Semester 2 (approx. 4-5 weeks)
Central Text
Selections
Grade 8 - Intensive Reading - Collection 5 - Anne Frank’s Legacy – click for thematic connections
Close Reader
Selections
Anchor Text:
Drama: The Diary of Anne Frank by
Frances Goodrich and Albert
Hackett p. 279
LG: Analyze the key elements of a
drama, including its structure,
characters, dialogue, and events.
Close Reader:
Drama: The Diary of Anne
Frank; Act I, Scenes 1 and 2
p. 354c
Diary: The Diary of a Young Girl by
Anne Frank 1020L, p. 355
LG: Cite the textual evidence that
most strongly supports an analysis
of what the text says explicitly as
well as inferences drawn from the
text.
EQs:
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How do you create a personal legacy?
Why is the Holocaust still important?
Reading Focus
Writing Focus
Drama
Playwright
Script
Cast
Setting
Scenes
Analyze Characters
Hyperbole
Dialogue
Parallelism
Rhetorical Devices
Chronological Order
Irony
Tone
Flashback
Diary
Inference
Point-of-View
Personification
Author’s Purpose
Ethical Appeal
Sound Devices
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Achieve 3000
Kylene Beers Discussion Terms
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Analyze Characters: Interactive Whiteboard Lesson:
Character Development
Compare and Contrast Structure: Interactive Graphic
Organizer
Evaluate Reasoning
Analyze elements of a Speech
Intertextual Unit:
“Decisions”
Language Focus
Related Works:
(grammar, vocabulary, syntax)
Golden Novel:
The Giver
(Novel will be addressed
in QBA2 Exam)
Denotation
Connotation
Idiom
Pun
Analogy
Simile
Metaphor
Latin Suffix(-able, ible)
Ellipses
Related Works:
“Holy Sonnet 10” by
John Donne
“Meditation 10” by John
Donne
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communicate (communicated, communicable)
draft (drafting, drafted)
liberation (liberate, liberal)
philosophy (philosopher, philosophic)
publish (publishing, publication, public)
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Theme: Interactive Whiteboard Lesson: Theme/Central
Idea
Paraphrase
Analyze Imagery: Interactive Whiteboard Lesson:
Figurative Language and Imagery
Performance
Task A: Write an
Expository Essay
p. 389
Task A: Expository
Essay Rubric 392
Collection 5 Test
OPT: Tic-tac-toe
board
Terrible Things by Eve
Bunting
Extensions - Secondary Gifted Resources
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Online Selection
Tests
Summative
Assessments:
Academic Vocabulary
Poem: “There but for the Grace” by
Wislawa Szymborska p. 385
LG: Determine the meaning of
words and phrases as they are used
in a text, including figurative and
connotative meanings; analyze the
impact of specific word choices on
meaning and tone, including
analogies or allusions to other texts.
Formative and
Summative
Assessments
Teengagement
Discussion
Perform a Skit
Speech: “After Auschwitz” by Elie
Wiesel p. 379
LG: Delineate a speaker’s argument
and specific claims, evaluating the
soundness of the reasoning and
relevance and sufficiency of the
evidence and identifying when
irrelevant evidence is introduced.
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related fyi articles)
Character Sketch
Expository
Analysis
Listening & Speaking
Focus
Literary Criticism: from Anne Frank:
The Book, The Life, The Afterlife by
Francine Prose 1410L p.369
LG: Analyze how differences in the
points of view of the characters and
the audience or reader (e.g.,
created through the use of dramatic
irony) create such effects as
suspense or humor.
Additional
Suggested
Resources
Print Version
Related Texts:
Reality Central
Interventions ESE Accommodations - ELL Strategies - ELL Accommodations
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Analyze Elements of a Drama: Level Up Tutorial
Analyze Text: Elements of a Diary
Determine Author’s Point of View: Level Up Tutorial:
Author’s Perspective
Analyze Persuasive Techniques: Level Up Tutorial:
Persuasive Techniques
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Analyze Sound Devices: Level Up Tutorial: Elements of
Poetry
Collection 5: Thematic Connections (Teacher Version)
While Szymborska was able to survive WWII,
Anne Frank did not. However, both left literary
contributions that can play a role in how future
generations understand the events of that war
and the Holocaust.
The Diary of Anne Frank: Anne Frank, a
13-year-old girl, hid in an attic in
Amsterdam with her family, the Van
Daan family, and Mr. Dussel throughout
WWII. The diary that she kept helped
her throughout her time there, and it
left a personal account for others to
learn about their experiences. This diary
was later turned into a drama to reach
even more audiences.
“There but for the Grace”: Szymborska, a
Polish citizen throughout WWII, suggests
that “luck” played a significant role in
survival during WWII. Her poem essentially
suggests that any and everything could have
been the reason that she and others survived
while 5 million Poles did not. They all remain
connected because they survived by chance
while so many others did not.
Anne Frank lived in an unimaginable time in
unimaginable circumstances, but she remains
an identifiable teenager going through some of
the same challenges that teenagers face today
growing up with both internal and external
struggles. She dealt with those struggles,
oftentimes, by writing her thoughts down in a
diary that transcended her lifetime.
The Diary of a Young Girl: Anne writes in her
diary about the challenges that she faces daily
with her family and her emotions. Her
difficulties with her personal biases, her family,
and roommates make her relatable across time
and distance, but her thoughts about war, her
daily life, her own survival, and her mortality
are often unique to her situation.
Anne Frank’s Legacy
How do you create a
personal legacy?
Wiesel and Szymborska survived the Holocaust,
perhaps by luck, and continue to share their stories so
that those generations to follow this large-scale atrocity
can learn from it. If people learn to recognize the
similarities that we all share, then they can have a hand
in making genocide a historical concept. Perhaps we
can learn to see the beauty and tragedy in everyone.
“After Auschwitz”: Elie Wiesel gave a speech at
the 50th anniversary of the liberation of
Auschwitz. His speech commemorated those
lost and persecuted during WWII, and then he
connected the atrocities of the Holocaust with
current conflicts in Bosnia, Rwanda, and
Chechnya. We remember Wiesel because of
his memoir Night, but this text reminds us that
the nightmares from the Holocaust are not
simply distant history. We, as a planet, need to
remember these atrocities and prevent them
from recurring in new forms.
Why is the Holocaust
still important?
Those who lived through the Holocaust provide
a unique and tragic perspective on what it is like
to see war and genocide impact everything
around you. The writings of these authors have
enlightened generations about their
experiences, and it is essential to encourage the
documentation of history no matter how small
the scale may seem at the time.
Anne Frank was a young girl, but her experiences
were anything but innocent. The magnitude of her
thoughts on war and genocide, as well as her desire
to become a professional writer, led to a text on par
with more mature authors. She, however, still
remains a relatable teenager to allow young adults
today to connect to her and try to understand
everyday life for some during WWII.
Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The
Afterlife: Anne Frank’s diary has become
one of the most famous documents from
WWII and the Holocaust-era. While she
was “only” a 13-year-old girl, she wrote a
literary piece to compare to any other
piece of literature through the ages.
Collection 5: Thematic Connections (Student Version)