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Lydia Sheldon

Anne Frank Curriculum Unit Overview

Core text: The Diary of Anne Frank, Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett

5 weeks

Enduring UnderstandingsArticulating themes of adolescent development.Anne believes that the questions she and Peter ask as adolescents are unique to them.Is that true? Are the questions she asks unique because of her unique position locatedin a specific time and place?How are her questions/struggles similar to studentsown experiences?How are they dissimilar?How do the literary elements ofsettingand dramatic ironyinfluence the plot of theplay?What is the relevance of Anne Franks account to students today?How can students make address issues that are important in their own lives?

ObjectivesStudents will work in literature circles, participating in a variety of roles.Students will research a topic of their choice that connects toAnne Frank.Students will write a research paper, incorporating sources.Students will incorporate new background knowledge of particular historical momentinto study of a literary text.Students will begin to understand a texts themes both as universally true and located

within a particular context.Students will explore articulating themselves through their own journals.Stuents will annotate images andtext through note-taking.Students will define and locate dramatic irony and setting.Students will engage with a dramatic text through Readers Theatre.Students will read pictures as narrative, through photographs, paintings, andillustrations.Students will analyze film and news articles about teenagers who effect change intodays world.

Supplemental texts

Rose Blanche, Christophe Gallaz, Roberto InnocentiThe Cats of Krasinski Square, Karen HesseStar of Fear, Star of Hope, Jo HoestlandtHiding from the Nazis, David A. AdlerThe Key Game, Ida FinkRefugee Blues, W.H. AudenRefugee, 1939 Felix Nussbaum

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Photo of Jews in front of a travel agency, Berlin, 1939Would You Like a Star, Too?Ida VosNYT article: Dominique Browning, Burning the Diaries, September 30, 2011Emma Thompson speech, annefrank.orgPaper Clips, Eliot Berlin and Joe Fab (2004)

NYT Learning Network Blog: Teens in the Times

Follow-Up Texts for Independent StudyNumber the Stars, Lois LowryOdettes Secrets, Maryann MacDonaldThe Book Thief, Marcus Zusak

AssessmentLiterature circle analyses ofRefugee BluesReading check quizzesResearch papersJournalsLetters from Anne Frank

Yellow Star projectParticipation in text renderingDramatic irony T-ChartsWould-HaveLeaf projectLiterature circle tracking notes

Teens in the Times social media profile projectClass discussion