“The Diary of Anne Frank”

1. “The Diary of Anne Frank” How do you keep from giving up? 8th Grade Literature

2. The Diary of

3. Bellwork Essential Question:  • In the face of adversity, what causes some to prevail while others fail? How do you keep from giving up? Unit Goal: • Students will read a variety of fiction and non-fiction literature, relating to the Holocaust, learning how other people stay positive while enduring the most challenging of circumstances. 

4. Bell Work • Write about your break. • What did you do? • Were you bored? Having lots of fun? Relaxing? • Are you glad to be back in school? Why or why not?

5. Reading Journals • Sticky Notes – mark off in notebook • Label and Date as we go along: • Reading Journal # ___ • Notes • Respond completely and be prepared to share.

6. Classwork • Complete the “Anticipation Guide” for The Diary of Anne Frank.

7. Agree? Somewhat…? Disagree? After reading each statement, decide whether you: • Agree • Somewhat agree/disagree • Disagree Be ready to discuss your decision.

8. Agree? Somewhat…? Disagree? I treat all groups of people the same way.

9. Agree? Somewhat…? Disagree? I don’t hate anyone.

10. Agree? Somewhat…? Disagree? I would risk my life for my family.

11. Agree? Somewhat…? Disagree? I would risk my life for a stranger.

12. Agree? Somewhat…? Disagree? I get angry when I am not treated fairly.

13. Agree? Somewhat…? Disagree? If it hadn’t been for Hitler, the Holocaust would never have happened.

14. Agree? Somewhat…? Disagree? It is okay to ignore things that are wrong if they don’t affect you directly.

15. Agree? Somewhat…? Disagree? In spite of everything, people are really good at heart.

16. Terrible Thing by Eve Bunting • http://vimeo.com/31162159

17. Reading Journal #1 • The Terrible Things • Why were the Terrible Things able to get away with what they did? • What was the initial reaction by the animals when the Terrible Things first came? • What would have happened had the animals stuck together?

18. Bell Work SSR Sustained Silent Reading

19. What are the consequences of silence? “In Germany, they came first for the communists, and I didn’t speak up because I was not a communist. Then, they came for the Jews and I didn’t speak up because I was not a Jew. Then, they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I was not a trade unionist. Then, they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then, they came for me and by that time, no one was left to speak up.” -Pastor Martin Niemoller

20. Holocaust Pre-reading Journal #2 Imagine that you and your family had to go into hiding in order to survive and avoid being separated from each other. Express how you feel about leaving your home and friends.

21. “All’s fair in love and war” • All Jews were required to • wear a yellow star • turn it their bicycles • do their shopping between 3 and 5 PM • go to only Jewish owned Barber Shops and Beauty Parlors • attend Jewish Schools

22. “…but you have to make sacrifices for a good cause…if we can save even one of our friends, the rest doesn’t matter,” • All Jews were forbidden to • go to Theaters, Movies or any other forms of entertainment • ride in cars even their own • Use athletic fields • take part in any athletic activity in public • be on the streets between 8 PM and 6AM • Sit in their gardens after 8:00 PM • Visit Christians in their homes • use street cars

23. “It’s like the slave hunts of the olden days” "You couldn't do this you couldn't do that but life went on" This is because of the Nuremberg Laws

24. Classwork • Read “A Brief History of the Holocaust.”

25. Bell Work • In your notebook, make a list of three things you learned about the Holocaust from yesterday’s article. • Take out your annotated article and place it on your desk.

26. Elements of Drama: Basic Dramatic Principles Exposition (Background Information) • introduces the characters, setting, and basic situation Initial Conflict • struggle, main problem Complications (Rising Action) • disagreements, additional problems Climax • moment of greatest interest or suspense; the turning point Denouement (Resolution) • how the play ends (final act)

27. Elements of Drama • Act and Scene: • Dramas are divided into acts and scenes. Acts and scenes are important because they organize and add dramatic emphasis to a story. In live performance you can identify a scene by a brief break in the story or blackout on the stage. Breaks between acts are much longer and often present major changes when the story resumes. • Act • A major division of a drama that usually focuses on one piece of the plot or theme of the play. • Acts are divided into scenes (similar to chapters in a book). • Scene • Presents action in one place or situation.

28. Elements of Drama • Stage Directions: • Stage directions are the instructions written into the script of a play that describe the characters, sets, costumes, and lighting. • They give the readers insight into what the author intends for the visual aspects of settings and specific actions. • Stage directions appear in italics offset by brackets.

29. Elements of Drama • Irony: occurs when there is a difference between what is expected and what actually happens in a short story, poem, or play. • Situational irony • An author creates situational irony when a character expects a particular outcome, but the opposite occurs. • Dramatic irony • An author creates dramatic irony when the reader or audience has important information that the character or characters do not have. • For example, dramatic irony may result when a character lacks self-awareness and acts according to false ideas. • How is the play, “The Diary of Anne Frank” an example of dramatic irony? • We (audience/readers) know that Anne and the others will not survive.

30. Elements of Drama • Flashback: • An interruption in the present action to show events that happened at an earlier time.

