09.05 - Moishe the Beadle

At the beginning of class today, I wrote the following sentence on the board:

"They called him Moishe the Beadle, as if his entire life he had never had a surname."

In their writing journals, everyone then brainstormed as many questions as they could about that sentence. Questions that people came up with included the following:

We then read the first page of the story and discussed which questions people could answer about Moishe the Beadle with just the information on the first page. The first page of the book and the answers the class came up with are included below.

We then began discussing what sort of information we could figure out about the rest of the story just from this first page. We will continue doing this tomorrow.

At the end of class, everyone signed out individual copies of the book Night and got reading schedules for the book.

Homework:

Read pages 21 - 46 in Night (you are not required to read the introduction yet).