Reflection on Night

Reflection On Night

1. What did you learn about Judaism?

Judaism is the religion of the jewish people

2. What did you learn about the Holocaust?

The holocaust was one of the worst things in history, killing about 11 million people, It was a very hard time for everyone that was involved in the holocaust, They would never live the life that they were living before the holocaust.

3. Do you think you increased your own empathy, integrity and compassion, and how?

Yes, Because i got a better understanding how they lived and how they were treated.

4. Which activities did you enjoy the most?

Watching schindler's List

5. What recommendations do you have for Mrs Torley to change anything if she is teaching this again next year?

None

10T English essay

 Elie Wiesel's memoir 'Night' is his experiences during the Holocaust. He uses a range of language techniques such as Emotive language, Repetition, and first person narration. His writing had a big emotional impact on me, making me feel sad, upset and angry.

In the book Night it talks about a 12 year old boy called Elie who survived the holocaust. The book was written by Elie Wiesel but when he wrote his book it was in a different language and had a different name, So Elie's wife re-wrote it in english and called it Night. The Holocaust has to be one of the worst things that has ever happened in history. In the Holocaust there was approximately 11 million people killed. There were around 6 million jews killed and around 5 million prisoners or war killed. Every day the guards would send around 10,000 people to the gas chambers and the firepit to go and get killed. people would have to watch friends and relatives march to their death.

There was so many ways that people were killed in the Holocaust. Some people were thrown into the gas chambers, Some people were thrown into a firepit and more. A Lot of the children were killed because the guards and Hitler said that the aren't worth keeping them alive because they are too young to be forced to work, so instead they just threw them into the fire pit while they were still alive. When the guards were taking the children to get killed, the would put them on a truck and drive them to the fire pit even though the children thought that they were going home. The children's parents had to watch them get driven out of the place to go get killed. I can't even imagine what the children and adults were feeling.

 "In a fraction of a second I could see my mother, my sister, move to the right, Tzipora was holding mother's hand. I saw them walking farther and farther away, was the quote from the book Night when Elie's family was getting selected to go and get killed in the gas chambers. The technique used in this quote was first person narration using the first person pronouns 'I/my'. This made me feel so sad because Elie's family got selected to go to the gas chambers to get killed while Elie was watching them march to their death.

"I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. but I was out of tears. And deep inside me, if I would have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: ``Free at last", was the quote from the book night when Elie's Dad had died. The technique used in this quote was emotive language. The use of words, Pain, tears, deep inside me. are used to stir my emotions. It made me feel upset that Elie had to see his dad go through this. And it made me upset also because of the fact that he couldn't weep after his dad had died.

Never shall I forget the small faces of those children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky was the quote from the book night when Elie saw children getting killed by getting thrown into a fire pit while they were still alive. The technique used in this quote was Repetition, the words never shall I forget were used 8 times. This made me feel angry because of the fact that babies were getting killed for no reason at all.

These techniques helped me understand how people suffered during the holocaust. It gave me a much better understanding of the horrific experiences that some people have gone through. I do hope that as people ,all over the world that we have learnt something about how we treat each other. Sometimes I worry about all the friction around the world now. With many countries fighting each other and many lives lost.        

The Beach

My favourite thing this week is going to the beach.

On friday after school I went to the beach. I went on My knee board. My knee board is bright yellow with a red stripe at the front. The surf was good because it was flat and easy to paddle on. Once I got into my wetsuit I went into the board shed and got my board. Once i got the board out of the shed i walked down to the beach.

Once I was down on the beach I went into the water and the water was so cold. I went to knee deep and then i started paddling out to the back of the waves. Once I was out the back i was practicing to paddle on my knees. I caught a wave in and while i was coming back out there was a big set of waves. But then i went up to have a shower because I got really cold.

By Lucy

Translation

 

 

In class we have been researching about something that we like I chose surfing because I love surfing. I do surf club and sometimes we go surfing at the beach it is really fun! This is my presentation about surfing.

By Lucy

Reflection

 

In class for the last 2 weeks of school we are working on transformations. For 2 days we are going to be working on Reflection. this is my reflection.

Curious Cove

 Curious Cove was really fun, I stayed in a cabin with Lyla and Zoe. We had so much candy we stuffed it all into a draw. We did lots of cool things. When we got back we had to do some work about camp this is all of my work.

This is my poem:

Curious cove was really fun.

Underwater there was sting rays.

Really fun stuff to do.

I went on a boat.

On the boat people were throwing up.

U will meet nice people there.

Some sunny days.

Curious is a nice place to go.

On the boat we went up and down.

Very rainy days.

Eating lots of nice food.

At camp I loved all of it. it was all so fun I liked the walk at shipps cove, the flying fox, jumping off the wharf

and lots more.

Jumping off the wharf was fun. at first I didnt want to jump off but then I jumped off because Nikaia made

me and I really liked it and I wish that I did it more times. Then after that me Nikaia and Levi wanted to

swim to see a stingray but we wernt allowed so Nika wanted to pick up a sea cucumber when she saw it

she didnt want to pick it up so she got levis crocks. she tried and tried but she couldnt get it. 

Then we had a shower and got ready to go to the flying fox. when we got to the flying fox When Lyla was

going to go down she got scared to go on it so then I went instead. It was really scary at first but then

it was really fun!

When we went to shipps cove we got on the boat, whe got to an island we walked up the hill

then we got back on the boat and we went to shipps cove. when we got to shipps cove we got

off the boat and walk on the wharf then we had hotdogs for lunch. After that we went for a walk we

walked to go and see a waterfall it was so pretty!

This is my animation:

This is My Book About Curious Cove ← Click on this to see my book