Name: Teacher: HAVEN SANDOVAL PRICE ELA 8TH GRADE (Q2) Week 8: Dec. 7-11, 2020 MONDAY ACCEPTANCE SPEECH FOR THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE Read the Text - Annotate TUESDAY ACCEPTANCE SPEECH FOR THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE Read the Text Comprehension Check WEDNESDAY CONCEPT VOCABULARY Vocabulary Worksheet THURSDAY ANALYZE CRAFT AND STRUCTURE Author’s Purpose and Point of View FRIDAY ACCEPTANCE SPEECH FOR THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE Selection Test When you complete the packet, you may return it with any of the following options: 1. Scan each page and send it to your teacher’s email address. 2. Drop off the packet at the TMS front office. 3. Return it to the bus driver on the following Monday and pick up a new packet. If you have any questions about these assignments, please email your teacher or call TMS at 928-729-6811. Mrs. Haven [email protected] Ms. Price [email protected] Ms. Sandoval [email protected] SPEECH 8 And then I explained to him how naive we were, that the world NOTES did know and remain silent. And that is why I swore never to be Use a dictionary or thesaurus or silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering indicate another strategy you used that helped you determine and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps meaning. the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, humiliation (hyoo mihl ee AY never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human shuhn) n. lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national MEANING: borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political Acceptance Speech for the views, that place must—at that moment—become the center of the universe. persecuted (PUR suh kyoo Nobel Peace Prize Elie Wiesel 9 Of course, since I am a Jew profoundly rooted in my people’s tihd) v. memory and tradition, my first response is to Jewish fears, Jewish MEANING: needs, Jewish crises. For I belong to a traumatized generation, one BACKGROUND that experienced the abandonment and solitude of our people. Elie Wiesel wrote more than sixty books, many of which are about his SCAN FOR MULTIMEDIA It would be unnatural for me not to make Jewish priorities my experiences in the Buchenwald and Auschwitz concentration camps. He own: Israel, Soviet Jewry, Jews in Arab lands . But there are was honored with a Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for his commitment to others as important to me. Apartheid1 is, in my view, as abhorrent serving people around the world who have been persecuted or currently 2 traumatized (TRAW muh as anti-Semitism. To me, Andrei Sakharov’s isolation is as much face persecution. tyzd) adj. of a disgrace as Josef Biegun’s3 imprisonment. As is the denial MEANING: of Solidarity and its leader Lech Wałęsa’s4 right to dissent. And 1 t is with a profound sense of humility that I accept the honor NOTES Nelson Mandela’s5 interminable imprisonment. I you have chosen to bestow upon me. I know: Your choice 10 There is so much injustice and suffering crying out for our transcends me. This both frightens and pleases me. attention: victims of hunger, of racism, and political persecution, 2 It frightens me because I wonder: Do I have the right to writers and poets, prisoners in so many lands governed by the represent the multitudes who have perished? Do I have the right Left and by the Right. Human rights are being violated on every to accept this great honor on their behalf? . I do not. That would continent. More people are oppressed than free. And then, too, be presumptuous. No one may speak for the dead, no one may there are the Palestinians6 to whose plight I am sensitive but interpret their mutilated dreams and visions. whose methods I deplore. Violence and terrorism are not the 3 It pleases me because I may say that this honor belongs to all answer. Something must be done about their suffering, and the survivors and their children, and through us, to the Jewish soon. I trust Israel, for I have faith in the Jewish people. Let Israel people with whose destiny I have always identified. be given a chance, let hatred and danger be removed from her 4 I remember: It happened yesterday or eternities ago. A young horizons, and there will be peace in and around the Holy Land. Jewish boy discovered the kingdom of night. I remember his 11 Yes, I have faith. Faith in God and even in His creation. Without bewilderment, I remember his anguish. It all happened so fast. it no action would be possible. And action is the only remedy The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar to indifference: the most insidious danger of all. Isn’t this the upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind meaning of Alfred Nobel’s legacy? Wasn’t his fear of war a shield were meant to be sacrificed. against war? 5 I remember: He asked his father, “Can this be true?” This is the twentieth century, not the Middle Ages. Who would allow such 1. Apartheid n. social policy in South Africa from 1950 to 1994 that separated the country’s crimes to be committed? How could the world remain silent? white and nonwhite populations, creating discrimination against the nonwhites. 2. Andrei Sakharov (1921–1989) nuclear physicist and human-rights activist who was 6 And now the boy is turning to me: “Tell me,” he asks. banished from the Soviet Union for criticizing the government. “What have you done with my future? What have you done with 3. Josef Biegun Jewish man who was imprisoned and murdered during the Holocaust. Copyright © SAVVAS Learning Company LLC. All Rights Reserved. Learning Company LLC. Copyright © SAVVAS 4. Lech Wałęsa (b. 1943) labor activist who helped form and led Poland’s first independent All Rights Reserved. Learning Company LLC. Copyright © SAVVAS your life?” trade union, Solidarity, despite opposition from the Polish government. 7 And I tell him that I have tried. That I have tried to keep 5. Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) leader of the struggle to end apartheid in South Africa; he memory alive, that I have tried to fight those who would forget. had been sentenced to life in prison at the time of this speech. 6. Palestinians reference to the violent conflict between Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews, Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices. who have been fighting to claim the same territory. Acceptance Speech for the Nobel Peace Prize 223 224 UNIT 2 • The Holocaust LIT17_SE08_U02_B2_SG.indd 223 31/10/19 8:23 PM LIT17_SE08_U02_B2_SG.indd 224 31/10/19 8:23 PM 12 There is much to be done, there is much that can be done. One person—a Raoul Wallenberg,7 an Albert Schweitzer,8 one person of NOTES integrity—can make a difference, a difference of life and death. As long as one dissident9 is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our lives will be filled with anguish and shame. What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedom depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs. 13 This is what I say to the young Jewish boy wondering what I have done with his years. It is in his name that I speak to you and that I express to you my deepest gratitude. No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night. We know that every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them. Our lives no longer belong to us alone; they belong to all those who need us desperately. 14 Thank you, Chairman Aarvik. Thank you, members of the Nobel Committee. Thank you, people of Norway, for declaring on this singular occasion that our survival has meaning for mankind. ❧ 7. Raoul Wallenberg (1912–1947?) Swedish diplomat in Hungary who saved tens of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust by issuing passports and providing shelter. 8. Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) Alsatian doctor known for his important contributions in many fields, such as philosophy, religion, music, and medicine. 9. dissident n. person who disagrees with an official religious or political system. Comprehension Check Complete the following items after you finish your first read. Review and clarify details with your group. Notebook Respond to the questions. 1. Upon accepting the honor of the Nobel Peace Prize, what two emotions does Elie Wiesel have? 2. According to Weisel, what is the biggest threat to freedom? 3. Confirm your understanding of the speech by writing a summary of the author’s main points. Copyright © SAVVAS Learning Company LLC. All Rights Reserved. Learning Company LLC. Copyright © SAVVAS RESEARCH Research to Explore Choose one historical figure mentioned in the speech whom you would like to know more about. Briefly research that person. How does knowing more about this person help you better understand the points Wiesel makes? Acceptance Speech for the Nobel Peace Prize 225 LIT17_SE08_U02_B2_SG.indd 225 31/10/19 8:23 PM Name: Date: Acceptance Speech for the Nobel Peace Prize Elie Wiesel WORD LIST humiliation persecuted traumatized A. DIRECTIONS: In each of the following items, think about the meaning of the italicized word or phrase, and then answer the question.