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A Guide for Using Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl in the Classroom

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This is an excellent source to use as a teacher for 8th grade students. It gives quizzes, tests and several activities. Cross-curricular activities are also included.

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, this text was very wordy, very unhelpful as far as giving me things (printables) and tools to use in the classroom! It had a lot of pre-information and post-information about the war but as far as vocab instruction, a daily outline, any kind of outline...well it was just unmemorable and un-useful. Don't waste $9. Save up for the LitPack Plan. I know its like $29 but it's more in-depth and perfect for a busy teacher or even one that needs to stretch out class! There are the basics and extensions, user friendly and it provides EVERYTHING for you.

It's great resource for teachers as #1 said. It isn't a book to sit down and read!! It's a teacher resource book. Are you really that lame?

This book has a wonderful setting, but it bores you out. The book is interesting in the first twenty pages but then it gets so boring, it is a chore. I have even talked to friends about it and they say it is boring too. I do not recomend this book unless you like boring stories.

I'm sorry but I only read the REAL diary. If it's written by somebody else, then it's not really Anne Frank's diary, now is it? DON'T GET THIS ONE! GET THE REAL ONE! BY ANNE FRANK