Excerpt from Elie Wiesel's Nobel Acceptance Speech

When Elie Wiesel won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, he gave both an acceptance speech and a lecture. Each included different stories, but both touched on the themes of hope, despair, memory, and most importantly, our responsibility as humans to each other.

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 8 Unit 3's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: Night, First They Came for the Communists, Terrible Things, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, The Diary of a Young Girl, Elie Wiesel Speech, Do Something!, Wangari Maathai, Freerice.com, Public Service Announcements, Famine as a Weapon