Elie Wiesel's "Hope, Despair and Memory" provides ninth graders an opportunity to demonstrate their ability to analyze complex text. Individuals craft an essay that draws evidence from the text of the speech to show how Wiesel develops his point of view of the role of hope, despair, and memory.

Concepts

elie wiesel, reading comprehension, reading comprehension strategies, the holocaust, night

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Use to assess the need for targeted instruction, as a model how to complete an assessment of this type, as part of a study of World War II and the Holocaust, or as a formative assessment of of pupils ability to demonstrate their understanding of complex text

Classroom Considerations

• The fifth in a series of six assessments designed as a Common Core-aligned English Language Arts performance task for ninth graders

Pros

• The editable Word document may be customized to address the needs of your classes
• Packet includes templates for the reading passage, worksheets, and the writing prompt

Cons

• None

Common Core

RI.9-10.1 RI.9-10.2 RI.9-10.4 RI.9-10.6 W.9-10.2.a W.9-10.4 SL.9-10.1.a