Night

Night by Elie Wiesel was a great read. My youngest brother actually had just read it last year in his eighth grade english class and told me to read it with him so I did. I think that this book is perfect for middle schoolers and high schoolers. Especially eighth grade through tenth grade. I would stop the book at the tenth grade level just because the book was such an easy read. However, if the book was to be used for discussion topics, then I think that older ages would put this book to great use.

Some challenges that can be foreseen with this book is that it has a lot of derogatory terms, it talks a lot about the bible, and it touches on a lot of extremely sensitive topics. Although the things that I just listed were used as challenges, I think that they could also be the books strengths. I think that it is important to open students up to reading about the struggles that many people had to face. I think that it is important to discuss such sensitive topics in order to enlighten students and to make students more sensitive to not only their peers but to the world around them. Some teaching ideas that could be used with this book is something I previously mentioned which are discussions. I think that this book offers a lot of great discussion topics, however every discussion would have to be very intensely and carefully monitored. Another thing that could be done with this book is an essay. My brother had to write an essay on this book and I think that writing about what was just read is an excellent way to sort of vent. Because of this, I would also probably include journals with this reading.

I really enjoyed reading this text and think that a lot of people could benefit from reading this text. Honestly, this book was my favorite read even though I have read it before I had sort of forgotten about it and its content. I really enjoyed this book.