http://bhscomp1.blogspot.com/2016/12/intro-to-nonfiction.html
2. Speech: Keep the Memory Alive
Objective: Read, comprehend, and analyze Elie Wiesel’s speech, “Keep the Memory Alive.”
Students will determine the author's purpose and discuss elements of rhetoric
Students will determine the author's purpose and discuss elements of rhetoric
Activities:
1. Students will watch a video of Elie Wiesel revisiting Auscwitz:
2. Students will read about Elie Wiesel on page 500 of their textbook.
3. Students will read the speech “Keep the Memory Alive” by Elie Wiesel on page 591 of their textbook together as a class. (Click on the Purple 10th grade text)
4. Students will answer the following questions individually:
a. What right, or claim does Wiesel question?
b. Why is the boy incredulous as he’s being deported?
c. What does Wiesel call those who deliberately forget the Holocaust?
d. Why does Wiesel use the term “the fiery altar”?
e. What is Weisel’s purpose in having his boy self talk to his man self?
f. At the end of the piece, of what crime does Wiesel accuse the world, and how did this crime affect his future actions?
g. Describe a situation today in which silently witnessing might do harm.
h. Explain a time when you reflected on the past in order to keep a lesson in your mind.
Standards:
CC.1.2.9-10.A: Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
CC.1.2.9-10.B: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences and conclusions based on an author’s explicit assumptions and beliefs about a subject.
