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

Spring 2011
this into account in future versions of this lesson. I might also go into more detail about the
enterprise at the end of the unit so the students know what is coming in the future and how
everything will tie together.
In terms of flow, I do not necessarily think that my students got into a flow during this
particular lesson, as many of the conditions for flow were not addressed in this lesson. The lack
of peer interaction and immediate feedback; however, students were given control over their
reader response entries and a feeling of competence in talking about their own experiences.
I think that the students met the standards for the day very well. They were able to
participate in the discussion concerning the historical events surrounding the literature we will be
reading in this unit and they were very receptive to the information that they did not already
know. Their participation and engagement with this standard can be seen in the note-taking
handout that they completed during the class. They also met the standard of generating a
personal reflection with their first reader response entry. Overall I was very pleased with the
opening of this unit but would make a few changes in the future.
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