Click here to listen to the studycast on the Grammar section of the Midterm Exam Study Guide. Be sure you have your Grammar book and Study Guide out, along with a pen or pencil.  Write small and be ready for class!  No excuses!

As we finish the novel Night, we need to begin to think through the answer to one of the first questions I asked as we started.  If you were the shoes of our main character, how would you respond?  What is the difference between his faith and yours that could make the difference?  There should be a difference.  Listen to this podcast and think about your response to that question. Click here to listen to this podcast.  Return to Edmodo to complete your assignment.

In the first three chapters of Night Eliezer has gone through a major shift in his religious beliefs and his faith in God.  His experiences begin to challenge the faith he had in a good and faithful God.  While he does not necessarily question the existence of God, he begins to seriously question the goodness of God.  He finds it hard to believe that a good and just God could allow something like this to happen. Click here to listen to this podcast.  In this podcast, listen to quotes from the...

Click here to get the notes about what sources you must use in your research paper and how to make bibliography cards. You must be familiar with these notes in order to find the correct book and internet sources.  These notes will also help you format your bib cards correctly.  You are responsible for knowing this information as we conduct research in the library! If you have questions, ASK!

In chapters 1 & 2 of Night, the author recounts the days of his life leading up to his family's deportation to Auschwitz.  He shares how life slowly begins to change, while the changes go unnoticed until it is too late.  He talks about the terror of the train ride to Auschwitz, the prophetess Madame Schachter, and the beginning of his life as one long night. Click here to listen to the podcast on Night chapters 1-2. Be sure to check Edmodo for any follow up assignments after listening to...

Night is a novel about a young Jewish boy's experiences during World War II.  He relates how he and his family end up being deported to Auschwitz, a death camp in southern Poland.  He talks about his experiences in this camp and others, as he is forced to work and watch himself slowly die inside.  From his earliest experiences in the concentration camps, we will see how his faith in God is lost, and his life becomes an unending night. Click here to listen to the podcast titled "Introduction...

Click here to watch the Keynote introducing the English I Research Paper on careers. You need to watch this to know what the five topics for our research paper will be this year, and have a basic understanding of why we will be researching careers this year.