session plan
Field Activity #4: Diversity Affirmative/Culturally-Inclusive Lesson Plan
Title: Connecting the Significant Social Attitudes and Historical Events of Elie Wiesel’s Night to the Present Time
Grade Level(s): 8-12
Subject Area(s): Social Studies and Language Arts
Materials Needed: Class copies of novel Night, by Elie Wiesel, ABC news video from the internet, projector, The United States Holocaust Museum article, chalkboard, chalk, construction paper, markers, paper, pencil.
Objectives:
1. Students will identify and analyze significant social attitudes and historical events in Elie
Wiesel’s literary memoir, Night with 100% accuracy.
2. Students will respond to a video clip of an episode of the ABC News program, What Would
You Do, to compare attitudes in the episode to attitudes which allowed the Holocaust to occur with 85% accuracy.
3. Students will compare and contrast aspects of cultural views and historical events in World
War II Germany with current domestic/global events and their prior or personal knowledge of injustice with 100% accuracy.
4. Students will make connections between historical events, current events, video media, and literature with 95% accuracy.
TEKS:
§110.31 English, Language Arts and Reading
1 (A) determine the meaning of grade level academic English words . . .
1 (B) analyze textual context . . . to distinguish between denotative and connotative meanings of words. 1 (C) produce analogies that describe a function of an object or its description.
1 (E) use a dictionary, glossary or thesaurus . . . to determine or confirm meanings of words or phrases . . .
2 (A) analyze how the genre of texts with similar themes shapes meaning;
2 (C) relate the figurative language of a literary work to its historical and cultural setting.
6
Reading Comprehension of Literary Text/Literary Nonfiction . . . .
7
Reading Comprehension of Literary Text/Sensory Language . . . .
8
Reading Comprehension of Informational Text/Culture and
Title: Connecting the Significant Social Attitudes and Historical Events of Elie Wiesel’s Night to the Present Time
Grade Level(s): 8-12
Subject Area(s): Social Studies and Language Arts
Materials Needed: Class copies of novel Night, by Elie Wiesel, ABC news video from the internet, projector, The United States Holocaust Museum article, chalkboard, chalk, construction paper, markers, paper, pencil.
Objectives:
1. Students will identify and analyze significant social attitudes and historical events in Elie
Wiesel’s literary memoir, Night with 100% accuracy.
2. Students will respond to a video clip of an episode of the ABC News program, What Would
You Do, to compare attitudes in the episode to attitudes which allowed the Holocaust to occur with 85% accuracy.
3. Students will compare and contrast aspects of cultural views and historical events in World
War II Germany with current domestic/global events and their prior or personal knowledge of injustice with 100% accuracy.
4. Students will make connections between historical events, current events, video media, and literature with 95% accuracy.
TEKS:
§110.31 English, Language Arts and Reading
1 (A) determine the meaning of grade level academic English words . . .
1 (B) analyze textual context . . . to distinguish between denotative and connotative meanings of words. 1 (C) produce analogies that describe a function of an object or its description.
1 (E) use a dictionary, glossary or thesaurus . . . to determine or confirm meanings of words or phrases . . .
2 (A) analyze how the genre of texts with similar themes shapes meaning;
2 (C) relate the figurative language of a literary work to its historical and cultural setting.
6
Reading Comprehension of Literary Text/Literary Nonfiction . . . .
7
Reading Comprehension of Literary Text/Sensory Language . . . .
8
Reading Comprehension of Informational Text/Culture and