Night by Elie Wiesel

Night is a memoir by a Nobel-Prize-winning author who survived Auschwitz during World War II, when he was a teenager. After his escape from a concentration camp and a ten-year silence, he decided to document the inescapable past. The result is his account of the inhumanity of the genocide faced by European Jews during World War II. He focuses on the destructive effects of prejudice and the capacity of human beings to perpetrate and survive atrocities. He stresses the importance of never forgetting the Holocaust.

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Novel/Drama curriculum units contain complete lesson plans with preliminary and follow-up work, teacher notes with plot summary, background, and rationale, ready-to-use worksheets, and suggested answers for student questions. These study guides encourage the development of thinking, reading, speaking, research, and writing skills as well as critical thinking skills such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.