We began our study of Elie Wiesel's non fiction novel, Night, that details his deportation and imprisonment in Auschwitz. First, we viewed a short video on the liberation of Auschwitz which provided background and context using actual footage. We then looked at series of photographs of pre World War Signet, the town where Elie Wiesel lived before deportation.I pointed out scenes and areas that are depicted in first chapters of the novel. Last, we began a vocabulary exercise studying words particular to the events of the novel:
Aryan, Selection, labor camp, death camp, rabbi, Holocaust etc.