Project Exchange

ACTIVITY: Elie Wiesel Accepts the Nobel Peace Prize

Project: The Search for Meaning (A Holocaust Project)

SUMMARY

Goals

 

Details

Duration: 90 minutes

Assessments: Student reflections/journals, Student discussions

 

Description

In Small Groups:
1. Read Elie Wiesel's Acceptance Speech for the Nobel Peace Prize (1986)
* Talk to the Text and underline/highlight important points
* Share with your group members the most significant and resonant points that are made

2. Prepare a presentation and display that:
a. Summarizes Elie Wiesel's message about what our RESPONSIBILITY is toward others in the world.
b. Supports your point of view with evidence from the text
c. Provides at least 3 examples of human beings acting in the manner that Elie believes we must.
d. Provides at least 3 examples of how YOU can act, or have acted, in the manner that Elie believes we must.

3. Class Presentations and Discussions

ACTIVITY RESOURCES

(e.g. rubrics, examplars, websites, etc.)


REFLECTIONS & COMMENTS

Author Reflections

ALL PROJECT ACTIVITIES

  1. The Launch
  2. The Initiation (Week1 Activities)
  3. Becoming a Witness: The Project (week2 : day1)
  4. The Word "Night" (week2 : day2)
  5. POV: Auschwitz/'There is no 'why' here' (Week3 : Day1)
  6. Metaphor and Night (Week3 : Day2)
  7. Where is God Now? (week3 : day3)
  8. Hateful Messages, Humanity & Choice (week4 : day1)
  9. "In the depths of my heart, I felt a great void." (week4 : day2)
  10. When We Are Free (week4 : day3)
  11. Not Feeling The Blows That Harm You (week5 : day1)
  12. From The Depths Of The Mirror... (week5 : day2)
  13. Night's Memorial (week5 : day3)
  14. Life is Beautiful (the film)
  15. 4 Corners Discussion Activity
  16. Elie Wiesel Accepts the Nobel Peace Prize