At the beginning of class today, everyone did some brainstorming in their writing journals on everything they knew about World War II and The Holocaust. Everyone then shared out their responses and we used this information to create some general categories of knowledge around the subject.
Names for these categories were put on some large poster paper. Working with a partner, everyone then rotated around to each poster brainstorming what information they had according to each category.
Next week, we are going to use this brainstorm to identify and organize what we know about WWII and The Holocaust. As we continue looking at non-fiction texts for this unit we are going to map what we learn and ask questions based on what we don't know about WWII and The Holocaust.
I gave everyone a collection of sticky notes to use while reading Elie Wiesel's Night. While reading, individuals should look for new facts or information and then take note of that information on the sticky and put the sticky note in the book where they found that information. We will track this new information by putting it on the wall.
Homework:
Read Night according to the class reading schedule.
While reading, identify and put a sticky note in the book when you come across some new information.
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