Background for Diary of Anne Frank April 1, 2014

Tuesday’s E.Q. What were the major personal and historical events that affected the Frank family? Bellringer: Write down as much information as you can remember about World War II, the Holocaust, and Anne Frank.

Key Vocab Anti-Semitism – discrimination against or prejudice or hostility toward Jews Deported – to expel from a country; banish; to send or carry off forcibly. Emigrate – to leave one country or region to settle in another (Immigrate means to move to a country) Jewish ghetto – a section of a city in which all Jews were required to live

Amsterdam The capital city of the Netherlands

Anne Frank and her house

Instructions Turn to page 850. Read the timeline. List 3 facts that you think are the most important facts that affected the Frank family.

Group Work: With your group, discuss your answers and choose the 3 facts that you agree are the most crucial ones.

Exit Slip Summarize what you learned today and World War II and the Frank family. Explain why the 3 important facts your group chose were significant events for them.

Thursday’s E.Q. What were the key events in today’s reading of The Diary of Anne Frank?

Stage Directions Words written in italics that tell how a character should say a line, what movements to make, or how to set up the stage itself.

Aside A line that can be heard by the audience but not by other characters.

Soliloquy A literary device often used in drama when a character speaks to himself or herself, relating thoughts and feelings, thereby also sharing them with the audience. Ex: Anne’s diary entries at the end of each scene.

Yellow Stars

Exit Slip Explain the “exposition” of the play. What are the 3 key events that we have read about today? What is the setting? Who are the main characters?

Friday’s E.Q. How has the dialogue revealed aspects of the characters so far? Quickwrite: How did we leave our characters yesterday?

Key Vocab Remember from Monday: Character Motivation Complex Characters

As you read: Be on the lookout for important lines of dialogue that reveal certain aspects of the characters.

Exit Slip: List 3 lines of dialogue and describe what that line reveals about the character(s).