NIGHT Project
Final NIGHT Project
Choose ONE of the final project options to extend and demonstrate your knowledge of Elie Wiesel's Night and of the historical context that surrounds Wiesel’s story. Each project gives you the chance to display your understanding of Wiesel's story while experimenting with the new technology available to us in class. Choose your project to match your individual talents, interests, and ability to complete it during the time provided (1 day of introduction and 5 in-class workdays).
Your grade will be determined by the critical thinking and overall quality demonstrated by the finished product. In addition to the project you will display to your classmates, each project will include a short written component that will be submitted to your teacher in order to clearly connect your project to the memoir Night. Remember to follow the directions carefully as you create your project and ASK QUESTIONS when you have them. All students will exhibit projects in class on “Museum Day,” Wednesday, December 15.
1. Glog Multimedia Display: Imagine that you must create a multimedia display about Night for students who have never read the book. You will create a Glog (an interactive online poster) to illustrate your understanding of the memoir and what you have learned about the Holocaust. It will include images, quoted lines from the text, your own written explanations, graphic elements offered in Glogster, music, and maybe even video. Click on the Glog tab on the left for additional information about this project option.
2. Collection of Found Poems: Found poems are created by taking words, phrases, details, and passages from the story and recreating them into a themed poem of your own making. This project blends the words of Wiesel and your own creative writing skills. Create a collection of poems to compliment the historical context of Night, themes and issues of the Holocaust, or literary elements we have studied. You will display your poems in your choice of a PowerPoint, Movie Maker film or Glog. Click on the Found Poems tab on the left for additional information about this project option.
3. Short Film and Soundtrack: You will use Movie Maker to create a soundtrack and a short film of your own making inspired by Night. Your goal is to tell the story of Night in an extremely condensed format, using images, music, and words (both from the text and songs you select for the soundtrack), to help convey your vision of the story. Your film will be composed of images you pull from online sources, lines from the text that inspired your film, and, of course, music to accompany key parts of the narrative. Click on the Film and Soundtrack tab on the left for additional information about this project option.
4. Quote Collection: Compose a collection of quotations that relate to the historical context of Night and/or themes and issues of the Holocaust. These quotes should not come from the book itself, but should be related to the issues explored in the book. You will compile these quotes in a PowerPoint presentation, Glog, or Movie Maker film, including images and graphic elements to make an attractive display. For each quote you choose, you must provide a 2-3 sentence explanation of how the quote relates to a literary element of Night or a major theme/issue of the Holocaust explored in the memoir. Click on the Quote Collection tab on the left for additional information about this project option.
5. Ghetto/Liberation Newspapers: You will use your knowledge of Night and your imagination to create the front pages of two newspapers: a ghetto newspaper and a paper issued following liberation. Using what you know about the plot and setting of Night and Holocaust history, you will write a collection of articles and include images and captions that relate to the stories you write. The ghetto newspaper must reflect the events leading to the deportation of Wiesel and his community from Sighet. The liberation paper will give you a chance to incorporate details from Wiesel's time in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buna, and Buchenwald into stories about atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis and the struggles faced by survivors following liberation. Click on the Newspapers tab on the left for additional information about this project option.
2. Collection of Found Poems: Found poems are created by taking words, phrases, details, and passages from the story and recreating them into a themed poem of your own making. This project blends the words of Wiesel and your own creative writing skills. Create a collection of poems to compliment the historical context of Night, themes and issues of the Holocaust, or literary elements we have studied. You will display your poems in your choice of a PowerPoint, Movie Maker film or Glog. Click on the Found Poems tab on the left for additional information about this project option.
3. Short Film and Soundtrack: You will use Movie Maker to create a soundtrack and a short film of your own making inspired by Night. Your goal is to tell the story of Night in an extremely condensed format, using images, music, and words (both from the text and songs you select for the soundtrack), to help convey your vision of the story. Your film will be composed of images you pull from online sources, lines from the text that inspired your film, and, of course, music to accompany key parts of the narrative. Click on the Film and Soundtrack tab on the left for additional information about this project option.
4. Quote Collection: Compose a collection of quotations that relate to the historical context of Night and/or themes and issues of the Holocaust. These quotes should not come from the book itself, but should be related to the issues explored in the book. You will compile these quotes in a PowerPoint presentation, Glog, or Movie Maker film, including images and graphic elements to make an attractive display. For each quote you choose, you must provide a 2-3 sentence explanation of how the quote relates to a literary element of Night or a major theme/issue of the Holocaust explored in the memoir. Click on the Quote Collection tab on the left for additional information about this project option.
5. Ghetto/Liberation Newspapers: You will use your knowledge of Night and your imagination to create the front pages of two newspapers: a ghetto newspaper and a paper issued following liberation. Using what you know about the plot and setting of Night and Holocaust history, you will write a collection of articles and include images and captions that relate to the stories you write. The ghetto newspaper must reflect the events leading to the deportation of Wiesel and his community from Sighet. The liberation paper will give you a chance to incorporate details from Wiesel's time in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buna, and Buchenwald into stories about atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis and the struggles faced by survivors following liberation. Click on the Newspapers tab on the left for additional information about this project option.
