Some of the students have not completed the Night reading, but I gave them their final test anyway--a high-school-caliber essay! The students have five choices:
1) write a persuasive speech (as a congress person in an isolationist country) convincing other congress people that they need to do something to stop what is going on in the Holocaust
2) an essay about what the cover of night should look like and what three or four striking or gripping images should be included on the inside of the book
3) a persuasive essay about how students in middle school should either have to read Night or how they should not have to read it because it is too "terrifying" or "unbearably painful"
4) a theme essay in which they need to pick at least five quotes and write about "life lessons" or big ideas the book covers
5) an essay about what a Holocaust monument should look like--it's got to be all symbols (no specific people, no words)
Students continued working on finishing up the reading and the reading work. As they get finished, they'll start working on their essay test.
Tomorrow, we they'll have a little more work time, and we'll also be starting the dramatized version of Anne Frank's diary.
Friday, there's a team party. This will be my last blog entry for the week. Let me know if you have any questions here at the end of our school year.
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