31. Characters in Crisis (Conflict): • Every play centers on a crisis, a situation of danger or difficulty that places something of great value at risk: life, love, family, and pride, anything that is precious to them. • The crisis may arise because the characters want something for which they must struggle with someone else (external conflict) or with themselves (internal conflict). • The crisis may also arise because the characters want to remove a threat to their safety or happiness. • Character cannot avoid the situation and must stay and face the threat = external conflict • Character chooses to avoid the threat = internal conflict

32. Making a Change (Characterization): • Most plays are about change, both in characters and in their relationships. • In The Diary of Anne Frank both dynamic and static characters exist. • These changes come about as the characters work out their conflicts. • In The Diary of Anne Frank, we see several of the characters change as a result, some becoming wiser and more generous, others pettier and more self-centered.

33. Holocaust Pre-reading Journal #3 During hiding, your very survival is dependent on the goodness and charity of others. Would you be willing to risk your life for someone you hardly know, understanding that if you are caught, you will be put to death?

34. AnneFrank The Life and Diary of a Young Girl

35. The Beginning Annelies Marie Frank was born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt Am Main, Germany. She was a happy baby, and the second child of Edith and Otto Frank. Otto had even been decorated as a German officer during World War I. But what Anne didn’t know was the terrible political climate outside the boundaries of her rich, green backyard. Anne Frank and her sister, Margot Baby Anne Anne, Margot, and their father

36. Immigration Pretty soon, Otto thought it became way too dangerous for the Frank Family to live in Germany. As German as they felt, they were also Jewish. And with Hitler and his army, Jewish, was very dangerous to be. In 1933, the Franks moved to The Netherlands. One of the last photos of the Franks in Germany. The Jewish Star of David.

37. Adjusting to New Life For Anne, it was very easy to make friends. She loved school, and talked a lot. She also had a trick of dislocating her shoulder for a good scare out of her teachers and classmates. Her best friends were Hanneli Goslar, Jacqueline Van Maarsen, and Sanne Lederman. The original three friends were called Hanne, Sanne, and Anne. The three (including another friend) had a club called “The Little Dipper”. She also had six other friends in the club including herself, and then they found out that the Little Dipper had five stars instead of seven, so they named the club, “The Little Dipper Minus Two”.

38. Chatterbox Anne was very chatty, like it was told. In fact, she was often told by her teacher to write short stories in school, that were often humorous, and protection towards her teacher and classmates. One day, she was told to write an essay on “The Traits of a Qauckenbush”. She explained that she couldn’t help herself because it was a feminine trait, and that her mother talked twice as much as she did. She kept right on talking, and was given another story to write called “Quack, Quack, Quack!!”. It talked about three girl geese and the father who ate their heads off for talking too much. This story was her most humorous, and she still kept on talking. This was her last and final essay her teacher gave her.

39. School Life Anne got good grades, but her biggest problem was algebra. She totally loathed it. She also liked to flirt a lot, but only her mother wished she could’ve been smarter and got better grades like Margot, but Anne knew she could never measure up. Margot Frank’s Report Card

40. Invasion Anne was still happy with her way of life, along with the rest of the Frank’s. One dreadful day in 1941, the Nazis invaded Germany. Adolf Hitler, Nazi Leader The Nazis

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42. Dearest Kitty On June 12, 1942, it was Anne’s birthday. She woke up very early to open up her presents in 37 Merwedeplein. The first gift she opened was a red and white checkered diary. She also got a blue blouse, flowers, chocolate, and more, but the diary caught most of her attention. She screamed with excitement, running to her father, hugging him.

43. Call-Up Notice One dreadful afternoon of July, there was a knock at the door. Anne hoped it was her beau, Hello Silverberg, but it was not. It was a Nazis order for Margot Frank to report to a German labor camp the next day. They went into hiding that very next day.

44. (Continued) The next morning, they were told to go early in the morning, to a hiding place. Anne later wrote, “ Into hiding- where would we go, in a town or the country, in a house or a cottage, when, how, where…?” Anne also described what she was taking with her: “ These were the questions that I was not allowed to ask, but I couldn’t get them out of my mind. Margot and I began to pack some of our most vital belongings into a school satchel. The first thing I put in was this diary, then hair curlers, handkerchiefs, schoolbooks, a comb, old letters; I put the craziest things with the idea that we were going into hiding. But I’m not sorry, memories mean more to me than dresses.”The next morning, the Frank family arrived at their destination.

45. 263 Prinsengracht The Franks arrived at their new hiding place, until the war was over, or they were discovered. It was a three-story building above the store of Otto Frank. First, there was a big door that said “Employees Only” that was the entrance to the hiding place. (Later known as “The Secret Annex”.) One of the helpers of the Frank family put up a bookcase in front of the door. The Bookcase to the Secret Annex The front of 263 Prinsengracht The back of 263 Prinsengracht

46. Classwork • Begin reading “The Diary of Anne Frank.” • Go to page 510 and begin listening to scenes one and two.

47. Bell Work SSR Sustained Silent Reading

48. “God has not forsaken me, and He never will.”

49. Kitty Anne Frank’s diary, Kitty. (The most famous diary during the Holocaust.) Her first entry: “I hope I shall be able to confide in you completely, as I have never been able to do in anyone before, and I hope that you will be a great support and comfort to me.”