Ready Steady Read Together
The Diary of a Young Girl: Non-Fiction Lesson 2
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What?
Who?
Why?
Where?
How?
When?
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What do you know and think?
Visions of concentration camps and lonely cells raced through my head.
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From: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank © 1947. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) What emotions did Anne have during the events of 8 July?
B) What preparations Anne and her family make to go into hiding and avoid being detected?
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Wednesday, 8 July 1942
Dearest Kitty,
It seems like years since Sunday morning. So much has happened it’s as if the whole world had suddenly turned upside down. But as you can see, Kitty, I’m still alive, and that’s the main thing. I’ll begin by telling you what happened Sunday afternoon.
At three o’clock, the doorbell rang. A little while later Margot appeared in the kitchen doorway looking very agitated. ‘Father has received a call-up notice from the SS,’ she whispered.
I was stunned. A call-up: everyone knows what that means. Visions of concentration camps and lonely cells raced through my head. How could we let Father go to such a fate? ‘Of course he’s not going,’ declared Margot. ‘Mother’s gone to Mr van Daan to ask whether we can move to our hiding place tomorrow. The van Daans are going with us. There will be seven of us altogether.’ Silence. We couldn’t speak. All this reduced us to silence.
When she and I were sitting in our bedroom, Margot told me that the call-up was not for Father, but for her. At this second shock, I began to cry. Margot is sixteen – apparently they want to send girls her age away on their own. But thank goodness she won’t be going; Mother had said so herself, which must be what Father had meant when he talked to me about our going into hiding. Hiding . . . where would we hide? In the city? In the country? In a house? In a shack? When, where, how…? These were questions I wasn’t allowed to ask, but they still kept running through my mind.
From: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank © 1947. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Margot and I started packing our most important belongings into a satchel. The first thing I stuck in was this diary. Preoccupied by the thought of going into hiding, I stuck the craziest things in the satchel, but I’m not sorry. Memories mean more to me than dresses.
Mother called me at five-thirty the next morning. The four of us were wrapped in so many layers of clothes it looked as if we were going off to spend the night in a refrigerator, and all that just so we could take more clothes with us. No Jew in our situation would dare leave the house with a suitcase full of clothes. I was wearing two vests, three pairs of pants, a dress, and over that a skirt, a jacket, a raincoat, two pairs of stockings, heavy shoes, a cap, a scarf and lots more. I was suffocating even before we left the house.
I still didn’t know where our hiding place was.
The stripped beds, the breakfast things on the table – all of these created the impression that we’d left in a hurry. But we weren’t interested in impressions. We just wanted to get out of there, to get away and reach our destination in safety. Nothing else mattered.
More tomorrow.
Yours, Anne
From: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank © 1947. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Vocabulary
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a call-up notice from the SS
agitated
fate
satchel
preoccupied
suffocating
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From: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank © 1947. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
I will model the first.
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agitated
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Find Read Talk
At three o’clock, the doorbell rang. A little while later Margot appeared in the kitchen doorway looking very agitated. ‘Father has received a call-up notice from the SS,’ she whispered.
Reveal Vocabulary
From: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank © 1947. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
agitated
Your turn
a call-up notice from the SS
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
fate
satchel
preoccupied
suffocating
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Vocabulary Check
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Reveal Vocabulary
Teacher Note: Re-read if time allows.
Wednesday, 8 July 1942
Dearest Kitty,
It seems like years since Sunday morning. So much has happened it’s as if the whole world had suddenly turned upside down. But as you can see, Kitty, I’m still alive, and that’s the main thing. I’ll begin by telling you what happened Sunday afternoon.
At three o’clock, the doorbell rang. A little while later Margot appeared in the kitchen doorway looking very agitated. ‘Father has received a call-up notice from the SS,’ she whispered.
