DO-NOW:IMAGINE AMERICA IS TAKEN OVER BY A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT. YOU

ARE PART OF A RESISTANCE MOVEMENT AND HAVE CAPTURED

AN OFFICER OF THE FOREIGN ARMY. IS KILLING HIM JUSTIFIED?

4/8/15AIM: HOW DOES THE NARRATOR

OF DAWN GIVE HINTS TO HIS PSYCHOLOGICAL CONDITION?

NARRATOR: ELISHA

Elisha is an eighteen-year-old young man, going on nineteen. He spends several years at Buchenwald before being freed by Americans. He moves to Palestine and joins the Movement, a terrorist group opposed to the British government’s rule. He is very thoughtful, contemplating man's actions and his own place in the scheme of things.

CHARACTERS: GAD AND ILANA

• Gad recruits Elisha into the Movement and brings him to Palestine from Paris.

• Ilana is a young woman, fiance to Gad and member of the Movement

CHAPTER 1 PART 1

• What is Elisha as he looks out the window as the sun goes down, thinking about?• Where did Elisha meet the beggar? • Who might the beggar be?• What was the synagogue like?• Why did the beggar say not to be afraid of the

dark?• How can you distinguish between night and day?• What face did Elisha see in the window?

CHAPTER 1 PART 2

• When was the execution?• What happened a month ago?• How did the Old Man communicate?• How was John Dawson chosen?• How did the English respond to his capture?• Who was in charge of the British government?• Why did the Old Man say they had to kill John

Dawson?• How did the British government respond?• How did Elisha feel when he found out he had to

kill John Dawson?

CHAPTER 2: EXPOSITION

• What happened when Elisha was freed from a concentration camp?• Why was Elisha interested in philosophy?• Describe the first interaction between Elisha and

Gad• What did Elisha learn in the Hasidic tradition

about Meshulah?• What does Gad offer Elisha with his future?• What is the age-old Jewish dream?• What will happen with David ben Moshe?