This worksheet will help your students understand and analyze Cyrus Cassells' poem Juliek's Violin. The 12 questions are "chunked" stanza-by-stanza and analyze the poet's use of syntax, diction, theme, characterization, figurative language, setting, and symbolism. You can assign it digitally or print it out. I've also included an answer key for your convenience.

I always incorporate this poem after reading chapter 6 of Elie Wiesel's Night during our study of humanity during The Holocaust. It's a great way to incorporate poetry analysis into the novel study unit. Please let me know if you have any questions!

This product will allow your students to easily understand and analyze Elie Wiesel's "Never Shall I Forget" from Night chapter three by breaking it down line-by-line!

Instruct your students to fold the paper in half the long way, and to cut along the black lines into the midline of the paper. They will end up with a long, skinny version of the poem on the front of the flaps and analysis question inside.

As they read the poem, they will peel back the flap to reveal questions that ask them to analyze the poem's tone, diction, figurative language, repetition, theme, author's purpose, symbolism, alliteration, and format. An answer key is included for your convenience!

This product is perfect for your students' interactive notebooks, as an in-class activity, or for homework. The activity would be appropriate for accelerated middle school or high school classes.

This is an interactive partner or small group activity that will have students up and moving throughout the room in order to answer 15 questions related to many different literary devices in Elie Wiesel's Holocaust novel, Night.

The product contains 15 multiple questions that have at least 4 answer choices. The questions are all ANALYSIS questions, not recall questions. You will hang these signs around your classroom. Based on their answer, the students will be directed to another question. If the students make a mistake, they have to retrace their footsteps and find the question(s) they answered incorrectly. Each group/ pair will start at a different question, and the kids will "follow the trail" of questions throughout your room. The activity is totally self-directed and self-checking!

Also included is an answer sheet for students to record their answers as well as an answer key for the teacher.

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Are you looking for an interactive, student-led activity/ assessment for the end of Night?

This resource contains two different packets of Socratic Seminar packets- packet A and packet B. Each packet contains three different discussion questions that require students to answer and provide two quotes from the text to back up their answers. Students are also required to come up with three additional questions they will ask if there’s time in their seminar. Finally, the packet has a page where each student will monitor a partner in the opposite seminar. They will make a check each time their partner speaks, and paraphrase meaningful comments their partner makes. The file also contains a rubric for you to use while your students are discussing!

When you print out the file, you’ll see packet A on the top half of the sheet, packet B on the bottom half, and then the rubric as the last page of the file. Remove the rubric and print one out for each of your students. Copy the rest of the pages, cut them in half, and staple them. Each student will receive one half-sheet booklet; packet A or packet B.

Give your students adequate time to plan for their Seminar! I usually give them a full class period (40 minutes for me), but you could have them do it for homework, or over the course of a few days. The day of the Seminar, you’ll assign partners with opposite packets. Let A discuss for as long as they need (usually 25 to 30-ish minutes for me!), then flip-flop your circles and have B discuss afterwards.

My students LOVE Socratic Seminars! I have found the fishbowl discussion format works much better when you give each group three different questions so you don’t hear the same discussion two times, which is how this product is set up. I have used Socratic Seminars in small literature circle groups, as well as with the whole class at once. Please ask if you have questions!

When I read Night with my students, our focus is how imagery contributes to the author’s purpose of examining how cruelty fuels dehumanization. This product gives you everything you need to track the imagery, check for understanding with 2 paragraph response prompts, and a final test. I’ve included many examples you can refer to as exemplars for the tracking chart, sample paragraph responses, and the Essential Question that you can hang on your board. The final test includes 10 rigorous multiple choice questions that require students to analyze Wiesel's imagery, as well as a final paragraph response question. A thorough answer key for the test is included as well.

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