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Thinking Guide and Activities - Occasion Title of the Selection: Excerpt from The Diary of Anne Frank, Act One Scene 1 Genre: Drama

The Selection and Occasion Thinking Guide are provided. The Occasion Thinking Guide identifies the occasion, significant characters, and the outcome of the selection. In addition, the elements are color coded and used to develop a meaningful summary.

«Occasion Thinking Guide «Color-Coded Occasion Thinking Guide and Summary

The Occasion Thinking Guide is used to develop other fun and interactive activities. Fisher Reyna Education offers the following activities:

« Missing Summary-Part Activity « Matching Activity 1 « Matching Activity 2 « Thinking Guide Cloze 1st Letter Activity « Thinking Guide Cloze Blank Activity « Write Summary Elements Activity « Vocabulary – Using Context Clues

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Occasion Thinking Guide Fiction, Literary Nonfiction, Poetry or Drama

Title of the Selection: Excerpt from The Diary of Anne Frank, Act One Scene 1 Genre: Drama – Occasion

Occasion

What is the link? idea, setting, series of happenings, or situation

Miep tries to convince Mr. Frank to stay in Amsterdam after the war.

Significant Characters Mr. Frank, Miep

Outcome Mr. Frank struggles, and they discover Anne Frank’s diary which leads to a flashback of their hiding during the Holocaust.


Color-Coded Occasion Thinking Guide Fiction, Literary Nonfiction, Poetry or Drama

Title of the Selection: Excerpt from The Diary of Anne Frank, Act One Scene 1 Genre: Drama – Occasion

Occasion



Significant Characters Mr. Frank, Meip


After Mr. Frank discovers Anne’s diary, he recalls the events that lead to their hiding during

the Holocaust.


Missing Part Activity Excerpt from The Diary of Anne Frank, Act One, Scene 1

Directions Choose one of the following Thinking Guides, and instruct students to write the missing summary element as they read the selection.

Occasion What is the link? idea, setting, series of happenings, or situation





Significant Characters





Outcome


Matching Activity 1 Excerpt from The Diary of Anne Frank, Act One Scene 1

Directions Identify the summary part by writing letters for summary element in the blank.

OC for Occasion SC for Significant Characters

OU for Outcome

Mr. Frank, Meip


Mr. Frank struggles, and they discover Anne Frank’s diary which leads to a flashback of their hiding during the Holocaust.


Matching Activity 2

Directions Cut apart and place the summary parts by the correct summary element in the Thinking Guide.

Mr. Frank struggles, and they discover Anne Frank’s diary which leads to a flashback of their hiding during the Holocaust.

Mr. Frank, Meip




Outcome


Occasion Thinking Guide Cloze – 1st Letter Activity

Title of the Selection: Excerpt from The Diary of Anne Frank, Act One, Scene 1 Genre: Drama – Occasion Directions As selection is read, complete the words in the blanks with the first letter given.


M_____________ tries to convince Mr. F_________ to stay in A_______________ after the war.

Significant Characters Mr. F____________, Meip

Outcome Mr. Frank struggles, and they discover A___________ F____________ diary which leads to a f____________ of their hiding during the H_______________.


Occasion Thinking Guide Cloze – Blank Activity

Title of the Selection Excerpt from the Diary of Anne Frank, Act One, Scene 1 Genre: Drama – Occasion Directions As selection is read, fill in the blanks.


_____________ tries to convince Mr. ____________ to stay in _______________ after the war.

Significant Characters Mr. __________, Meip

Outcome Mr. Frank struggles, and they discover ___________ ____________ diary which leads to a flashback of their hiding during the ________________.


Occasion Thinking Guide Write Summary Elements Activity

Title of the Selection: Excerpt from The Diary of Anne Frank, Act One Scene 1 Genre: Drama – Occasion Directions Students take notes that include occasion, significant characters, and outcome. Implied summary elements increase the level of difficulty with this activity.

Occasion



Outcome


Excerpt from The Diary of Anne Frank, Act One Scene 1 Vocabulary – Using Context Clues

Note: This vocabulary activity should be used after students have read the article. Directions: Display the following vocabulary list. Ask the students to define the words they

recognize. Then reread the selection as the students listen for these words. After hearing one

of the listed words in context, ask students to give its definition. The words are listed in the

order in which they appear in the article.

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1 Text Excerpt(s) from: “The Diary of Anne Frank” (a play) by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett

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NAME: ________________________________ CLASS: _______________ Scene 1 Excerpt … Miep. Mr. Frank, you can’t leave here! This is your home! Amsterdam is your home. Your business is here, waiting for you… you’re needed here… Now that the war is over, there are things… Mr. Frank. I can’t stay in Amsterdam, Miep. It has too many memories for me. Everywhere there’s something… the house we lived in… the school… that street organ playing out there… I’m not the person you used to know, Miep. I’m a bitter old man. (Breaking off) Forgive me. I shouldn’t speak to you like this… after all that you did for us… the suffering… Miep. No. No. It wasn’t suffering. You can’t say we suffered. (As she speaks, she straightens her chair which is overturned.)

Mr. Frank. I know what you wen through, you and Mr. Kraler. I’ll remember it as long as I live. (He gives one last look around.) Come, Miep.

(He starts for the steps, then remembers his rucksack, going back to get it.)

Miep. (Hurrying up to the cupboard). Mr. Frank, did you see? There are some of your papers here. (She brings a bundle of papers to him.) We found them in a heap of rubbish on the floor after… after you left.

Mr. Frank. Burn them.

(He opens his rucksack to put the glove in it.)

Miep. But, Mr. Frank, there are letters, notes…

Mr. Frank. Burn them. All of them.

Miep. Burn this?

(She hands him a paperbound notebook.)

2 Text Excerpt(s) from: “The Diary of Anne Frank” (a play) by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett

Mr. Frank. (Quietly) Anne’s diary. (He opens the diary and begins to read.) “Monday, the sixth of July, nineteen forty-two.” (To Miep) Nineteen forty-two, is it possible, Miep?... Only three years ago? (As he continues his reading, he sits down on the couch.) “Dear Diary, since you and I are going to be great friends, I will start by telling you about myself. My name is Anne Frank. I am thirteen years old. I was born in Germany the twelfth of June, nineteen twenty-nine. As my family is Jewish, we emigrated to Holland when Hitler came to power.”

(As Mr. Frank reads on, another voice joins his, as if coming from the air. It is Anne’s voice.)

Mr. Frank and Anne. “My father started a business, importing spice and herbs. Things went well for us until nineteen forty. Then the war came, and the Dutch capitulation, followed by the arrival of the Germans. Then things got very bad for the Jews.”

(Mr. Frank’s voice dies out. Anne’s voice continues alone. The lights dim slowly to darkness. The curtain falls on the scene.)

Anne’s Voice. You could not do this and you could not do that. They forced Father out of his business. We had to wear yellow stars. I had to turn in my bike. I couldn’t go to a Dutch school any more. I couldn’t go to the movies, or ride in an automobile, or even on a streetcar, and a million other things. But somehow we children still managed to have fun. Yesterday Father told me we are going into hiding. Where, he wouldn’t say. At five o’clock this morning Mother woke me and told me to hurry and get dressed. I was to put on as many clothes as I could. It would look too suspicious if we walked along carrying suitcases. It wasn’t until we were on our way that I learned where we were going. Our hiding place was to be upstairs in the building where Father used to have his business. Three other people were coming in with us… the Van Daans and their son Peter… Father knew the Van Daans but we had never met them…

(During the last lines the curtain rises on a scene. The lights dim on. Anne’s voice fades out.)

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