4. Which part of the medical checkup was the most extensive and why?
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
Group 2​
​
(pp. 49-51)
Composition 9 - Rea
Group Members: ​
________________________________________________________________________________________
Directions: ​
In your group, read the pages aloud (either take turns reading or one person may read).
Then summarize the pages with 2-3 bullet points, selecting the ​
most important​
things that happened.
Finally, answer the questions assigned to your group and record them neatly on your group paper. Be
prepared to present the answers to the class.
SUMMARY OF READING:
5. The Kapos pick the men in the same way that ____________________________________.
6. Why is Louis mad? ________________________________________________________________
7. When Elie’s work Kommando arrives at the warehouse, he says that the Meister paid
as much attention to them as “a ________________ receiving a delivery of __________
____________.”
8. Who else worked with them? _____________________________________________________
9. Yossi, Tibi, and Elie have dreams (or plans) to do what?
______________________________________________________________________________________
Group 3​
​
(pp. 51-53)
Composition 9 - Rea
Group Members: ​
________________________________________________________________________________________
Directions: ​
In your group, read the pages aloud (either take turns reading or one person may read).
Then summarize the pages with 2-3 bullet points, selecting the ​
most important​
things that happened.
Finally, answer the questions assigned to your group and record them neatly on your group paper. Be
prepared to present the answers to the class.
SUMMARY OF READING:
10. What three things are the prisoners given?
__________________________________________________
11. Why does the dentist get hanged? __________________________________________________
12. Explain what Elie means when he says, “The stomach alone was measuring time.”
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
13. Copy down a quote that show how the French girl tries to comfort Elie.
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
Group 4​
​
(pp. 53-55)
Composition 9 - Rea
Group Members: ​
________________________________________________________________________________________
Directions: ​
In your group, read the pages aloud (either take turns reading or one person may read).
Then summarize the pages with 2-3 bullet points, selecting the ​
most important​
things that happened.
Finally, answer the questions assigned to your group and record them neatly on your group paper. Be
prepared to present the answers to the class.
SUMMARY OF READING:
14. How did the French girl escape being sent to a concentration camp?
_________________________________________________
15. Elie says, “That was what life in a concentration camp had made of me.” What does
he mean? How has he changed?
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
16. Why is Franek beating Elie’s father on a daily basis?
__________________________________________________
Group 5​
​
(pp. 55-58)
Composition 9 - Rea
Group Members: ​
________________________________________________________________________________________
Directions: ​
In your group, read the pages aloud (either take turns reading or one person may read).
Then summarize the pages with 2-3 bullet points, selecting the ​
most important​
things that happened.
Finally, answer the questions assigned to your group and record them neatly on your group paper. Be
prepared to present the answers to the class.
SUMMARY OF READING:
17. What nickname do the inmates give to Elie? ____________________________________
18. What strange thing happens a “few days before the Poles left?”
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
19. What sentence (evidence) from the TEXT shows that Elie was scared before the
lashings? _________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
20. Circle which of Elie’s five senses are damaged by the lashings. Look at the passage
for evidence. Sight / Sound / Touch / Taste / Smell
Group 6​
​
(pp. 59-61)
Composition 9 - Rea
Group Members: ​
________________________________________________________________________________________
Directions: ​
In your group, read the pages aloud (either take turns reading or one person may read).
Then summarize the pages with 2-3 bullet points, selecting the ​
most important​
things that happened.
Finally, answer the questions assigned to your group and record them neatly on your group paper. Be
prepared to present the answers to the class.
SUMMARY OF READING:
21. In the metaphor, the “two lambs” are the __________________________ and the
“hundreds of wolves” are the ______________________________.
22. How does the man move toward the soup? _________________________________________
23. Choose one sentence that truly shows Elie’s desperation for the war to end at ANY
COST: ____________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
24. What is the word for the “assembly point”? ________________________________________
What is the word for the “head of the camp”? _________________________________________
Group 7​
​
(pp. 61-63)
Composition 9 - Rea
Group Members: ​
________________________________________________________________________________________
Directions: ​
In your group, read the pages aloud (either take turns reading or one person may read).
Then summarize the pages with 2-3 bullet points, selecting the ​
most important​
things that happened.
Finally, answer the questions assigned to your group and record them neatly on your group paper. Be
prepared to present the answers to the class.
SUMMARY OF READING:
25. The two purposes of the first execution are for it to be a(n) _____________________ and
a(n) ________________________.
26. Why would “the youth” refuse to be blindfolded?
__________________________________________________
27. Which two words qualify as “foreshadowing”? “_________________ __________________.”
28. The young boys who ______________ the Oberkapos are called ________________.
29. The Dutchman and his pipel were well-liked and kind toward the prisoners; in fact,
they tried to.... ___________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
Group 8​
​
(pp. 64-65)
Composition 9 - Rea
Group Members: ​
________________________________________________________________________________________
Directions: ​
In your group, read the pages aloud (either take turns reading or one person may read).
Then summarize the pages with 2-3 bullet points, selecting the ​
most important​
things that happened.
Finally, answer the questions assigned to your group and record them neatly on your group paper. Be
prepared to present the answers to the class.
SUMMARY OF READING:
30. Why wasn’t the Dutchman hanged?
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
31. What did the SS want to achieve by torturing the Dutchman and the pipel? Were
they successful?
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
32. Two pieces of evidence that show that even the Lagerkapo knew it was wrong to
hang a boy:
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________