Week of March 15, 2010 - March 19, 2010

Wednesday, March 17th:
Last chance to turn in Vocabulary Unit 4. We will go over it today.

Thursday, March 18th:
Your essay on PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER is due today.
The essay must be typed and in the form of a letter to Charlie. The letter should be about 500 words; the font should be 12 and the spacing should be one and a half.

The letter should address some aspect of the story: a relationship, a scene, a decision, etc. which you can either offer an alternative solution, or show your support of character's decision.

Night

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Hasidic: a very conservative sect of Jews which comes from 19th Century Poland.
Setting: Translyvania

Cabbala: Study of Jewish mysticism;
Mysticism: study of the occult; for example, astrology; tarot and the Cabbala – sometimes spelled Kabbala.

The Kabbalist studied the Talmud, the first five books of the Old Testament; by converting the letters of the Talmud into numbers, the Kabbalist hoped to divine the mind of God.

Moshe the Beadle: a sweet tempered beggar who was deported because he was a foreigner. He was put in a cattle cart and transported to a remote place in Poland where he and the other Jews were forced to disembark from the trains and dig their own graves. The Gestapo, German police, shot them all. The Gestapo threw babies up in the air and used them for target practice. Moshe survived because he was shot in the leg and was left for dead. He managed to find his way back into Translyvania. He told stories about a young girl who took three days to die.

No one in Sighet believed Moshe the Beadle; they thought he was crazy.