THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK

Eighth Grade English

PROOFREADING WARM-UP To excape the German concentration

camps, the Jewish family of Otto Frank went into hiding in 1942. During the families two years in hide, 13-year-old anne frank kept a diary. She wrote her last diary entry on August 1 1944. Three days later, police raided the family's hiding place. Anne and her sister were shiped to a concentration camps. Anne died their nine months later. Since that time, Anne's diary has been publish in 30 languages.

GAME TIME!!!! You have been

broken into groups based on your choice of ribbon colors.

Please break into groups now.

Tootsie Rolls will be awarded for all correct answers. You will have 30 seconds to answer each question.

GRAMMAR GAME RULES: Green Team

You may speak anytime that is appropriate.

Silver TeamYou may speak when Green or I speak to

you.

Gold TeamYou may speak when Silver, Green, or I give

you permission.

QUESTION ONE--GREEN What is a

noun? A person, place,

or thing.

QUESTION TWO—SILVER TEAM What are the

five stages of plot development.

Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.

QUESTION THREE—GREEN What is an

adjective? A word that

modifies or describes a noun.

QUESTION FOUR—GOLD TEAM What is an

infinitive? Identify the infinitive in the following sentence?He tried to do his

best in the race.

An infinitive is a verb that can be used as a noun. …to do his best.

QUESTION FIVE—GREEN Give one

example of when to use a period in a sentence.

At the end of a sentence, as a decimal, in an abbreviation, etc.

QUESTION SIX—SILVER What is the

theme of a story?

A lesson the author is trying to teach. It often answers a question.

QUESTION SEVEN--GREEN What three

things are needed in a complete sentence?

A subject, a verb, and a complete thought.

QUESTION EIGHT--GOLD Give an example

of a sentence using a conjunction that serves as a preposition in a compound sentence with flibberty-gibbet as the objective complement.

A variety of answers could be correct. The teacher or

the Green team will decide on the correctness of the answer.

QUESTION NINE—GREEN TEAM When someone

writes their own life story, we call it an…

Autobiography

QUESTION TEN—SILVER TEAM What are the

five elements of fiction?

Plot, setting, theme, characters, and point of view.

QUESTION ELEVEN--GREEN What group was

being persecuted in “The Devil’s Arithmetic?”

The Jews

QUESTION TWELVE--SILVER What does

marranos mean? A Jew who

turned away from their religion and became Christian.

QUESTION THIRTEEN—GREEN What does aryan

mean? It is Hitler’s ideal

race. Tall, blue-eyed, and blonde.

QUESTION FOURTEEN—GOLD What was the

“Final Solution” during the 1940’s?

The cover name for the plan to destroy the Jews of Europe - the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question." Beginning in December 1941, Jews were rounded up and sent to extermination camps in the East. The program was deceptively disguised as "resettlement in the East."

GAME OVER…WE ARE BACK TO REGULAR CLASSROOM RULES. How did this

activity make you feel?

What did you notice?

How does this relate to the Holocaust?