I was stunned. A call-up: everyone knows what that means. Visions of concentration camps and lonely cells raced through my head. How could we let Father go to such a fate? ‘Of course he’s not going,’ declared Margot. ‘Mother’s gone to Mr van Daan to ask whether we can move to our hiding place tomorrow. The van Daans are going with us. There will be seven of us altogether.’ Silence. We couldn’t speak. All this reduced us to silence.
When she and I were sitting in our bedroom, Margot told me that the call-up was not for Father, but for her. At this second shock, I began to cry. Margot is sixteen – apparently they want to send girls her age away on their own. But thank goodness she won’t be going; Mother had said so herself, which must be what Father had meant when he talked to me about our going into hiding. Hiding . . . where would we hide? In the city? In the country? In a house? In a shack? When, where, how…? These were questions I wasn’t allowed to ask, but they still kept running through my mind.
From: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank © 1947. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Teacher Note: Re-read if time allows.
Margot and I started packing our most important belongings into a satchel. The first thing I stuck in was this diary. Preoccupied by the thought of going into hiding, I stuck the craziest things in the satchel, but I’m not sorry. Memories mean more to me than dresses.
Mother called me at five-thirty the next morning. The four of us were wrapped in so many layers of clothes it looked as if we were going off to spend the night in a refrigerator, and all that just so we could take more clothes with us. No Jew in our situation would dare leave the house with a suitcase full of clothes. I was wearing two vests, three pairs of pants, a dress, and over that a skirt, a jacket, a raincoat, two pairs of stockings, heavy shoes, a cap, a scarf and lots more. I was suffocating even before we left the house.
I still didn’t know where our hiding place was.
The stripped beds, the breakfast things on the table – all of these created the impression that we’d left in a hurry. But we weren’t interested in impressions. We just wanted to get out of there, to get away and reach our destination in safety. Nothing else mattered.
More tomorrow.
Yours, Anne
From: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank © 1947. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
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Let me use my reader's voice...
Margot and I started packing our most important belongings into a satchel. The first thing I stuck in was this diary. Preoccupied by the thought of going into hiding, I stuck the craziest things in the satchel, but I’m not sorry. Memories mean more to me than dresses.
What did you notice?
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From: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank © 1947. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Margot and I started packing our most important belongings into a satchel.
The first thing I stuck in was this diary.
Preoccupied by the thought of going into hiding, I stuck the craziest things in the satchel,
but I’m not sorry.
Memories mean more to me than dresses.
Explore
From: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank © 1947. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Margot and I started packing our most important belongings into a satchel. The first thing I stuck in was this diary. Preoccupied by the thought of going into hiding, I stuck the craziest things in the satchel, but I’m not sorry. Memories mean more to me than dresses.
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From: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank © 1947. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
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Strategy: Read Between the Lines
A) What emotions did Anne have during the events of 8 July?
Be a detective and look for clues!
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Dearest Kitty,
It seems like years since Sunday morning. So much has happened it’s as if the whole world had suddenly turned upside down. But as you can see, Kitty, I’m still alive, and that’s the main thing.
A) What emotions did Anne have during the events of 8 July?
Anne states ‘seems like years since Sunday morning’ but it has only been a few days. This shows that she feels confused and unsettled. The words ‘so much has happened’ and ‘as if the whole world had suddenly turned upside down’ suggest she might be feeling overwhelmed and disoriented by all the recent events.
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Teach
From: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank © 1947. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Stop
What else could you use to answer today's question(s)?
Teach
Your Turn
A) What emotions did Anne have during the events of 8 July?
B) What preparations Anne and her family make to go into hiding and avoid being detected?
Find the answers
Text mark
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Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence I’m still alive, and that’s the main thing
relief and gratitude
Text Mark Evidence I was stunned
shock and disbelief
A) What emotions did Anne have during the events of 8 July?
Text Mark Evidence visions of concentration camps and lonely cells raced through my head
fear and dread
Go to the next slide for more....
Text Mark Evidence - silence…we couldn’t speak - all this reduced us to silence
overwhelmed and helpless
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence at this second shock, I began to cry
upset and distressed
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence where would we hide…these were questions I wasn’t allowed to ask, but they kept running through my mind
anxious and uncertain
A) What emotions did Anne have during the events of 8 July?
