As part of the Eighth Grade curriculum,
students will read the Diary of Anne Frank .
Using the below link, students will conduct
a Internet WebQuest research project to
explore the life of Anne Frank.
Why do we read Anne Frank's diary?
Born on June 12, 1929, Anne Frank was a German-Jewish
teenager who was forced to go into hiding during the Holocaust.
She and her family, along with four others, spent 25 months
during World War II in an annex of rooms above her fatherÌs
office in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. After being betrayed to
the Nazis, Anne, her family, and the others living with them were
arrested and deported to Nazi concentration camps. In March of
1945, nine months after she was arrested, Anne Frank died of
typhus at Bergen-Belsen. She was fifteen years old. Her diary,
saved during the war by one of the familyÌs helpers, Miep Gies,
was first published in 1947. Today, her diary has been translated
into 67 languages and is one of the most widely read books
in the world.
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For addtional Anne Frank links go to Mrs. Pech's Homepage:
Anne Frank /Research Links.
Copyright [2006], [Maria Pech]. All rights reserved.