The Man Who Helped Change a Neo-Nazi's Mind

You will listen the story above next week.

First 15 mins...Add this to the end of your "stations" work from yesterday (perhaps write it on the back of or the bottom of a page...I will collect this towards the end of class.)

Chapter 7 connection: 
1. Find a passage in chapter 7 that moved you/captured your attention.  
2. Using the edge of a book, draw a neat line down the center of a portion of your paper. 
3. Write the passage out on the left-hand side (include the page number); 
4. On the right-hand side, write a paragraph-long connection/reaction: your connection might be personal, societal/cultural, literary or artistic in nature. 

Personal: this passage in some way reminds you of something you experienced, witnessed, or have thought about.

Societal/cultural: This passage reminds you of some other similar moment or situation in politics, history, current events or some other cultural/societal arena.

Literary/artisitic: This passage reminds you of something you have read, seen, heard in literature or the arts (music, painting, sculpture, movies, etc.)

EXAMPLE CONNECTION PASSAGE AND CONNECTION

Passage from Night

Personal, societal/cultural, literary or artistic connection

“I was dragging my emaciated body that was still such a weight. If only I could have shed it! Though I tried to put it out of my mind, I couldn’t help thinking that there were two of us: my body and I. And I hated my body” (85).

Sometimes my body (and my brain, which is, of course, part of my body and is influenced by fatigue and hunger and bio-chemical reactions) feels like a separate entity, and not always a helpful one.  Sometimes my body doesn’t work well – my knees are breaking down big time – or it gets sick or really tired (yet I wake up each morning at 5:00 and can’t get back to sleep!) and I feel like it is just not cooperating with me. My brain – perhaps the most important part of my body – often has trouble focusing or staying calm or happy, and it seems to chatter incessantly, often about stuff that, frankly, stresses me out.  But then, like Elie, I sometimes remember that I am not my body, I am not even my mind. They both change – my flesh, my thoughts, they change - but something in me never changes. Something in me will always be. My body and mind are part of me, but they don’t define who I am. I am something bigger than both of them combined.

No homework

Wednesday - Finish book in class
Thursday - Last Night Stations
Friday - In-class Narrative writing