Grove Christian School
8th Grade Summer Reading Assignment
Required Reading:
The Diary of Anne Frank, by Anne Frank
ISBN-13: 9780553296983
Over the summer you will read a book to help you prepare for the upcoming school year and to
improve your independent reading skills. You will be assessed on the novel during your first
weeks in Language Arts.
(The assignment will be collected and recorded as a quiz grade.)
Required Assignment:
The following questions will inspire critical thinking and your personal response to the literature.
Answer each in complete sentences. Your typed answers are due the first day of class.
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Describe Anne’s personality and explain why she continues to inspire so many people.
Identify the challenges and dangers of life in hiding.
Describe how Anne changes over the course of her two years in hiding.
Explain why Jewish people were forced to go into hiding during World War II.
Discuss why Anne Frank’s diary has become such a renowned account of this period
in history.
Explain the importance of primary documents as a historical resource.
Define the following terms: genocide, the Holocaust, racial “purity”/ethnic cleansing,
Nazi Germany, anti –Jewish Laws, and concentration camps.
Explain how the act of writing can serve as a means of resistance or assertion for the
disenfranchised and oppressed.