January 25th, 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 Neuron (Nerve Cell).

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Level#1

A neuron is a nerve cell. Neurons come in many sizes and shapes. In fact, one neuron in your leg can be more than 3 feet long! Neurons are the basic units of structure that make up the nervous system. A typical neuron has three main parts. The largest part of the neuron is the cell body. There are long fibers that branch from the cell body. Some of these fibers carry messages from other neurons into the cell body. These fibers are called dendrites. Other fibers carry messages away from the cell body to other neurons. These fibers are called axons.

1. What is the largest part of the neuron?





2. What are the long fibers that carry messages from other neuron into the cell body called?





3. What are the fibers that carry messages away from the cell body to other neurons called?





4. Elie Wiesel mentions that he meets a young man, that he knows from his home town, who had arrived at Birkenau a week before he did. Because of this young man's strength, he is given the job of working in the crematoria. What is this young man's name? (Refer to page 35 for the answer to this question) 


Level#2

A neuron is a nerve cell. Neurons come in many sizes and shapes. In fact, one neuron in your leg can be more than 3 feet long! Neurons are the basic units of structure that make up the nervous system. A typical neuron has three main parts. The largest part of the neuron is the cell body. There are long fibers that branch from the cell body. Some of these fibers carry messages from other neurons into the cell body. These fibers are called dendrites. Other fibers carry messages away from the cell body to other neurons. These fibers are called axons. Sensory neurons are connected to your sense organs. The eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and skin are your sense organs. Sensory neurons take messages away form the sense organs to the brain and spinal cord.

1. What are the three main parts of the neuron?





2. There are long fibers that branch from the cell body. Some of these fibers carry messages from other neurons into the cell body. What are these fibers called?





3. Other fibers carry messages away from the cell body to other neurons. What are these fibers called?








4. Elie Wiesel mentions that he meets a young man, that he knows from his home town, who had arrived at Birkenau a week before he did. Because of this young man's strength, he is given the job of working in the crematoria. What is this young man's name, and who's body is he forced to put in the furnace to cremate? (Refer to page 35 for the answer to these questions) 

Level#3


A neuron is a nerve cell. Neurons come in many sizes and shapes. In fact, one neuron in your leg can be more than 3 feet long! Neurons are the basic units of structure that make up the nervous system. A typical neuron has three main parts. The largest part of the neuron is the cell body. There are long fibers that branch from the cell body. Some of these fibers carry messages from other neurons into the cell body. These fibers are called dendrites. Other fibers carry messages away from the cell body to other neurons. These fibers are called axons. Sensory neurons are connected to your sense organs. The eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and skin are your sense organs. Sensory neurons take messages away form the sense organs to the brain and spinal cord. Motor neurons carry messages away from the central nervous system to muscles and glands. Glands are organs that make chemical substances that are used or released by the body. Muscles and glands respond to information from the brain.

1. Explain what the basic unit of structure of the nervous system is, how many main parts it has, and what the names of these main parts are.







2. Explain what dendrites and axons do as they do the job of carrying messages between two or more neurons.






3. Explain the job that sensory neurons do to supply us with information about our environment, and the job that motor neurons do to allow muscles and glands to function properly.






4. Elie Wiesel mentions that he meets a young man, that he knows from his home town, who had arrived at Birkenau a week before he did. Because of this young man's strength, he is given a "special" job. What is this young man's name, what job is he given, and what is he forced to do with his own father's body as a result of the job he is given to do? (Refer to page 35 for the answer to these questions) 









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