For Term 4 our class have started a new Novel Study. Each reading group was assigned a book to study. My Group (Camp Half Blood), has been given a book called "Anne Frank: The Diary of A Young Girl".
It is about a 13 year old girl who has to hide in a Secret Annexe, because they are afraid of the Germans raiding their home, killing them, or sending them to a concentration camp. Interestingly, this book is based on Anne's diary that she was writing in while she was in hiding. I find it much easier to relate this way because I know these were real words coming from a real girl.
While I am reading, I can imagine her sitting, writing her diary, and it makes me enjoy this book much better than I thought I would.
Two years later (1942, two years after she had been in hiding), Anne and her family were found by Germans in the Annexe and Anne was sent to a concentration camp and eventually killed.
Anne Frank's diary was placed into this book after two workers found her notebook in the Annexe she had been hiding in. This book was then returned to her Father, Otto H. Frank, and he made Anne's wishes come true by publishing the book after it being proven to be a real diary from that time.
I haven't finished reading the book yet, it explains this information at the start of the book to give us an understanding while we are reading it. Throughout reading the book, we are required to do a Novel Study and complete a series of questions on a Google Slides set up for us kindly by our teachers.
In our Novel Study we also are able to do things like story webs, and we are also able to present our activities in creative ways like using Prezi, PiktoChart, and other DLO Sites. This helps us be excited to express our learning and I think it will affect the quality of our work in a good way.
To give you a better understanding of the book, here is the blurb:
The Diary Of a Young Girl
remains the single most poignant true-life story to emerge from the Second World War.
In July 1942 Anne Frank and her family, fleeing the horrors of Nazi occupation, hid in the back on an Amsterdam Warehouse. Anne was thirteen when the family went into the Secret Annexe and, over the next two years, she vividly describes in her diary the frustrations of living in such confined quarters, the constant threat of discovering, the hunger and fear. Her diary ends abruptly when, in August, 1944, she and her family were finally discovered by the Nazis.
Anne Frank died in March 1945, aged fifteen, in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany.
This book provides a deeply moving and unforgettable portrait of Anne Frank - an ordinary and yet an extraordinary teenage girl.
Here is a picture of the front cover of the book.
I definitely recommend this book to you, it is very interesting, and a great book to keep you occupied.
Have you read this book before?
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