Book Detail

Anne Frank

Publication Information
Author:  Poole, Josephine Illustrator:  Barrett, Angela
Title:  Anne Frank Date:  2005
Publisher:  Knopf City:  New York
ISBN, paperback:  0-375-83242-4 ISBN, hardback:  

Recommended audience:
ABE/ABLE:   Yes ESOL:  
Family:   Young Adult:   Yes
Picture:   Yes

General Information:
Book Type(s):    biography and autobiography

HSE Descriptor(s):    social studies

Summary:
If you wonder why read another book on Anne Frank, look at this beautifully and realistically illustrated story that simply relates the political situation and gives the characters more three-dimensional personalities. A chronology in the end papers adds to classroom use.

Teaching Ideas:
This book is a welcome addition to text sets on the Holocaust and on Anne Frank. Readers may want to keep a diary for a week or two using it to record reactions to events and then write a summary at the end of the time. If using this book with the actual Diary of Anne Frank, readers will want to make comparisons. They can also discuss how the characters in this book take shape from her diary. Since over 60 years have passed since the first printing of her diary, students might write an "unsent letter" to either Anne or Otto Frank to tell what difference the diary has made in the world. The end paper also gives the web site of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam www.annefrank.org.

Teaching Strategies:
bullet Reader's Theater
   http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/readers_theater.pdf
bullet Types of Journals
   http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/types_of_journals.pdf
bullet (Write and Share) 2
   http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/write_share2.pdf
bullet Venn Diagrams
   http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/venn_diagrams.pdf
bullet Unsent Letters
   http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/unsent_letters.pdf

Keywords: select any link below for a list of resources which also have that keyword
bullet Ethnic Groups > Jewish
bullet Emotions-Personal Issues > personal issues > individual > coming-of-age
bullet Emotions-Personal Issues > emotions > determination/perseverance
bullet Emotions-Personal Issues > emotions > fear
bullet Emotions-Personal Issues > personal issues > individual > life choices > taking risks
bullet Hardships > persecution
bullet History > topic > war > World War II > Holocaust
bullet History > topic > war > refugees > political relocation
bullet Social Studies > sociology > women > women in history
bullet History > region > Europe > well known people > Frank, Anne


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