Elie Wiesel : Teacher Resource File

Welcome to the Internet School Library Media Center page for Elie Wiesel, Nobel Prize Winner. This page includes biography, bibliography and lesson plans. The ISLMC is a preview meta-site for librarians, teachers, parents and students. You can search this site, use an index or sitemap. Revised 8/3/00.

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Biography
Elie Wiesel, 1986 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Biography; bibliography; links
Elie Wiesel

Biography, bibliography
Elie Wiesel

Biography; pictures; timeline; bibliography
Elie Wiesel

Biography; pictures; Note: Includes picture of concentration camp

survivors. From The Hall of Public Service

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History and Criticism
Special Topics on the Holocaust

Section on the Origins of Eli Wiesel's Night
Elie Wiesel's Relationship with God

Research paper by Robert E. Douglas, Jr.
Students Respond to Wiesel's Night A must read
Reaction to Elie Wiesel's Remarks on December 13, 1995, Pittsburg, PA

Recounts Wiesel's presentation; Wiesel's philosophy on collective

guilt and other topics
All Rivers Run to the Sea

Review of Wiesel's memoirs

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Online E-texts
Hope, Despair and memory

Wiesel's Nobel Lecture, Dec. 11, 1986; picture

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Unit/Lesson Plans
Night. Lesson plan

English 10th grade; from KidReach
Teacher Cyberguide. Night

Unit plan. Secondary level. By Barbara Jania-Smith.

WWW based unit from SCORE
"Loss in Literature"

Ninth grade thematic unit; By Jonathan Paul and Kyle Toth;

James Madison University
Summary of the Novel

Writing about Night, a prototype for projects by secondary students
The Holocaust as Seen through the Eyes of Young Persons

Unit plan. Grade 7. [Main title is Diary of Anne Frank
Human Needs Analysis : An Introductory Activity to the Holocaust

By D. White; 7th grade social studies, Humanities, and/or English.

Based on Maslow's Hierarchy. AskEric Lesson Plan
Night

Unit plan

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Kabbalah

Teachers may want to learn more about this topic as they teach Wiesel's writings.

Chabad Lubavitch in Cyberspace

Chasidism; Torah; Moshiach; holidays. Use search engine, term Kabbalah

for links. See About the Mystical Tradition for information on Kabbalah

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Holocaust
Teachers's Guide to the Holocaust Timeline; People; the Arts; Student Activities; Teacher Resouces

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ERIC Resources

If these links do not work, please search AskEric directly.

Teaching the Holocaust in the High School English Class

By Kelly Budd and Jayne Alexander. Grade 9. ED410559.
The Power of Ambiguity: Elie Wiesel's "Night"

By Benj Mahle. From English Journal.
Using the Literature of Elie Wiesel and Selected Poetry to Teach the Holocaust in the Secondary School History Classroom

By Carol Danks; article in Social Studies
Literature of the Holocaust: The Imagination after Auschwitz. A Course for Juniors and Seniors. A Teacher's Guide

By Judith Klau. ED345257.
A Semester in the Library with an English 087 Class: A Partnership between Teacher, Students, and the Librarian

By Arthur L. Rose; higher education; ED387194.
Educating Beyond Hate

By Morton Deutsch. ED325564. Classroom techniques in values

education, cooperative learning.
Adolescent/Young Adult Literature Titles/Holocaust By Darolyn Lyn Jones. ED413614
Engaging Developmental Readers in the Social Construction of Meaning

By Ellen Kaiden; in Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy

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Bibliography
ISLMC Elie Wiesel Bibliography

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