This week we will continue using The Diary of Anne Frank to explore concepts in the Language Arts curriculum. Your Reading 4 task sheet is due today, Monday 5/6, as well as your edited paragraph. Your new task sheet is posted below. During the week we will also practice writing Critical Response answers to various Social Studies prompts. Be prepared to analyze and explain cause and effect relationships.
Task sheet for those reading The Diary of Anne Frank:
Due Wednesday, 5/15
Name __________________________________________________________ Per. ____
Anne Frank Reading 5
I. Vocabulary: Define each word. Choose five words and create five sentences using those words.
reproached livid pseudonym jocular
piccalilli teetotaler coherent explicitly
capping incalculable loathed
asylum discord
II. Respond: Restate the question in your answer. Use complete sentences.
- How did Anne’s feelings about Peter affect her relationships with others in the Secret Annexe?
- How did their surroundings affect Anne and Peter’s relationship?
- How did Anne describe the natural world in this selection
- Compare Anne’s thoughts on living in hiding on January 28, 1944 with earlier entries about life in hiding.
- On March 17, 1944, Anne writes about wanting to be independent. What does the word independence mean to you? How has its meaning changed for you as you have grown up?
III. Reflect
Choose two. Write at least five complete eighth grade sentences.
- On January 2, 1944, Anne writes about how valuable the diary is to her. Write a letter to Anne telling her the ways a diary would be valuable to you.
- Anne writes about seeing herself through someone else’s eyes (January12, 1944). Describe yourself through someone else’s eyes – a parent’s view, a close friend’s, or a sibling’s.
- O February 12 and 14, 1944, Anne writes of her longing to be alone. Write about a time when you wanted to say, “Leave me in peace, leave me alone,” as Anne does. Describe a place where you can go to be alone. Reflect on Anne’s last sentence of the entry for that date: “Who knows, the day may come when I’m left alone more than I would wish!”
- On March 20 and 22, 1944, Anne copies into her diary the letters she and Margot exchanged in the Secret Annexe. Write your own letter to Anne.
IV. Project
The Way It Was
How do personal reminiscences help historians? Create a personal time capsule. You will be given a large plastic zip-lock bag. (See Ms. Grinnell when you are ready to get your bag.) You will include ten small artifacts (or pictures of) that will give future historians a sense of what it is like to be a young person right now. On a sheet of loose leaf describe the artifact and explain why the artifact is important to future understanding on this time in history.
Due date Wednesday, May 15th
V. Discussion and Resource Pages
“Homeless”
“A Dead Child Speaks”
“Eyewitnesses at Auschwitz-Birkenau”
“Jenny Misuchin – Jewish Resistance Fighter”
Monday, 5/6:
Classwork
Warm-up: Solve this brain teaser. Try to find the common expression represented in this visual:
STEP
PETS
PETS
Class activity:
Review guidelines for Social Studies MSL Critical Responses
Practice cold writing of a critical response for the following prompt:
Select a global war in which the United States was involved. Give two reasons why the United States entered the war, and explain the impact of that U.S. involvement on international affairs.
Score each others' responses based on a 0-3 scale. Did your response answer all parts of the question? Was your information accurate?
Homework: none
Tuesday, 5/7
Classwork
Warm-up: Where must a referee be to blow a whistle?
Class activity:
Practice cold writing of a critical response for the following prompt:
How did the Great Depression affect the United States during the first part of the 20th century? Analyze two effects of the Great Depression on the national economy, and explain how the relationship between government and citizens was altered
Score each others' responses based on a 0-3 scale.
Read for comprehension Anne Frank. Work on new task sheet.
Homework: work on task sheet
Wednesday, 5/8
Classwork
Warm-up: Solve these brain teasers. Try to find the common expressions or phrases represented in the visuals.
1. T RN
2. M E
A L
3. B
A E
D U M R
Read for comprehension Anne Frank. Work on new task sheet.
Practice cold writing of a critical response for the following prompt: Explain how tensions between British governmental authority and the American colonists contributed to the American Revolution. Include a specific example in your responses.
Score each others' responses based on a 0-2 scale
Homework: work on task sheet.
Thursday, 5/9
Warm-up: Solve the mind challenge:
My cousin Johanna can predict the future when she pets her black poodle. How is this possible?
Read article "Leopold Engleitner, oldest concentration camp survivor, dies"
On your warm-up sheet, record the different character traits of Leopold based on what was inferred or in the article.
Read article "Justin Bieber hopes Anne Frank 'would have been a belieber"
Watch the news report at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/14/justin-bieber-anne-frank-belieber_n_3080547.html
On your warm-up sheet explain whether or not you think the newscast showed bias.
On your warm-up sheet write a five line response about Justin Bieber's comment from one of the following perspectives:
Anne Frank
Leopold Engleitner
Justin Bieber (in defense of his comment)
