January 12th, 2017 Night by: Elie Wiesel

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Directions: ANSWER USING COMPLETE SENTENCES! Use the information you have been given to answer questions about: The Muscular System: How to have healthy muscles.

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Level#1

Getting exercise is the best thing you can do to keep your muscles healthy. Exercise pumps blood and oxygen all over your body making you feel alert and healthy. Exercise also makes your muscles strong and firm.

1. How can you keep your muscles healthy?

2. What does exercise do for your body?

3. What can you do to make your muscles strong and firm?

4. The train that Elie Wiesel is on travels very far. At one point, a German officer speaks to them and tells them that they are now to hand over any gold, silver, or watches. What does the officer tell them will happen to them if they do not hand them over now? (see page 24 for the information to answer this question).

Level#2

Getting exercise is the best thing you can do to keep your muscles healthy. Exercise pumps blood and oxygen all over your body making you feel alert and healthy. Exercise also makes your muscles strong and firm. A healthy exercise program begins and ends with stretching. Research shows that a lack of exercise causes teenagers to gain more weight than overeating does.

1. What can you do to keep your muscles healthy?





2. What does exercise do for your body and what does it do for your muscles?






3. What can a lack of exercise cause to happen to a teenager?





4. What does a German officer tell the people, in the train car that Elie Wiesel is in, that they should do if they feel ill? (see page 24 for the information to answer this question).






Level#3

Getting exercise is the best thing you can do to keep your muscles healthy. Exercise pumps blood and oxygen all over your body making you feel alert and healthy. Exercise also makes your muscles strong and firm. A healthy exercise program begins and ends with stretching. Research shows that a lack of exercise causes teenagers to gain more weight than overeating does. Nutrition is also important for keeping muscles healthy. You should eat a variety of healthy foods. This means including meat or beans, fruits and vegetables, and breads and cereals in your diet.

1. Explain the three important benefits that exercise provides for both your muscles and your body in general.

2. Explain in detail the role that nutrition plays in keeping muscles healthy.







3. A German officer enters the train car that Elie Wiesel and others from his town are traveling in, and says, "there are eighty of you in the car, if anyone goes missing…" What is the rest of his statement that is intended to scare everyone into not trying to escape? (see page 24 for the information to answer this question).






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