Signed syllabus sheet due today  2 points (or zero)
College essays...I will return a few more today, and I will return a few more tomorrow, but I will probably not get all of them returned until mid to late next week.  Your "final" draft (with any revisions you chose to do) will be due September 29.  Simply make any needed changes and annotate three of them, explaining three of the changes you made and why. (10 points for annotated final draft on September 29)

Night preface reflections...

1.      Take 10 minutes to write a reaction or reflection to some passage in the preface.  Simply choose a quote that grabbed your attention, something you connected with, write the quote down word for word, and then write a paragraph reaction.  Due in 10 minutes.  We will share with partners and I will later do a visual check (5 points)

But while I had many things to say, I did not have the words to say them...I watched helplessly as language became an obstacle. (viii-ix)

As smart as Wiesel is, he feels like his words are inadequate to the task at hand: describing something inexplicably horrible, human conduct that should be unthinkable, and yet it happened.  How can you make someone feel something they have never experienced, especialy if that something seems nearly unbelievable to a sane, healthy, compassionate person?  

2.  We will read the Foreword by Francois Mauriac...Read aloud with students.  Write a connection or a reaction to this, too.

Talmud
Kabbalah
Buchenwald
Birchenau

The Talmud

Buchenwald