Objective: The students will write original Haiku for the chapters of Night.
1. Night Chapter 1 Quiz
2. Haiku discussion
3. Night Faction Discussion
4. Night Chapter 2
What is Credibility? Credibility
means “believability.” It’s how well a
reader can believe what an author is writing.
In non-fiction works, it is important that the author is “credible” in
what he writes.
Factors that affect credibility:
1. How long ago
the events happened. Does the author
remember everything exactly as it happened?
2. What did the
author add to his piece to make up for what he forgot?
What is faction? It is a new term that many critics have been
using. Many authors of non-fiction add
details to their works that may not be completely true. They may do this because they do not
completely remember all the details, or they may just want to make their work
more interesting to readers.
Night: Fact or Faction
Elie Wiesel
entered the gates of Auschwitz in 1944, near the end of WWII. He was later liberated by the americans in 1945 at the age of 16. He moved to Paris, after the war and began writing. In 1954, he
had 862 pages of writing in Yiddish. 50 years later the book has been
translated into 30 languages, and now is only 115 pages. It remains unclear
how much of Night is memoir. Wiesel has called it his deposition, “but scholars have had difficulty
approaching it as an unvarnished account”. (Amazon).