Bella continued analyzing and discussing the novel Where the Crawdads Sing. She made predictions for the outcome of the court trial using text for support. She wrote on the theme of prejudice as seen in the court scene citing text for support of her argument.
Bella continued discussing and analyzing Where the Crawdads Sing. She made predictions for the protagonist's motives. Bella then reviewed SAT vocabulary studied during the semester preparing for her assessment.
Today was Cabo's last session. He completed an essay assessment asking him to describe a character from each novel that he read this semester and explain their positive and negative characteristics as he saw them. He also completed an assessment on the SAT vocabulary studied this semester.
Matthew took notes on the book's two symbolic motifs-night and fire- as well as on two predominant themes-loss of faith and the father/son relationship . We then parsed Wiesel's comment in the preface that the source , if not the cause, of the Holocaust was the childish faith in God, the vain trust in man and the dangerous illusion in the goodness of Mankind. We discussed what caused Wiesel's cynicism .In this regard, we noted that the original title of the book was "The World Remained Silent. ". Matthew commented on situations today where the world tends to take little action when crimes against humanity are reported such as the situation in the Ukraine . We then studied the text and located examples of the illusions of Wiesel's community that contributed to their passivity in the face of the deportation to the camps. Last, we addressed some of the study guide questions bearing on our class discussion such as Wiesel's purpose in writing "Night" and why he originally could not find a publisher . Hw-study for tomorrow's final exam.
