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Ellie Wiesel's "Night"

This was an interesting text to read and one that I gave much thought into using in my own classroom. I think that because this text isn't a hard read, but covers topics that are darker, that it would be a good read for high school students around 9th grade. I am getting my degree in ELA, and while many of my friends are getting certified for History as well, that is something I chose not to do. However, since I am placed in a smaller school district with a teacher who has one history class, it was something the crossed my mind. I always think that books have to be read in an ELA class, but the reality is, there is all sorts of reading that could be done in all subjects and so I think that this novel would be appropriate for ELA and history classes, even more so history classes because of all of the history that these pages are laced with. 
Because this book is written by the point of view of the main character, there are many interesting projects that students can do with this text. Here are a few that I thought of while reading:
1)     Research project where students search for similar events to those told in the story and they present their findings to the class either in the form of a presentation or a paper.
2)     Creative writing project where students take the story that Weisel told and retell it through the eyes of another character, for example maybe the father.

There are many more possibilities, but these were just a few that I thought of. WW2 has always been a topic that has caught my interest, as well as most students that I have come across, and so I think this could be a text that would really pull in the interest of most students whether it be an ELA or a history course. 

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