There is no homework packet over the break, but students should finish their fantasy independent reading books by January 5th.

I am missing Anne Frank projects from several students. I will take 5 points off for every day they are late, including the days we are out for the winter break. Students may email me their papers, but if they do not receive a conformation email from me, I did not get the email. The rubric is listed on this blog in a previous post.

Have a wonderful winter break and enjoy the holidays!

Leslie Heister
LHeister@paulcharter.org

4th period only: Students should prepare to present their 2 paragraphs of expository text to the class on Wednesday.

Project Guidelines

Pretend that you are one of the characters in the annex. You will create a diary with 3-5 diary entries informing others what happened to you upon your arrest from the annex by the Nazi police. You will base your entries on research. For example, if you find out through research that Mr. Van Dann was sent to Bergen Belsen concentration camp, you would include that in your diary entry as if you were him.

You will also include an epilogue. An epilogue is a concluding piece of writing that informs readers of what happened to characters at the end of a story. As all of the characters except for Mr. Frank died, an epilogue is needed to tell the reader of your diary what happened to you. If you are Mr. Frank, then much of your epilogue will be based upon the story and other research.

It is imperative that while your diary entries will be research based, you also remember to write in a humanistic way. You are the character from the annex, so the entries must include your personal thoughts and feelings of the events at the concentration camp. You may also have to fill some of your entries with fiction as none of us knows everything that occurred at those camps. The main elements that are required for this project are:
Research and Imagination. This project will culminate our study of the Informational text and the Literary text.

You should include pictures or drawings that help to illustrate the setting or the events. You must have at least 3 diary entries. They must be dated (day, month, date and year). The entries must be at least a page long. You may type them or write them in blue or black ink. Your sources should be listed inside of the cover at the very back of your diary. You must include sources!

You should be very creative when making your journal or diary with a cover, the diary entries, an epilogue and picture.

Rubric
A cover
3-5 full page entries
An epilogue
Pictures
List of sources
Work ethic

30 points for accurate completion.

December 12th

Students should make sure to choose an independent reading book and have it approved ASAP!

Anne Frank projects are due Friday, December 19th.

Students should be prepared to work on their Anne Frank projects in class tomorrow. Choose a character and do a little research before class.

Due Friday: Plot outline for the entire play (The Diary of Anne Frank), describing all 6 elements (exposition, inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution)

Wednesday: Final quiz on The Diary of Anne Frank (Act 2, Scenes 3-5)

Independent Reading Project:

• At the students' request I have changed our independent reading genre to: Fantasy
• Students should choose their book by next Monday, December 8th
• The books need to be a minimum of 15o pages and on an appropriate reading level
• I will need to approve all books

Quiz (The Diary of Anne Frank):

• We will have a quiz on Act 1, Scenes 4-5, and Act 2, Scenes 1-2 on Wednesday
• The quiz for 4th period will cover the entire second act