Motifs In The Book Night

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Isabella Fortin 5/16/24 Mr. Jacome Polaris.

High-Quality Work Reflection 2 Throughout quarter two I wrote an essay about the motifs in our book Night By Elie Wiesel in ELA. We had to write an essay about the motifs in our book Night, and I got a 3 out of 4 on it. The goal was to show the reader what the night was all about and what the moral of the story was. The Book Night is a book by Elie Wiesel and he talks about how he survived the Holocaust and how the motif of religion kept coming to life. Complexity means that the work challenges students to apply, analyze, evaluate, and create and it often connects to the bigger concepts, themes, and ideas This assignment shows complexity because it connects to the bigger concepts, themes, and ideas

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