First Flight - Class X
Reprint 2025-26
Anne Frank was a young Jewish girl who lived during World War II. Her diary, which she received for her thirteenth birthday, chronicles the events of her life from 12 June 1942 until 1 August 1944.
In this interactive lesson, we'll explore Anne Frank's unique record of daily life under Nazi occupation through excerpts from her diary. We'll learn about her thoughts, feelings, and experiences while in hiding with her family during World War II.
Before we read excerpts from Anne Frank's diary, let's think about diaries and personal records. A diary is a personal record where we write our thoughts, feelings, and experiences.
Keeping a diary helps us express ourselves, reflect on our experiences, and preserve memories. Some diaries, like Anne Frank's, become important historical documents.
In the text, we learn about different types of personal records: journals, diaries, logs, and memoirs. Each serves a different purpose but all help record experiences and thoughts.
Do you keep a diary? What kinds of things would you write in it? Have you ever read someone else's published diary or memoir?
In the text, we find several compound words like headmistress, homework, and notebook. Compound words are made up of two or more words.
Compound words can be nouns (e.g., homework), adjectives (e.g., long-awaited), or verbs (e.g., sleep-walk).
1. Heartbreaking:
2. Homesick:
3. Daydream:
A phrasal verb is a verb followed by a preposition or an adverb. Its meaning is often different from the meanings of its parts.
For example: "Ramble on" means "to talk or write without focus"
1. Get along with:
2. Plunge in:
3. Kept back:
4. Hand in:
5. Stay in: