"NIGHT" By: Elie Wiesel

1. "NIGHT" By: Elie Wiesel Ctap project by Jennifer McAlpin 9H English - Julian High School

2. The ups and downs… • The project went extremely well. I found it to be an incredible journey of discovery for both my students and myself. The students learned many aspects of technology, research techniques, and to my surprise were enthralled with the content and exceeded my expectations of what they would learn, create, and retain. • There were a few challenges that I faced, such as time restrictions, computer lab availability, links working 100% of the time and not just 95% of the time, and student access to the internet.

3. War is Peace… Freedom is Slavery… Ignorance is Strength… • The above quote was used by George Orwell to convey his thoughts on war. • My Ninth grade English class took such quotes, sayings, and expressions of war time and combined them with the tragic happenings of the Holocaust. • They created journals, power point projects, completed homework, quizzes, vocabulary, tests, presentations, and the novel. My students worked diligently on their “Night” power point projects by using the Ctap links, my web page, and many other resources.

4. Matt Lewis and Harry Horner work together on their power point project in the computer lab. They used interesting components of technology such as the voice recording, voice automated system, and audio equipment. “I had a lot of fun working with partners and I really enjoyed using the voice recorder. It helped me not to be nervous in my presentation,” commented Matt Lewis. “Life of Hitler” By: Harry Horner and Matt Lewis

5. Growing Up • Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, at Braunau-am-Inn, Austria. Alois, his father, had risen from a poor peasant background to become an Austrian customs official and was able to provide his son with a secondary school education. Adolf, a bright and talented student at his village school, felt out of place in the much larger urban secondary school. Poor school grades prevented him from obtaining the customary graduation certificate.

6. THE EARLY YEARS • In 1913 Adolf Hitler, moved to Munich in southern Germany. At the outbreak of the First World War, in 1914, he volunteered for service in the German army and was accepted into the 16th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment . The day of the announcement of the armistice in 1918, Hitler was in hospital recovering from temporary blindness caused by a British gas attack in the Ypres Salient. In December 1918 he returned to his regiment back in Munich. 

7. THE BEGINING OF GERMAN POLITICS • The worsening economic conditions of the two following years, which included a runaway inflation that wiped out the savings of great numbers of middle-income citizens, massive unemployment, and finally foreign occupation of the economically crucial Ruhr Valley, contributed to the continued rapid growth of the party. By the end of 1923 Hitler could count on a following of some 56,000 members and many more sympathizers and regarded himself as a significant force in Bavarian and German politics. Hitler was tried for treason and given the rather mild sentence of a year's imprisonment in the old fort of Landsberg.

8. THE RISE OF HITLER • With the outbreak of world depression, the fortunes of Hitler's movement rose rapidly. In the elections of September 1930 the Nazis polled almost 6.5 million votes and increased their parliamentary representation from 12 to 107. In the presidential elections of the spring of 1932, Hitler became the most popular next to Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, and in July he outpolled all other parties with some 14 million votes and 230 seats in the parliament.

9. OUTBREAK OF WWII • On Sept. 1, 1939, Hitler began World War II—which he hoped would lead to his control of most of the Eurasian heartland—with the lightning invasion of Poland, which he immediately followed with the liquidation of Jews and the Polish people, the enslavement of the local "subhuman" population, and the beginnings of a German colonization. Following the declaration of war by France and England, he temporarily turned his military machine west, where the lightning, mobile attacks of the German forces quickly triumphed. In April 1940 Denmark surrendered, and Norway was taken by an amphibious operation. In May-June the rapidly advancing tank forces defeated France and the Low Countries.

10. THE FALL OF HITLER • In the last days of the Third Reich, with the Russian troops in the suburbs of Berlin, Hitler entered into a last stage of desperation in his underground bunker in Berlin. He ordered Germany destroyed since it was not worthy of him; he expelled his trusted lieutenants Himmler and Goring from the party; and made a last, theatrical appeal to the German nation. Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945, leaving the last bits of unconquered German territory to the administration of non-Nazi Adm.

11. BIBLIOGRAPHY • http://www.biography.com/perl/frame_this.cgi?page=http://search.biography.com/print_record.pl?id=5537 • http://earthstation1.simplenet.com/wwii.html • http://library.thinkquest.org/12307/propagan.html

12. Pre-Test and Final Power Point Presentations Final Power Point Presentations

13. What a blast! • It was incredibly fun doing this project. Not only did I teach my students about the content of the Holocaust, uses of technology, and incorporating all of them together, but I learned a lot as well. • My students enjoyed themselves and definitely benefited from this Ctap project. Thank you!!