jueves, 29 de abril de 2010

WRITING

COMMENTS ABOUT THE DIARY OF THE YOUNG GIRL

Veronica Alvarado Oscanoa IVº sec

I love this book, actually it's one of my favourites.With this book parents can feel related because Anne Frank was a teenager like us. And thousands of times she may had argues with her parents.She like us fell in love, she had feelings and she wanted to succeed but some pitiful people killed her.This book taught me that families always have to be together. There's no place like home.




Xymena Nino 3rd Grade Secundary :)

Anne wrote about everything that she and her family felt when they were hiding on the basement. She bears it all and she was only a young girl who wanted to be a magnificent writer, get around the world, fall in love... just being a ordinary girl with many dreams.I like this book because it’s a really sad story and it teaches us to value our life and be grateful because we are living in peaceful society without any wars and danger.



Melissa Berrocal IIIº

In my opinion if I were Anne Frank maybe I would be complaining about "Why I had to pass this? Or Why God sent me here?", but Anne Frank only said that God do things for something.Despite of all her problems and her fears she was in love and for me that was something extremely beautiful and her only wish was to be alive with her relatives.I am proud of her because despite of the war she just thought to succeed after war and have a family and maybe others like me just thought to die.



Milagros Sandoval. III sec.


I like this book because it tells a true story of a girl as any of us who pass through the Second World War and went into hiding two years of the Nazis in Amsterdam. Caught my attention because she wanted to be a writer of great and not what might be, but his father published the diaries that she has written telling her life in those 2 years as was her wish. For me the history of Anna Frank is a big success and it is amazing to know that was real.

Piera Franco Lam - IV° Sec.


Well, I think that Anne Frank had a vey hard life and we can identify with her , because she was only a teenager that had to pass in the time of the second world war.And we can see the discrimination to the Jews, for example the different schools, they were not allowed to travel by bus or train or they had to be indoors by 8 o'clock at night.In conclusion it’s a wonderful book for all the ages especially for teenagers, I recommend the book for everyone that want to read an interesting story.





GRAMMAR

martes, 27 de abril de 2010

FINAL EXAM

DEAR STUDENST

IT IS KNOWN THAT YOUR FINAL EXAM IS COMMING AND YOU ALREADY KNOW WHICH PART OF THE BOOK YOU MUST TAKE INTO ACCOUNT. HOWEVER, I KNOW YOU REALLY LIKE PAYING ME UR ATTENTING THAT`S WHY I AM GOING TO GIVE YOU AGAIN WHAT YOU MUST STUDY.

GRAMMAR: TEST (INTENSIFIERS), PAG17 (DURING AND FOR), PRESENT PERFECT AND SIMPLE PAST.
VOCABULARY: PG17,13 AND 7. ( I AM GOING TO ASK FOR DEFINITION NOT FOR TRANSLATION)

WRITING: PG15 ( CLOTHES) * CHECK AND COMPARE YOUR MISTAKES YOU HAD IN YOUR LAST WRITING.

domingo, 18 de abril de 2010

miércoles, 14 de abril de 2010

INTERMEDIATE STUDENTS (4TH & 5TH GRADE)

Dear students
I am glad to know that you really care about your score. Of course you need to work a bit harder to get a high level, so let`s start and check what you need to change your zero.
Students from 2nd and 3rd grade are working on preparing all about the papergraphs and some performances but I need also your help with some activities that you will find above.
First, choose one of the activities and with the help of the information you will get there make a new one activity or just copy and paste (if it`s clear and understandable) in document work, print in a colourful paper and bring it to the class. Of course you will have to explain yours in the expossition.
Let`s see!
Enrichment Activities

Acrostic Poem
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Write an acrostic poem that describes Anne Frank's character. Use her diary as a reference
The Anne Frank and Miep Gies Connection
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After reading a Dateline report on Miep Gies, who was a friend to Anne Frank's family, students
answer questions about Miep's life.
Culminating Projects
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Students choose from a selection of five motivating and thought-provoking projects. Projects include extending Anne's diary entries, analyzing her Gemini personality traits, and completing "what if" scenarios. Use the Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl Project Ideas sheet
Draw a Floor Plan
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Have students draw a floor plan of what they think the annex looked like, based on Anne's descriptions in her diary.
TeacherVision's World War II Theme
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Check out the lessons in our World War II Theme. Activities and resources include a timeline of the war, a photographic images lesson, and more.
"What If" Creative Writing
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Give students the following question to answer: If you had to go into hiding for an indefinite period of time, what objects or materials would you take with you? Have them write on the blank journal page and then display their writing for others to see.
Comprehension Checks
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Check your students' comprehension of Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl with various tests.

THAT`S THE FORMAT THAT WE SHOULD FOLLOW IN OUR PAPERGRAPH!

COMMENTS ABOUT ANNE FRANK

GOOD AFTERNOON !

IT`S KNOWN THAT AT THE END OF THIS MONTH WE SHOULD BE PRESENTING WHAT WE ARE READING IN CLASS (INTERMEDIATE LEVEL) THAT`S WHY WE MUST START NOW.

FOR THAR REASON YOUR COMMENTS ARE VERY IMPORTANT FOR ME AND FOR YOUR SCORE.

