Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

Seeing the Good in People:What the Holocaust and People’s Personal Journeys can Teach us About Ourselves Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Compiled and Created by Sally C. Shoemaker

10/8 Vocabulary List #1 - Advanced • circum – around • fid – faith • cur – care for • mela – black • ine – nature of • vita - life • circumstances – introduction • monument - introduction • confide - dedication • curiosity - 1 • melancholy - 2 • enhance - 3 • satchel - 5 • feminine - 7 • stimulant - 9 • vital - 14

10/8 Vocabulary List #1 • circum – around • fid – faith • mela – black • vita - life • circumstances - introduction • confide - dedication • melancholy - 2 • satchel - 5 • vital - 14

Learning Target: Background Knowledge • Setting Up YOUR Diary • What do you know about a diary? • In your diary (composition book) create a circle map and describe everything you know about a diary. Diary

World War II • Targeted Reading • WW II Part One: Origins of War • The Holocaust, Part One: The Rise of Adolf Hitler and World War II • Read each article • Complete the quiz at the end of each article.

World War II • Content Vocabulary

World War II • Reading Selections: • Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl • Introduction • Dedication

Learning Target: Word Meaning & Tone 10/9 • What is a diary used for? • Answer this question in your diary. Make sure to give a complete explanation and examples. Refer back to your circle map.

Tone Words • Tone Words have attitude. • List three (3) words that convey a positive tone. • List three (3) words that convey a negative tone. • List three (3) words that convey a humorous, ironic, or sarcastic tone. • View this list. Create a list in your diary of words you would use. • Tone Vocabulary List

Tone Words • Reading Selections • As we read today, recognize tone words and identify the tone of the diary entry. • Make sure to note this in your diary. • Sunday, 14 June, 1942 • Monday, 15 June, 1942 • Saturday, 20 June, 1942 (1) • Look back to your Tone Vocabulary List

Written Response: Use of Tone • If you were to write a diary entry today, • what tone would it have? • what words would you use? • what would it teach you if you read it one (1) year from now?

Learning Target: Comparing and Contrasting 10/10 • What have you learned about the Civil Rights Movement? • Answer this question in your diary. • Make sure to give a complete explanation and examples. • Think back to what you already know.

Compare and Contrast • Create a Double Bubble Map or a Venn Diagram • View the video on The Treatment of Jews in World War II. (TAKE NOTES!) • Read the article on the Civil Rights Movement for background information. • Complete a comparison of these two eras in history. • What do they have in common. • How are these two times different?

Compare and Contrast • Reading Selections • As we read today, recognize how Jews were treated during this time. • Saturday, 20 June, 1942 (2) • Sunday 21, June, 1942 • Wednesday, 24 June, 1942 • Tuesday, 30 June, 1942

Written Response: Comparing History • Look at the information you collected for your double bubble. • Use this information to write a paragraph(s) that compares and contrasts the two incidents in history. • Make sure to give a complete explanation and good examples.

Learning Target: Analyzing Text 10/11 • What do you already know about annotating text? • Answer this question in your diary. • Make sure to give a complete explanation and examples. • Think back to what we learned in our earlier units. • NOTES: Annotation

Annotating Text • The Six Reading Habits • http://guides.hcl.harvard.edu/sixreadinghabits • Preview • Annotate – Make Notes • Outline, Summarize, and Analyze • Look for repetitions and patterns. • Contextualize – Put in Time & Place • Compare and Contrast

Reading Selections • As we read today, look back at the six reading habits. • Friday, 3 July, 1942 • Sunday morning, 5 July, 1942 • Wednesday, 8 July, 1942 • Thursday, 9 July, 1942

Written Response: Annotation • After reading, take the copy of one diary entry and annotate that text using the notes from the six habits of reading. • You can do this using any format you choose. • Remember, annotation has to work for you. It is individual!

Learning Target: Visualizing Setting 10/12 • How would you feel living in a small hiding place? • How do you think Anne felt? • How do you think the other family members felt? • Include all these impressions in your diary entry.

Reading Selections • As we read today, think about how Anne feels. • Friday, 10 July, 1942 • Saturday, 11 July, 1942 • Friday, 14 August, 1942 • Friday, 21 August, 1942

Written Response: Diary Entry #1 Complete Personal Diary Entry #1 • Write an entry about your impressions of Anne. Tell what you think or feel about what we have read so far. Include your own personal ideas. • Predict problems that might occur living in such a small place.

Vocabulary List #2 - Advanced 10/15 • mono – one • ob – against • ine – nature of • trans (tran) – across • equi (qui) - equal • monotonous – 25 • obstinate – 27 • ludicrous – 28 • sufficient – 47 • rebuke – 65 • emancipation – 70 • clandestine – 83 • tumult – 91 • optimistic – 109 • tranquility - 115

Vocabulary List #2 10/15 • mono – one • trans (tran) – across • equi (qui) - equal • monotonous – 25 • sufficient – 47 • tumult – 91 • optimistic – 109 • tranquility - 115

Learning Target: Sentence Structure • What makes the writing of the diary seem complex? • Tell what elements of the writing make it sound “smart” or “mature.” • Explain and give examples from the text.

Sentence Structure • Sentence Structure and variety can improve the “level” of the writing. • To improve your own writing you must vary your sentence structure and incorporate more complex and compound complex sentences. • Notes on Sentence Structure

Reading Selections • Reading Selections • Wednesday, 2 September, 1942 • Monday, 21 September, 1942 • Friday, 25 September, 1942 – Sentence Analysis* • Tuesday, 29 September, 1942 • Saturday, 3 October, 1942 • Tuesday, 20 October, 1942 • *After reading, go back to this date and identify the sentence structure of the first 15 sentences in this diary entry. (Use a separate piece of paper.)

