Journal Entries

Journal #1 Remember always to write the journal number, date, and the journal topic. Answer in complete sentences. Where do you see hatred in your everyday life? How do you and others around you respond?

Journal #2 Remember always to write the journal number, date, and the journal topic. Answer in complete sentences. At what school age do you believe that children are the most impressionable? Why that age?

Journal #3 Remember always to write the journal number, date, and the journal topic. Answer in complete sentences. How does social media (TV, internet, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) affect or influence our knowledge and attitude about events occurring around the world? Do you feel like we receive accurate information?

Journal #4 Remember always to write the journal number, date, and the journal topic. Answer in complete sentences. Describe a situation you have experienced where it was difficult to do the right thing. What made it difficult? What did you decide to do?

Journal #5 Remember always to write the journal number, date, and the journal topic. Answer in complete sentences. Tell about a time when you or someone you know stood up for someone else.

Journal #6 Remember always to write the journal number and the date. Answer in complete sentences. What is the best gift you have ever received? (Birthday, Christmas, Easter, etc.) Why was it special to you?

Journal #7 Remember always to write the journal number and the date. Answer in complete sentences. If you suddenly had to move to a totally foreign place, what would you miss the most? What would you look forward to?

Journal #8 Remember always to write the journal number, date, and the journal topic. Answer in complete sentences. Peter and Anne have very different personalities. Peter is very shy and quiet, and he describes himself as a “lone wolf.” Anne is very talkative and outgoing. She is also rebellious against the “accepted” behavior for young women of the time. Who are you more like----Peter or Anne? Why?

Journal #9 Remember always to write the journal number, date, and the journal topic. Answer in complete sentences. Anne Frank said, “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” What is one aspect of the world that you would like to see changed? What is the one thing you believe you could do to make the world a better place?

Journal #10 Remember always to write the journal number, date, and the journal topic. Answer in complete sentences. If Anne Frank had survived the Holocaust and you had the opportunity to talk with her, what would you ask her?

Journal #11 Remember always to write the journal number, date, and the journal topic. Answer in complete sentences. In Act 2, Anne expresses her wish to “go on living even after her death” and dreams of becoming a writer. What are your dreams for the future? What goals do you have in life?

Journal #12 Remember always to write the journal number, date, and the journal topic. Answer in complete sentences. After reading Anne’s diary, Otto Frank, Anne’s father, said, “I was very much surprised by the deep thoughts that Anne had.” Do you think your parents know you well? Do you think they would be surprised by the person you really are?