* YOU SHOULD WRITE YOUR NAME AND GRADE

THANKS A LOT

THE DIARY



In July 1945 Otto Frank receives tragic news. He hears that Anne and Margot have died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Then Miep Gies gives him Anne’s diaries, notebooks and loose papers. She and Bep had found the papers after the arrest in the secret annexe. Miep had been keeping them for Anne for a long time. Otto Frank thought it was a miracle that Anne’s diary had been saved. At first he didn’t want to read it. He felt too much grief. Later he began to read it, slowly, each day a little more.

He was surprised at his daughter. It was a completely different Anne from the Anne he had known. There were all kinds of things in her diary which she had never told him. Otto Frank also read that Anne had planned to write a book after the war about her experiences in the secret annexe. He also discovered that she had already rewritten large parts of her diary on loose sheets of coloured paper for that book.

‘The Secret Annexe’
Otto Frank let some of his friends and relatives read Anne’s diary. They thought it was very special, and so Otto decided to have a real book made of it. This was published two years later, first in the Netherlands but later in many other countries too, with the title ‘The Secret Annexe’. People all over the world wanted to read ‘The Secret Annexe’.

Names
In the book, the van Pels family, Fritz Pfeffer and the helpers were given different names, which Anne had made up. She decided to call the van Pels family the van Daan family. She called Fritz Pfeffer Albert Dussel. Miep Gies became Miep van Santen, Bep Voskuijl became Elli Vossen, Johannes Kleiman was Simon Koophuis, Victor Kugler was Harry Kraler, and so on. Otto Frank used these names as far as possible. In later editions of ‘The Secret Annexe’ (from 1991 onwards) the helpers are referred to by their real names.

THE END



This photo shows Anne’s cousin Buddy Elias standing by a gravestone bearing the names "Anne Frank" and "Margot Frank." The gravestone stands on the site of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, but it does not mark the exact location of Anne and Margot Frank’s graves. They do not have their own graves.

Anne Frank only lived for another seven months after her arrest in 1944. First she was taken with the other people from the secret annexe to Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands, and from there to Auschwitz concentration camp in occupied Poland. In the winter of 1944, together with Margot, she was sent to Bergen-Belsen, a concentration camp in northern Germany.

Typhus
Anne and Margot Frank died of typhus in Bergen-Belsen in March 1945. Typhus is a deadly infectious disease. The Nazis were keeping thousands of Jews imprisoned in Bergen-Belsen. But they gave them next to nothing to eat, and the sanitation was very bad. Thousands of prisoners died of hunger and disease.

Huge pits
On 15 April 1945 British soldiers liberated the camp. They discovered thousands of dead prisoners. The few survivors were terribly ill. There was no time to give all the dead a decent burial. Their bodies were thrown into huge pits, Anne and Margot Frank’s among them

THE SECRET ANNEXE



Anne Frank remained in hiding in the secret annexe for over two years. She was not alone there, but together with her parents, her sister and four other Jewish people: Hermann and Auguste van Pels, their son Peter and Fritz Pfeffer. Anne often felt upset. The only thing that could really help Anne then was her diary. She wrote down everything in it: her anger, her sorrow, her love for Peter, her ideals.

The people had to hide because their lives were in danger. The Netherlands was occupied by the German army. They wanted to arrest all Jews and send them to concentration camps. Only Jews who went into hiding could escape. But they had to have a good hiding place, and people who would help. The people in hiding in the secret annexe had helpers like these. They provided food, clothes, books and many other things which the people in hiding needed.

ANNE FRANK'S FAMILY


This photo shows Margot Frank, Otto Frank, Anne Frank and Edith Frank-Holländer on the Merwedeplein square in Amsterdam. It is the only photo which shows the whole family together. It was taken in 1941. Anne is then 12 years old.
The Frank family are actually from Germany. Anne and her sister Margot were born in Frankfurt am Main, a big city in the south of Germany. Their father grew up there. His family had lived there for a long time. Their mother comes from Aachen, a German town near the Dutch border. When Edith Holländer marries Otto Frank in 1925 she moves to Frankfurt.

To the Netherlands
Margot is born in 1926, and Anne follows three years later. Anne and Margot live in Frankfurt until the summer of 1933. Then her parents decide to move to the Netherlands. It is becoming too dangerous in Germany. Otto Frank starts up a business in Amsterdam. The Frank family feel safe. But on 10 May 1940 the German army attacks the Netherlands

ANNE FRANK



This is Anne Frank in May 1942. In a few weeks it would be her thirteenth birthday. She was given a diary as a birthday present. She began to write in it straight away. On the first page she wrote: ‘I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.’

Her diary mainly deals with her time in the ‘secret annexe’. That is the name people have given to the place where Anne had to go into hiding. She had to hide there together with her parents, her sister and four other Jewish people. Their lives were in danger. It was wartime, and the Netherlands was occupied by the German army. Jewish people were being arrested and sent to concentration camps.

Only her father...
After two years, the people in hiding in the secret annexe were discovered and arrested. Anne Frank died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. She was fifteen years old. Of the eight people in hiding only Anne’s father survived the Holocaust. More than 100,000 Dutch Jews were killed in the concentration camps and extermination camps.

'The Secret Annexe’
After the war Anne’s father returned to Amsterdam. Anne’s diary had been saved. He thought that he shouldn’t keep it to himself, and had it published as a book called ‘The Secret Annexe’. Millions of people all around the world have read the book. Every year thousands of people come to Amsterdam to visit the Anne Frank House. They want to see the place where Anne wrote her diary with their own eyes.