The Diary of Anne Frank comprehension questions:

1. What is the date of the first diary entry? 2. How old is Anne Frank? 3. Describe Annes family and pets. 4. What reason does she give for moving to Holland? 5. What rules did Jews in Germany have to follow? Give five examples. 6. Anne is given extra homework from her teacher. What does it tell you about her? 7. Who is Hello Silberberg? Why does he visit Anne? 8. Do you think that school is important for Anne? How do we know this? 9. Why is Annes father at home a lot now? 10. What is Annes father planning? How has he been preparing? 11. Why do Anne and her family suddenly pack up and go into hiding? Why do they wear so many clothes? Who helps them? 12. Where is the hiding place? What do they call it? Describe it. (p. 7 & 8) 13. Why do you think Margot and her mother dont help? 14. Who is the van Daan family? Why are they joining Annes family in the annexe? 15. What is the bookcase for? (p.10) 16. Who brings Anne books to read? 17. How do they wash themselves? (p.11) 18. Why do they have to be very quiet? 19. Anne is often frightened. What is the reason for this? 20. How does Annes family and the Van Daans feed themselves? 21. What is happening to their Jewish friends while they are in hiding? (p.12) 22. Write a 10 point summary of what happens in

pages 12 -20 a. Vocabulary: Here are some words about buildings. Find the words in your dictionary: annexe _______________________ warehouse _______________________ Write three sentences using these words: 1. _____________________________________________________________________________ 2. _____________________________________________________________________________ 3. _____________________________________________________________________________ b. Here are six words used in war time. Find the words in your dictionary: concentration camp ______________________ bombing ___________________________ ration book invasion fighting _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ attic _______________________

soldiers ___________________________

c. Rewrite these sentences in your book in the correct order: 1. Anne is frightened because someone knocks loudly at the bookcase door. 2. They start eating one meal less a day to save food. 3. Mr Van Dann hears that the English have reached Tunis, Algiers, Casablanca and Oran. 4. Anne hears on the radio that the Germans are killing Jewish people with gas. 5. Mr Dussell arrives to live in the secret annex. 6. Annes and Peter kiss.

d. Look at the pictures of Anne mother on page 26 and Peter on page 28. Describe what they look like and what their personality is like. Annes mother ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ Peter ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________

The Diary of Anne Frank

Writing Annes diary is one of the most famous personal diaries in the world. Why do you think her diary has become so famous? What can we learn from it? Do you think everyone should read it? Why? Why not? (Write one paragraph 4,3 lines) Like Anne, describe your room in a diary entry. Write about what you have in your room, and who your share you home with and what happens there. (Write 2 or 3 paragraphs 3,4 lines each. In each paragraph write about one main idea.) Write a diary entry about a recent weekend. (Write 3 or 4 paragraphs 3,4 lines each. In each paragraph write about one main idea.) Describe Anne as a person. Do you think she is an unusual girl? Why or why not? (Write one paragraph 3,4 lines) Choose four people in the book who interest you most (not Anne). Write about them using the information in Annes diary and the pictures in the book. (Write one paragraph for each person 3,4 lines) Do you think that this is only a sad book? Or do you think it has happy parts too? Does Annes diary help us to think of humans as positive> Why or Why not? (Write one paragraph 3,4 lines)