IB Language A
The Diary of a Young Girl
Essential Question:
How do we want to be remembered?
Mr. Austin Murphy
Thurgood Marshall Academy
Table of Contents
EQ, The Task, Areas of Interaction (AoI), Objectives, Assessment, Expectations...... 3
Components, Due Dates, and Grading Breakdown...... 4
Trading Card Instructions...... 5-8
Diary Evaluation Worksheets...... 9-14
Reading Schedule……….15
Character Profile of Anne………..16-18
Journal Prompts...... 19
Journal Log...... 20-21
Journal Audit……….22
Personal Essay Assignment...... 23-25
Rubrics...... 26-29
IB Learner Profile……….30
Essential Question
How do we want to be remembered?
The Task
Working individually, students will read Anne Frank’s “The Diary of a Young Girl”, concurrently completing their own journal and selecting one or several pieces for expansion into a personal essay.
Areas of Interaction (AoI)
· Human Ingenuity
· Environments
· Health and Social Education
Objectives
· Use a creative writing process
· Undertake meaningful and relevant self-reflection
· Connect text-to-text, text-to-self, text-to-world
· Evaluate, assess, and edit writing to maximize intended impact upon a reader
· Manage time & assignment schedule
Assessment
· Evaluate and summarize historical context of Anne Frank’s life and diary
· Describe diary medium and explain its effectiveness as a historical record
· Maintain personal journal consisting of responses to text and other personal thoughts/reflections
· Assess journal writing and expand selections into personal essay
Expectations
· You are expected to keep up with all reading assignments; quizzes on the reading will not be announced ahead of time.
· You are expected to arrive to class on time with your copy of Diary of a Young Girl, the IB packet, and your journal (after you have received it). This does not mean that you come to class and then ask to go to your locker. This means you arrive at class prepared.
· You are expected to follow all classroom instructions fully and demonstrate maturity at all times.
Components
By the end of the unit, students will have completed:
· Anne Frank trading card
· Diary Evaluation worksheet
· Character Profile of Anne Frank
· Twenty Journal Entries
· Journal Log with Date, Reflections, and Time Spent on each entry
· Journal Audit
· Personal Essay
· Completed IB Packet
Due Dates
Each component will be completed by the date that follows:
· Anne Frank trading card – Friday, February 5th
· Diary Evaluation worksheet – Friday, February 12th
· Character Profiles of Anne Frank - Monday, February 22nd
· Twenty Journal Entries, Journal Log, and Log Audit- Monday, March 15th
· Personal Essay - Friday, March 26th
· Completed IB Packet – Friday, March 26th
Grading Breakdown
Ninth Grade English is graded with the following percentages:
· Major Papers and Projects - 25%
· Quizzes and Exams - 25%
· Homework - 20%
· Active Participation - 20%
· Conduct/Professionalism - 10%
Trading Card, Diary Evaluation Worksheet, and Character Profiles will be considered as both Homework and Active Participation. Journal Entries, Log, and Audit are Homework. Personal Essay is a Major Paper. Handing in this Completed IB Packet at the end of the unit is a Major Project. There will be periodic reading quizzes and exams. Arriving at class on time and prepared will be part of your Conduct/Professionalism grade, as will cooperation in all class activities.
Anne Frank Trading Card Assignment
Before we read "The Diary of a Young Girl", we are going to learn a bit about the author, Anne Frank. Anne was not a famous or privileged person, but her diary has been translated into dozens of languages and read by millions of people since her death. She had no advantage over any one of us except for a desire to write and record her daily life and observations.
The Task
We will read the following short biography of Anne Frank as a class. Individually, you will each summarize information that you feel would be most important to someone with no
knowledge of Anne Frank's life or diary. Using these facts, you will design a trading card that highlights Anne Frank's importance as a historical figure.
(This biographical information can be found at http://people.smu.edu/fnichols/).
Anne Frank was born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany as the second daughter of Otto Frank and Edith Hollander Frank. Anne spent the first few years of her life in a mixed neighborhood of Christian and Jewish children, and spent many afternoons playing with her older sister, Margot. In March 1933, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party was elected in Frankfurt, and anti-Semitic measures were put into effect immediately. Otto Frank, fearing for his family’s safety, began to search for a new home in Amsterdam. Edith, Margot, and Anne moved to Aachen, Germany to stay with their grandmother until Otto Frank secured a new job and an apartment in Amsterdam. Otto was joined by the rest of his family in February 1934. Anne began school and attended a Montessori school where she enjoyed reading and writing.
Anne had a very good relationship with her sister, although their personalities were polar opposites. Anne was very outgoing, energetic and extraverted, while Margot was quiet, dedicated to her studies and introverted. The next few years in the Netherlands were relatively quiet, but the Franks kept hearing stories from friends in Germany about the deteriorating conditions for the Jewish population.
Otto Frank established a second company in June 1938 with Herman Van Pels, whose family would join the Franks in their hiding place. The Van Pels had also fled Germany in 1938 because of the escalating anti-Semitism. The escalating anti-Semitism also became evident in the Netherlands, and in May 1940, the Germans invaded the Netherlands, and immediately began to impose restrictions on the Jewish population. The restrictions included the registration of all Jews, segregation into Jewish schools, and the requirement that Jews wear a yellow star to distinguish them from other citizens.
In 1941, Anne started to attend the Jewish Lyceum, and had to leave many of her friends behind, and was discouraged to talk to them. The discriminatory laws continued to get worse over the course of the next year. Anne experienced a brief period of happiness when she turned 13 on June 12, 1942. Anne received a red, blue, and white plaid autograph book from her father, which she decided to use as a diary.
In July 1942, Margot received a notice to report for transportation to a Jewish work camp. Otto Frank then informed Anne of their plan to hide in the rooms behind Otto’s office at 263 Prinsengracht. This plan had to be moved up a few weeks so that Margot would not be forced to go to the camp. The Franks moved into the Secret Annexe on the morning of July 6, 1942. According to Anne, she had to squeeze into two vests, three pairs of pants, a dress, a skirt, a jacket, a summer coat, two pairs of stockings, lace-up shoes, a woolly cap, and a scarf before leaving for the Secret Annexe because if the Franks had suitcases, they would look very suspicious.
The Franks were eventually joined by four others in their hiding place: the Van Pels family and Fritz Pfeffer (the family dentist and friend). Anne recorded the most intimate details of daily life during her two-year stay in the Secret Annexe, and conveyed her fear of being discovered almost daily. The members of the Secret Annexe passed time reading and studying. Anne wrote almost daily in her diary until her last diary entry on August 1, 1944. Three days later on August 4, 1944, the Franks, Van Pels, and Mr. Pfeffer were discovered and arrested by the Gestapo. They were then sent on to concentration camps. All members of the Secret Annex except Otto Frank died in the camps. It is believed that Anne died of typhus in February or March 1945.
When Otto Frank returned to Amsterdam, he was given Anne’s diary that had been forgotten when the Gestapo came. The diary was first published in German in 1947, and then published in America in 1952. Several films and documentaries have also been made about Anne’s experience in the Secret Annexe. Eleanor Roosevelt wrote the introduction to the diary’s American edition, and described the diary as “one of the wisest and most moving commentaries on war and its impact on human beings that I have ever read.”
Trading Card Example
Notice: Attention-grabbing artwork on the front, Name and Stats on the back (I would do age and location instead of height and weight for Anne Frank), and COMPLETE SENTENCES in the description of the character.
Discussion Questions
1) What is the purpose of the artwork on the front of the card? How does it enhance the card's appeal?
2) The written portion ends with the phrase, "he's surprised to learn that his greatest adventures lay ahead." Why does the card not tell the whole story? What is to be gained by leaving the reader in suspense?
Requirements
· Your card must feature an image on the front
· Your card must contain information of at least four COMPLETE SENTENCES on the back
· Your card must attempt to entice a viewer to learn more about Anne Frank's story
· Your card must be written using your own words (no plagiarism)
Anne Frank Trading Card
Front Back
Questions
1) Justify the choices you made for the information you used on the card.
2) In your opinion, what aspect of your card is unique and would make someone want to buy it?
3) How did you entice the viewer to learn more about Anne Frank?
A Diary as a Historical Document
As you probably know from Global, there are two main types of historical documents; primary and secondary sources. Primary sources are actual records that have survived from the past, such as letters, photographs, articles of clothing. Secondary sources are accounts of the past created by people writing about events sometime after they happened.
What sort of source is “Diary of a Young Girl”? Why?
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Who Writes Diaries?
Everyone and anyone can write a diary. There are only two rules: write every day and include the date. What determines if others are ultimately interesting in reading a diary are honesty, detail, language, humor, self-criticism, dreams, doubts, mysteries, memories, goals and fears. If it is an honest personal expression encompassing the senses, emotions, memories, and imagination, it will be of interest to the diarist and others.
What are diaries?
Diaries are authentic records of time and place because they are dated observations. They can be private or as public as internet blogs. Traditional diaries are often treasured as micro-histories, depictions of an individual in a specific time and place. Diaries are sometimes tools used by writers and artists as a source of inspiration, exploration of interests, as a way of charting growth, remembering experiences, tracking habits, or as an exercise in freedom.
Where do people write diaries?
People write wherever they can carve a space of their own. Some place no one will be looking over their shoulder. Wherever it is light enough to see and warm enough to relax. Someplace they can hear their own voice. Wherever they can concentrate on their inner self and let their hands move across the page uninterrupted. As most of us know, it takes practice to be able to block out a noisy background.
Since when have people written diaries?
The court ladies of old Japan who lived from 1009 to 1059 kept diaries. Lewis and Clark wrote almost 5,000 pages on their Corp of Discovery in 1803-1806 as they traveled into unknown western territory. A woman named Mary Henry kept a diary of personal insights into Washington during the Civil War, including April 12, 1865, on the death of President Lincoln. Another wartime diary, titled Last Night I Dreamed of Peace, was written by a 27 year old North Vietnamese female doctor named Dang Thuy Tram who died caring for the wounded Viet Cong. Slaves, pirates, prisoners and children like Anne Frank have kept diaries. Virginia Wolf and Thomas Mann used the diary to cull ideas for books and to keep the voice within going strong and writer’s block at bay. Anais Nin wrote diaries to explore and record her desires and fantasies. Artist Andy Warhol began his diary when his accountant hounded him to keep track of his expenses – and his diary turned into a who’s who in the art world.
Why write a diary?
Everyone has their own reasons for keeping a diary. Public of private, all diaries are a form of communication and sometimes reach the level of art. Self expression is healthy and natural – it makes people feel connected to themselves and to others. Through art forms such as writing, people discover their own individuality and come to value the large diverse humanity we are all part of. There is no such thing as normal or average. No one chooses where and when to be born and yet we do have a say in who we become. A record of life, in our own words, can be comforting. It can also help change the world.
The Task
On the following pages are five sample diary entries. Your assignment is to answer the following questions about each entry:
· Name of Diarist
· Date of Entry
· Summary of the events described in the entry
· Assessment of the motives of the diarist. (Why did they keep the diary, for self expression or to maintain a personal or historical record? Why?)
· Assessment of the historical value of the entry (What can we learn about the time period or life of the writer from the entry?)
1) March 17, 1127 Galbert of Bruges
And it should be known that I, Galbert, a notary, though I had no suitable place for writing, set down on tablets a summary of events; I did this in the midst of such a great tumult and the burning of so many houses, set on fire by lighted arrows shot onto the roofs of the town from within the castle (and also by brigands from the outside in the hope of looting) and in the midst of so much danger by night and conflict by day. I had to wait for moments of peace during the night or day to set in order the present account of events as they happened, and in this way, though in great straits, I transcribed for the faithful what you see and read. I have not set down individual deeds because they were so numerous and so intermingled but only noted carefully what was decreed and done by common action throughout the siege, and the reasons for it; and this I have forced myself, almost unwillingly, to commit to writing.