Written Response: Goodbye Letter • If you had to go into hiding suddenly and had a few minutes to write a letter to leave for important friends to find, what would you tell them? • Remember you cannot give any information that would reveal that you are hiding or where. • You can only say your goodbyes. • Identify the sentence structure of each sentence in your entry.

Learning Target: Character Traits 10/16 • How would you describe Anne? • What is her character? • What emotions does she express?

Reading Selections • Saturday, 7 November, 1942 • Tuesday, 10 November, 1942 • Tuesday, 17 November, 1942 • Friday, 20 November, 1942 • Monday, 7 December, 1942 • Saturday, 30 January, 1943 • Look back at page 51 • The Prospectus and Guide to the “Secret Annexe”

Written Response: My Prospectus • After reviewing the Prospectus and Guide, create a written response that includes the following: • What could you live with? • What could you not live with? • Add rules or procedures that you think are important. • Make sure to give reasons for those new rules or procedures.

Learning Target: Figurative Language 10/17 • Writing as a Gift • Draw a T chart in your diary. • On the left side write a poem to someone who is important to you. • What emotions do you want to express? • Write a 20 line (min.) poem that you could give to someone special.

Figurative Language & Sound Devices • List these forms of figurative language. Check which ones you think you know. • metaphor • simile • personification • hyperbole • idiom • alliteration • onomatopoeia

Reading Selections • Friday, 2 April, 1943 • Saturday, 13 June, 1943 • Friday, 16 June, 1943 • Monday, 26 June, 1943 • Look back at page 82 • Otto Frank’s Poem to Anne • Identify Figurative Language and Sound Devises

Written Response: Diary Entry #2 • Diary Entry • How would it feel to have no gifts on your birthday or Christmas? • Write a diary entry for either your birthday or Christmas. • Reflect on how it would make you feel to receive no gifts. • Think of what gifts you might give to someone if you could not buy anything.

Learning Target: Cause and Effect 10/18 • Look at what life events have occurred in the book. • Write seven (7) If/Then statements that illustrate cause and effect.

Cause & Effect • If you Give a Cat a Cupcake. • Create a cause and effect chart and list these as I read this aloud to you.

Reading Selections • Friday, 10 September, 1943 • Thursday, 16 September, 1943 • Saturday, 27 November, 1943

Written Response: Diary Entry #3 • Diary Entry • Days in hiding were probably much the same. • Write a detailed description of your daily routines. • Use the style of today’s reading in the Diary. • Refer back to how Anne explained her routines.

Learning Target: Reading Comprehension 10/19 • Anne Frank Quiz #1 • Use Your Own Paper • Put your name, today’s date and your class period in the top right-hand corner. • Number 1 – 25. • There is also a BONUS! • You may use the book, reading guide and your diary. • Turn in the test document and your answer sheet in the baskets on the front table. • May The Force Be With You!

Vocabulary: List #3: Advanced 10/22 • ish – like • co – together • vid – look • pseudo – false • nym - name • morale – 122 • supple – 136 • saunter – 142 • tinge – 155 • coquettish – 168 • hospitable – 184 • sabotage – 193 • livid – 210 • pseudonym – 215 • jocular - 217

Vocabulary: List #3 10/22 • pseudo – false • nym - name • morale – 122 • saunter – 142 • hospitable – 184 • sabotage – 193 • pseudonym – 215

Learning Target: Analyzing Text • What is life like in hiding? • Answer this question in your diary. • Use details from your reading.

Reading Selections • Sunday, 2 January, 1944 • Saturday, 22 January, 1944

Written Responses: Diary Entry #4 • Diary Entry • Write a paragraph explaining how you have changed since the beginning of sixth grade. • Include information on what has caused those changes.

Learning Target: Analyzing Text 10/23 • Odd Man Out • Write about a time when you felt different or left out. • Make sure to tell about the event and your feelings.

Reading Selections • Thursday, 3 February, 1944 • Wednesday, 1 March, 1944 • Tuesday, 7 March, 1944

Written Responses • In Class Essay • What Anne Frank experienced was an extreme version of the kinds of intolerance, bullying, and bigotry that people still experience every day. • Write a personal narrative describing a time you were a victim of this type of behavior, or a time when you treated someone else unfairly. • Let your unique voice come through in your writing, using verb tense, voice, imagery, and all the other literary tools at your disposal to engage your audience.

Learning Target: Using Pronouns 10/24 • Intensive Pronouns • Write 5 sentences that include an intensive pronoun. • Hint: An intensive pronoun ends in -self or -selves and is not necessary to the basic meaning of the sentence. • How is this different from a reflexive pronoun? It ends in –self or –selves?

Intensive Pronouns • Examples from the text: • Sunday, 27 September 1942 • “Margot doesn’t need it, she is such a goody-goody, perfection itself, but I seem to have enough mischief in me for the two of us put together.” • Sunday, 7 November, 1942 • “It is only that I long for Daddy’s real love: not only as his child, but for me – Anne, myself.” • Wednesday, 29 September, 1943 • “If you just think that she still has to finish her office work downstairs, that Koophuis is ill, Miep at home with a cold, and that she herself has a sprained ankle, love worries, and a grumbling father, then it’s no wonder she’s at her wit’s end.”

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl