Elie S Life Through Many Mediums
Elie’s Life through Many Mediums
Evidence / Importance or Significance of EvidenceMode-what is the mode used? How does this mode give insight into the author/speaker?
Relationship-what relationship is there with the author and his text? With this text and another text by the author?
Images-what images are displayed? How are they displayed? What images are discussed in the writing? Why?
Purpose-what is the author’s/director’s/interviewer’s/interviewee’s purpose? How do you know?
Assertion-your thoughts about this piece.
Evidence to support your assertions (direct quotes)
Commentary to link your assertion and evidence and the author’s purpose
Sample for video 2001
Evidence / Importance or Significance of EvidenceMode-what is the mode used? How does this mode give insight into the author/speaker? / Video of Wiesel Centennial Symposium / The video is important in that the viewer gets to see Wiesel, his expression, hear his speech pattern all in an attempt to fully understand the writer’s purpose.
Relationship-what relationship is there with the author and his text? With this text and another text by the author? / Hope in sadness-the joke
“We get up early because the world does not let us sleep” / Wiesel shows that with all that happened to him during the Holocaust (as expressed in his memoir Night) he still strives to fight for justice for others and present this speech as a charge to an international audience.
Images-what images are displayed? How are they displayed? What images are discussed in the writing? Why? / Desmond Tu Tu
Cameras
Disheveled Wiesel
Man with Translator headphones
Aids in Africa
20th century tragedies / The images show that Wiesel is not speaking in a vacuum. Important world leaders are taking note and in spite of his somewhat haggard demeanor he thinks that the symposium and his words can impact the future of the world.
Purpose-what is the author’s/director’s/interviewer’s/interviewee’s purpose? How do you know? / Discussion of the Jewish Holocaust in 1943,
discusses his hopes and fears / This speech is a charge for an international audience of world leaders to change the outcome of the 21st century.
Assertion-your thoughts about this piece.
Evidence to support your assertions (direct quotes)
Commentary to link your assertion and evidence and the author’s purpose / Elie Wiesel in his 2001 speech at the Nobel Centennial Symposia was timely. The new millennium was fairly recent and Wiesel took this opportunity to charge an international audience to make a positive impact on the coming years. Wiesel used his own experiences in the Holocaust, his own hopes and fears, to discuss the last century along with discussing international heroes and their own struggles. His emotionally tinged discussion centered on eliminating the negatives. One can see from the video that Wiesel makes a compelling argument. He looks worn and haggard which confirms the import of his commitment to changing the world. It is clear that Wiesel does not let the circumstances in own his life create a bitter, self-centered man but on the contrary to use his own experiences to change the world. Elie Wiesel drives his audience to a shared purpose; the betterment of humanity.
Elie’s Life through Many Mediums
Assertion/Evidence/Commentary Rubric
4 / 3 / 2 / 1Assertion, Evidence, Commentary / There is a clear assertion (thesis), followed by appropriate, detailed evidence, and thoughtful commentary in every paragraph. / There is a clear assertion (thesis), followed by appropriate, but not always detailed evidence, and appropriate, but not always particularly thoughtful, commentary in every paragraph. / The evidence and/or commentary occasionally do not fully support the assertion. And/Or-
Supporting evidence and appropriate commentary are present, but not sufficient to prove the assertion. / The assertion is present, but not clear. And/Or- The majority of the evidence and commentary do not fully support the assertion.