Hunter English III A Period 7 Off-Site Learning Packet Day 3

Instructor: L. Hunter Date: Learning Packet Day 3

English III Period: 6, 7, 8 periods

State Indicator/Competency

RL.11-12.1 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.

RL.11-12.2a Determine two or more themes of a text and analyze their development over the course of the

text, including how they interact & build on one another.

RL.11-12.3 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).

RI.11-12.6 Determine an author’s perspective 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.

Instructional Objectives:

Students will be able to define what verbal irony is with 100% accuracy.

Students will be able to identify why the first sentence of the selection from Night is an example of verbal

irony with 80% accuracy.

Students will be able to answer comprehension questions based on the excerpt of Night with 80%

accuracy.

Materials:

Pens/Pencils

Computer

PPT

Projector

Excerpt from Night

Night Discussion Questions

Activities:

The students will be reading an excerpt from Night and answering discussion questions that pertain to that selection.

Students will be able to define what verbal irony is with 100% accuracy.

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% accuracy.

In the selection, Elie Wiesel says, “The SS gave us a fine New Year’s gift.”

The New Year’s gift that Elie and the other prisoners were given was a selection.

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.

This is an example of verbal irony because the selection process is by no means a gift for any of the

prisoners.

The only way it would be considered a gift is if the prisoner wanted to be put out of his misery.

Students will be able to answer comprehension questions based on the excerpt of Night with 80%

accuracy.

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.

HW: Finish Night worksheet. Methods of Instruction:

Independent

Assessment:

Blizzard Bag #3 (10 points)

Hunter English III A Period 7 Off-Site Learning Packet Day 3 Name__________________________________

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.