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Diary Of Anne Frank Informative Essay

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Becca Davis
ENGL 3391
Dr. Montgomery
27 April 2015
Background Information The Diary of Anne Frank is a diary of a Jewish girl named Anne. Anne got this diary for her birthday shortly after they went into hiding. She refers to her diary as Kitty. Anne’s family then goes into hiding during World War Two to avoid the Nazis with another family. Anne hides in this secret annex in Amsterdam with seven others until after two years they are discovered and get sent to concentration camps. After the war, Anne’s dad, Otto Frank, goes searching for his family until he is told that they all died. He is then given Anne’s diary and is moved by her writing because he never saw this Anne before. Shorty after reading her diary, he then publishes it, and since then it has became a very well known novel. Because there are three different versions of this diary, students should know from the start of the lesson, that this is not a direct copy of Anne’s diary. This book has many advantages as to why it places at an educational value. When learning about different types of wars students just see the numbers of people killed or survived, they learn the background information of a soldier, general, or leader, and …show more content…

Some parents, educators, or even students may feel that this certain book or topic of WWII may be too much for eighth graders to handle. For example, some may feel that it is too severe in learning about the reality of what happened to many Jews in concentration camps and gas chambers. Another instance could be that students have an emotional response in which their parents do not agree with or want to deal with. I remember many students in my class being very emotional after we discussed more about Anne and what took place in Germany. Some parents may not think educators should teach a book that can cause so much emotion in a

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