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interact in Meaningful Ways: academic Collaboration
Learning Targets
• Ask and answer questions and exchange ideas about a speech in collaborative conversations.
• Demonstrate active listening.
• Read a text closely to make meaning of and explain it.
• Use knowledge of word structure, context, reference materials, and visual cues to determine the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words on familiar topics.
• Analyze the parts of a speech.
Turn to your partner or small group to discuss each question about Elie Wiesel’s speech. After you have discussed a question, write notes about your answer before going on to the next question.
aCTiViTY 2.4
1. What is the occasion of this speech? What is the speaker’s purpose?
The speaker’s purpose is .
2. What central event does the speaker reference or allude to? How does this event serve as the basis for his speech?
3. What is the speaker’s tone, or attitude toward, his subject?
4. What is the speaker’s call to action? In other words, what does he want his audience to do?
The speaker’s call to action is .
Asking Questions
Elie Wiesel gave his speech with a specific purpose in mind. With your partner or small group, read aloud paragraphs 5 and 6 of the speech. Discuss how Wiesel issues a call to action in these paragraphs and throughout his speech. If you could ask Wiesel one question about his call to action, what would it be? Write the question to share with the class.
The speaker alludes to the . This serves as the basis of his speech by .
The speaker’s attitude toward his subject is .
Unit 3 • The Challenge to Make a Difference • Part 2: from Elie Wiesel’s Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech 113
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