Elie Wiesel's Night: Out of the Darkness - College of Education

Websites
� http://www.flholocaustmuseum.org/
o This website for the Florida Holocaust Museum contains great information
about the various exhibits, which attempt to put the viewer in the setting of the
victims of the Holocaust.
� http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/jcheek3/holocaust.htm
o This website offers links to many different sites about the Holocaust,
including, to name only a few, “Holocaust Heroes” and links to a virtual
example of Anne Frank’s home during her time in hiding.
� http://www.ushmm.org/
o This website for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum gives
information, images, and stories from the Holocaust of World War II as well
as modern day Holocausts in the Sudan.
� http://members.accessus.net/%7Ebradley/nightvoc.html
o This website offers a list of Jewish terms that the students may encounter
through their reading of Night or other Holocaust literature and could be used
for vocabulary lists and lessons.
Travel Resources
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Personal Stories
� See “Canonical Literature”
o Each of the texts in this section offer a personal account of some historical
event, be it the Holocaust, slavery, or civil rights.
Resources for teachers
� Teaching Methods
o Freedom & Identity: A Unit for Ninth Grade Language Arts
� http://www.coe.uga.edu/~smago/VirtualLibrary/Brown_Hummel_Man
n_Taylor_Wright.pdf
� This example of a Night unit is available through Peter
Smagorinsky’s Virtual Library and offers a wonderful example
of an in-depth study of Wiesel’s work in conjunction with other
human rights related pieces.
� Critical Commentaries
o Period’s Major Literary Critic
� “Historical Survey of Critical Views on Elie Wiesel’s Night”
� This research project was completed through a literary
criticism course that I took in the Fall of 2010 and considers
the various criticisms of Wiesel’s novel.
� Whole texts that can be found online
o Frederick Douglass’ Life of an American Slave, Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in
the Life of a Slave Girl, and Olaudah Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative of
the Life of Olaudah Equiano are available in full text at the following website.
� http://faculty.pittstate.edu/~knichols/sistahs.html#slave
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