Who Was Anne Frank By Ann Abramson
level/intermediate
Genre: Multicultural/Biography The text uses illustrations and descriptive words to give the reader an authentic vision of what is what it was like to live during the Holocaust.
Illustrations: Black and white sketched drawings of diagrams and maps are provided to explain the chronicle order of Hitler was taking over and causing people to relocate if possible.
Summary- Anne Frank is well known for her diaries that told her story during the Holocaust. Who was Anne Frank before the diaries? The book gives the reader an insight into what happened before the family went into hiding and after they were discovered. The book is easy to read and appropriate for children. The book provides a timeline of Anne Frank's life.
Reader Response Questions
What do you think the purpose of the book is?
What questions do have for the author?
How would you describe the main character?
Activity Connections- Students can create a timeline of Anne Frank's life based on their knowledge of the text.
Students can make a poster to include the main characters in the book. They can draw a picture or print one out, and students should include a crucial fact of the character.
Personal Response- The book is easy to read for young children to understand the life of Anne Frank. I feel that the cartoonish pictures diminish the true feelings of devastation and sadness of her life and others. The story of Anne Frank was not a pretty picture and did not have a fairytale ending original illustrations or realistic drawings would have been a better choice to depict an accurate visual.
References
Abramson, A., & Harrison, N. (2017). Who was Anne Frank?New York, NY: Scholastic Inc.
Galda, L., Cullinan, B. E., & Sipe, L. R. (2010). Literature and the child. Wadsworth/Cengage Learning.
1.) Students can choose a specific time in Anne Frank’s life from what they read in the book and write a personal letter to that aged Anne Frank asking her what they wish to know about her during that time in her life or they can all together as a class write her a letter asking her about different times in her life.
ReplyDeleteAnother activity could be similar but have the children write letters to people that were around and knew Anne Frank throughout her life asking of what they could tell them about her from an outsiders point of view.
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