Text Mark Evidence memories mean more to me than dresses
sentimental
Text Mark Evidence I was suffocating even before we left the house
trapped and uncomfortable
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence we just wanted to get out of there, to reach our destination in safety…nothing else mattered
urgency and determination
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - whether we can move to our hiding place tomorrow - what Father had meant when he talked to me about going into hiding
pre-planned a hiding place
Text Mark Evidence - Margot and I started packing our most important belongings in to a satchel - the four of us were wrapped in so many layers of clothes…no Jew in our situation would dare leave the house with a suitcase full of clothes
secretly and discreetly packed their belongings
B) What preparations did Anne and her family make to escape and what does this tell us about their situation?
Text Mark Evidence - where would we hide…these were questions I wasn’t allowed to ask - I still didn’t know where our hiding place was
kept the hiding place a secret from the children
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence - Mother called me at five-thirty the next morning - we’d left in a hurry
left early and swiftly
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘satchel’?
Find Me
Find the word which indicatesMargot received upsetting news:
At three o’clock, the doorbell rang. A little while later Margot appeared in the kitchen doorway looking very agitated. ‘Father has received a call-up notice from the SS,’ she whispered.
Discuss then check
agitated
True or False?
Anne carried her belongings in a satchel instead of a suitcase it made their escape look like an ordinary outing.
False
True
Sequence Me
Put these events in the correct order:
A) Margot received a call-up notice.
B) The family left with breakfast still on the table.
C) Anne’s father arranged a hiding place.
D) Anne packed her diary and other important belongings.
Click if correct
Check
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
keep a book journal.
Reveal
Write about what you've read or sketch your favourite scenes.
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Ready Steady Read Together
The Diary of a Young Girl: Non-Fiction Lesson 2
What do you think you know?
What?
Who?
Why?
Where?
How?
When?
Book Talk: Let's explore this illustration.
Explore
What do you know and think?
Visions of concentration camps and lonely cells raced through my head.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank © 1947. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) What emotions did Anne have during the events of 8 July?
B) What preparations Anne and her family make to go into hiding and avoid being detected?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Explore
Wednesday, 8 July 1942
Dearest Kitty,
It seems like years since Sunday morning. So much has happened it’s as if the whole world had suddenly turned upside down. But as you can see, Kitty, I’m still alive, and that’s the main thing. I’ll begin by telling you what happened Sunday afternoon.
At three o’clock, the doorbell rang. A little while later Margot appeared in the kitchen doorway looking very agitated. ‘Father has received a call-up notice from the SS,’ she whispered.
I was stunned. A call-up: everyone knows what that means. Visions of concentration camps and lonely cells raced through my head. How could we let Father go to such a fate? ‘Of course he’s not going,’ declared Margot. ‘Mother’s gone to Mr van Daan to ask whether we can move to our hiding place tomorrow. The van Daans are going with us. There will be seven of us altogether.’ Silence. We couldn’t speak. All this reduced us to silence.
When she and I were sitting in our bedroom, Margot told me that the call-up was not for Father, but for her. At this second shock, I began to cry. Margot is sixteen – apparently they want to send girls her age away on their own. But thank goodness she won’t be going; Mother had said so herself, which must be what Father had meant when he talked to me about our going into hiding. Hiding . . . where would we hide? In the city? In the country? In a house? In a shack? When, where, how…? These were questions I wasn’t allowed to ask, but they still kept running through my mind.
From: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank © 1947. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Margot and I started packing our most important belongings into a satchel. The first thing I stuck in was this diary. Preoccupied by the thought of going into hiding, I stuck the craziest things in the satchel, but I’m not sorry. Memories mean more to me than dresses.
