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

Vocabulary List #1 - Advanced • circumstances – introduction • monument - introduction • confide - dedication • curiosity - 1 • melancholy - 2 • enhance - 3 • satchel - 5 • feminine - 7 • stimulant - 9 • vital - 14

Vocabulary List #1 • circumstances - introduction • confide - dedication • melancholy - 2 • satchel - 5 • vital - 14

E.Q.: How does the context and background knowledge of the time period improve my understanding of the text? • 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 • Create a K-W-L-H Chart about World War II.

World War II • Content Vocabulary • Holocaust • World War II • Adolf Hitler • The Nationalist Socialist (Nazi) • concentration camps • deportation • rearmament • Jews

World War II • Introduction to World War II • The American Chronicles: The Prelude to War: 1935-1939 • Add more to your chart. • Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl • Introduction • Dedication

E.Q.: How does understanding the purpose for a diary impact the meaning of a text? How does word choice affect the tone of the diary? • 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?

E.Q.: How does comparing and contrasting similar incidents in history help you understand the author’s meaning in the text? • 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 we learned in our earlier units.

Compare and Contrast • Create a Double Bubble Map • View the video on The Treatment of Jews in World War II. • 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.

E.Q.: How do readers effectively analyze and annotate texts for evidence? • 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!

E.Q.: How does reading about the Secret Annex help in understanding the setting? • 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 • monotonous – 25 • obstinate – 27 • ludicrous – 28 • sufficient – 47 • rebuke – 65 • emancipation – 70 • clandestine – 83 • tumult – 91 • optimistic – 109 • tranquility - 115

Vocabulary List #2 • monotonous – 25 • sufficient – 47 • tumult – 91 • optimistic – 109 • tranquility - 115

E.Q.: How does an author’s use of sentence structure impact the meaning of the text? • 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 • FROM… • Wednesday, 2 September, 1942 – Thursday, 12 November, 1942 • Friday, 25 September, 1942 • After reading, go back to this date and identify the sentence structure of the first 15 sentences in this diary entry.

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.

E.Q.: How does understanding an individual’s traits and emotions impact the meaning of the text? • How would you describe Anne? • What is her character? • What emotions does she express?

Reading Selections • FROM: • Tuesday, 17 November, 1942 – Friday, 12 March, 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.

E.Q.: How does the author’s use of figurative language affect the meaning of the text? • 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 • FROM: • Thursday, 18 March, 1943 – Monday, 26 July, 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.

E.Q.: How do an author’s personal experiences affect the meaning and understanding of the text? • 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 • FROM: • Thursday, 29 July, 1943 – Wednesday, 17 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. • Refer back to how Anne explained her routines.

E.Q.: How do demonstrate my comprehension of information from my reading? • 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 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! • Complete Bert’s Big Thank You!

Vocabulary: List #3: Advanced • morale – 122 • supple – 136 • saunter – 142 • tinge – 155 • coquettish – 168 • hospitable – 184 • sabotage – 193 • livid – 210 • pseudonym – 215 • jocular - 217

Vocabulary: List #3 • morale – 122 • saunter – 142 • hospitable – 184 • sabotage – 193 • pseudonym – 215

E.Q.: How do an author’s experiences and changes in life affect the understanding of the text? • What is life like in hiding? • Answer this question in your diary. • Use details from your reading.

Reading Selections • FROM: • Saturday, 27 November 1943 through Thursday, 27 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.

E.Q.: How do my personal experiences relate to the text? • 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 • FROM: • Friday, 28 January,1944 through 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.

E.Q.: How do I correctly use intensive pronouns? • 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 spained 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