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Anne Frank Diary of a Young Girl : A Unit Plan (Litplans on CD)

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I am an extremely busy middle school (6-8) Reading and Language Arts Teacher. At the beginning of the year, I was told that I would only teach Reading but because of budget and number of kids they also asked me to teach LA even though I haven't taught it in previous years. So, all the things I had planned on doing so elaborately with my Reading classes had to be cut-down. However, I have an 7th/8th grade mostly gifted group and wanted to give them a challenge. I chose Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl because it was below level as far as a lot of their lexiles are concerned but instructional level for some of the contextual clue vocab and situational information. A lot of them didn't know what a fountain pen was..

However, the Lit Plan Pack was AMAZING!!! It gave me discussion questions, vocab, multiple choice tests, written tests, lots of extensions, and cross curricular exercises. It is the best product ever and I will continue to buy it for other "chapter books" we read as a class. There are many great activities but because I am limited with time I choose to read parts of the selections in class to them, then give them context clue vocab and open ended discussion questions and give them a week to read 30 pages and do the above. Then, on Friday we go over the answers, and they have about 10 minutes to study (although most of them are quite familiar with the material because they have gone over it many times throughout the week). Then, I will them matching vocab and the multiple choice questions as their test. There is so much more that I am not taking advantage of because I don't have the time but it is perfect for my needs as a busy teacher!