Mother called me at five-thirty the next morning. The four of us were wrapped in so many layers of clothes it looked as if we were going off to spend the night in a refrigerator, and all that just so we could take more clothes with us. No Jew in our situation would dare leave the house with a suitcase full of clothes. I was wearing two vests, three pairs of pants, a dress, and over that a skirt, a jacket, a raincoat, two pairs of stockings, heavy shoes, a cap, a scarf and lots more. I was suffocating even before we left the house.
I still didn’t know where our hiding place was.
The stripped beds, the breakfast things on the table – all of these created the impression that we’d left in a hurry. But we weren’t interested in impressions. We just wanted to get out of there, to get away and reach our destination in safety. Nothing else mattered.
More tomorrow.
Yours, Anne
From: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank © 1947. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
a call-up notice from the SS
agitated
fate
satchel
preoccupied
suffocating
Explore
From: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank © 1947. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
I will model the first.
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
agitated
Explore
Find Read Talk
At three o’clock, the doorbell rang. A little while later Margot appeared in the kitchen doorway looking very agitated. ‘Father has received a call-up notice from the SS,’ she whispered.
Reveal Vocabulary
From: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank © 1947. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
agitated
Your turn
a call-up notice from the SS
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
fate
satchel
preoccupied
suffocating
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Teacher Note: Re-read if time allows.
Wednesday, 8 July 1942
Dearest Kitty,
It seems like years since Sunday morning. So much has happened it’s as if the whole world had suddenly turned upside down. But as you can see, Kitty, I’m still alive, and that’s the main thing. I’ll begin by telling you what happened Sunday afternoon.
At three o’clock, the doorbell rang. A little while later Margot appeared in the kitchen doorway looking very agitated. ‘Father has received a call-up notice from the SS,’ she whispered.
I was stunned. A call-up: everyone knows what that means. Visions of concentration camps and lonely cells raced through my head. How could we let Father go to such a fate? ‘Of course he’s not going,’ declared Margot. ‘Mother’s gone to Mr van Daan to ask whether we can move to our hiding place tomorrow. The van Daans are going with us. There will be seven of us altogether.’ Silence. We couldn’t speak. All this reduced us to silence.
When she and I were sitting in our bedroom, Margot told me that the call-up was not for Father, but for her. At this second shock, I began to cry. Margot is sixteen – apparently they want to send girls her age away on their own. But thank goodness she won’t be going; Mother had said so herself, which must be what Father had meant when he talked to me about our going into hiding. Hiding . . . where would we hide? In the city? In the country? In a house? In a shack? When, where, how…? These were questions I wasn’t allowed to ask, but they still kept running through my mind.
From: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank © 1947. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Teacher Note: Re-read if time allows.
Margot and I started packing our most important belongings into a satchel. The first thing I stuck in was this diary. Preoccupied by the thought of going into hiding, I stuck the craziest things in the satchel, but I’m not sorry. Memories mean more to me than dresses.
Mother called me at five-thirty the next morning. The four of us were wrapped in so many layers of clothes it looked as if we were going off to spend the night in a refrigerator, and all that just so we could take more clothes with us. No Jew in our situation would dare leave the house with a suitcase full of clothes. I was wearing two vests, three pairs of pants, a dress, and over that a skirt, a jacket, a raincoat, two pairs of stockings, heavy shoes, a cap, a scarf and lots more. I was suffocating even before we left the house.
I still didn’t know where our hiding place was.
The stripped beds, the breakfast things on the table – all of these created the impression that we’d left in a hurry. But we weren’t interested in impressions. We just wanted to get out of there, to get away and reach our destination in safety. Nothing else mattered.
More tomorrow.
Yours, Anne
From: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank © 1947. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
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Let me use my reader's voice...
Margot and I started packing our most important belongings into a satchel. The first thing I stuck in was this diary. Preoccupied by the thought of going into hiding, I stuck the craziest things in the satchel, but I’m not sorry. Memories mean more to me than dresses.
What did you notice?
Explore
From: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank © 1947. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Margot and I started packing our most important belongings into a satchel.
