Reading can be a memorable personal experience and can be a starting
point to deploy skills, foster creativity, connect various disciplines and
generate new learning. This creative teaching guide offers the
opportunity to experience reading in an immersive way so that students
can turn it into a transversal tool, learn, and think about what they learn,
link what they learn to other issues in their environment and translate it
into a new language by exploring creativity. This didactic guide is divided
into three parts: historical context, reflection and creativity. The first is a
brief biography of Anne Frank and a synopsis of the Diary. The second is
made up of short questionnaires on the various themes that recur in Anne
Frank's diary. These are questions designed to open discussion in class
that you can moderate as you see fit. Finally, the third part is a proposal
for students to create an Instagram account about a possible exhibition
based on the diary.
Cristian Olivé Cristian Olivé is a philologist and secondary language and
literature teacher. He is the author of the books Profes rebeldes: El reto
de educar a partir de la realidad de los jóvenes and Una educación
rebelde: El poder de transformar la sociedad. He writes articles on
educational innovation and conducts training on active learning
methodologies. He understands reading as a transversal tool to generate
experiences and enhance creativity.
About the author Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank, better known as Anne
Frank (Frankfurt, June 12, 1929 - Bergen-Belsen, March 12, 1945) was a
Jewish girl born in Germany, famous for her diary, written while she was
hiding in an attic with her family to escape persecution by the Nazis during
World War II. The Frank family were captured and taken to various
German concentration camps, where all but their father, Otto, died. Anne
was sent to Auschwitz on September 2, 1944, and later transferred to the
Bergen-Belsen camp. There she died of typhoid fever on March 12, 1945,
days before Holland was liberated.
After the invasion of the Netherlands, the Frank family, German Jewish
merchants who emigrated to Amsterdam in 1933, hid from the Gestapo in
a garret attached to the building where Anne's father had his offices.
There were eight people who remained there from June 1942 until August
1944, when they were arrested and sent to concentration camps. There,
in the hidden flat in the most precarious conditions, Anne, then a thirteen
year old girl, wrote her shocking Diary of the Nazi horror and barbarism: a
unique testimony in and about the feelings and experiences of Anne
herself and her companions. Anne died in the Bergen-Belsen camp in
March 1945. Her diary will never die.
During the two years she remained in hiding with her family, the young
woman confided her secrets, her feelings, her fears and her desires to
him.
her secrets, her feelings, her fears and her desires. She wrote
about her belonging to the group, about the incomprehension and
anguish of being locked up, about historical events
She wrote about her belonging to the group, about the incomprehension
and anguish of being locked up, about historical events that marked the
advances and setbacks of the war process and, of course, about the
of the war and, of course, about her fears of Nazi cruelty...
Below, you will find the most recurrent themes that appear throughout
the diary and some questions to make the
diary and some questions for the reading experience to join in the
reflection. You can share your ideas and analysis with your classmates.
Friendships
Before the confinement, Anne goes to school and tells in the diary about
her daily routine. She even talks about the treatment she receives from
the teachers. In the entry for June 21
June 21, 1942 she writes:
Professor Keesing, the old math teacher, was angry with me for a while
because I talked too much.
He warned me and warned me, until one day he punished me. He had me
to do an essay; topic: "The chatterbox".
What image do you think your teachers and classmates have of you?
Do you show yourselves as you really are?
How does Anne describe her relationship with her classmates?
Although Anne is outgoing, she doesn't seem to find many people with
whom she can make friends. She uses adjectives such as heavy and poor
girl to describe those in her class. What other shortcomings does she
highlight?
Do you think she is fair in talking about them this way, or is she actually
disappointed because she misses having someone to get along with more?
If you had a personal diary, how would you describe your classmates?