Explore Night through this comprehensive 6-deck study unit, designed around discussion, interpretation and active learning rather than worksheets.

This resource includes six analysis packs covering context; themes; character; language features and narrative structure; teaching sequence; and analytical paragraph exemplars.

Students explore:
• Elie Wiesel’s context within the Holocaust, his experiences at Auschwitz and Buchenwald, and the historical significance of survivor testimony
• Themes including the loss of faith and humanity, father-son relationships under extreme duress, silence and the limits of language in representing atrocity, dehumanisation, and the responsibility of bearing witness
• Character analysis of Eliezer, his father, and other prisoners who shape his experience and worldview
• Language features and narrative structure, including Wiesel’s spare, restrained prose style, the memoir’s chronological structure, and recurring motifs (night and darkness, fire, silence)
• A ready-to-teach sequence guiding lesson flow across the unit
• Exemplar analytical paragraphs modelling strong textual analysis for student reference

Includes rich learning activities such as debates, scene analysis, collaborative tasks, visual literacy activities, retrieval practice, exemplar analysis and essay planning.

Teaching approach
This resource is activity-based rather than a scripted lesson-by-lesson program. Teachers can select and adapt tasks to suit their classroom needs, with an emphasis on discussion, interpretation and collaborative analytical learning.
Content note: This unit deals with graphic accounts of genocide, violence and death. Given the younger age range, please preview carefully and consider age-appropriate framing, pacing and support for sensitive discussions before use.

File information
• Non-editable PDF
• Not an editable PowerPoint
How to use
• Upload to your LMS for digital learning
• Print selected pages for classroom use
• Display pages to guide discussion and activities
• Adapt in presentation or design platforms if desired (formatting may vary)