The first thing I stuck in was this diary.
Preoccupied by the thought of going into hiding, I stuck the craziest things in the satchel,
but I’m not sorry.
Memories mean more to me than dresses.
Explore
From: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank © 1947. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Margot and I started packing our most important belongings into a satchel. The first thing I stuck in was this diary. Preoccupied by the thought of going into hiding, I stuck the craziest things in the satchel, but I’m not sorry. Memories mean more to me than dresses.
Explore
From: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank © 1947. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
Explore
Strategy: Read Between the Lines
A) What emotions did Anne have during the events of 8 July?
Be a detective and look for clues!
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Dearest Kitty, It seems like years since Sunday morning. So much has happened it’s as if the whole world had suddenly turned upside down. But as you can see, Kitty, I’m still alive, and that’s the main thing.
A) What emotions did Anne have during the events of 8 July?
Anne states ‘seems like years since Sunday morning’ but it has only been a few days. This shows that she feels confused and unsettled. The words ‘so much has happened’ and ‘as if the whole world had suddenly turned upside down’ suggest she might be feeling overwhelmed and disoriented by all the recent events.
Reveal Explainer
Teach
From: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank © 1947. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Stop
What else could you use to answer today's question(s)?
Teach
Your Turn
A) What emotions did Anne have during the events of 8 July?
B) What preparations Anne and her family make to go into hiding and avoid being detected?
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence I’m still alive, and that’s the main thing
relief and gratitude
Text Mark Evidence I was stunned
shock and disbelief
A) What emotions did Anne have during the events of 8 July?
Text Mark Evidence visions of concentration camps and lonely cells raced through my head
fear and dread
Go to the next slide for more....
Text Mark Evidence - silence…we couldn’t speak - all this reduced us to silence
overwhelmed and helpless
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence at this second shock, I began to cry
upset and distressed
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence where would we hide…these were questions I wasn’t allowed to ask, but they kept running through my mind
anxious and uncertain
A) What emotions did Anne have during the events of 8 July?
Text Mark Evidence memories mean more to me than dresses
sentimental
Text Mark Evidence I was suffocating even before we left the house
trapped and uncomfortable
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence we just wanted to get out of there, to reach our destination in safety…nothing else mattered
urgency and determination
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - whether we can move to our hiding place tomorrow - what Father had meant when he talked to me about going into hiding
pre-planned a hiding place
Text Mark Evidence - Margot and I started packing our most important belongings in to a satchel - the four of us were wrapped in so many layers of clothes…no Jew in our situation would dare leave the house with a suitcase full of clothes
secretly and discreetly packed their belongings
B) What preparations did Anne and her family make to escape and what does this tell us about their situation?
Text Mark Evidence - where would we hide…these were questions I wasn’t allowed to ask - I still didn’t know where our hiding place was
kept the hiding place a secret from the children
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence - Mother called me at five-thirty the next morning - we’d left in a hurry
left early and swiftly
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘satchel’?
Find Me
Find the word which indicatesMargot received upsetting news:
At three o’clock, the doorbell rang. A little while later Margot appeared in the kitchen doorway looking very agitated. ‘Father has received a call-up notice from the SS,’ she whispered.
Discuss then check
agitated
True or False?
Anne carried her belongings in a satchel instead of a suitcase it made their escape look like an ordinary outing.
False
True
Sequence Me
Put these events in the correct order:
A) Margot received a call-up notice.
B) The family left with breakfast still on the table.
C) Anne’s father arranged a hiding place.
D) Anne packed her diary and other important belongings.
Click if correct
Check
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
keep a book journal.
Reveal
Write about what you've read or sketch your favourite scenes.
Copyright Notice
This document has been supplied under a CLA Licence with specific terms of use. It is protected by copyright and, save as may be permitted by law, it may not be further copied, stored, re-copied electronically or otherwise shared, even for internal purposes, without the prior further permission of the Rightsholder. Extracts sourced from: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank © 1947 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.