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Homework Assignments

Diary of Anne Frank

Thursday, September 22, 2011

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(Place the date atop your page!)

Dear Diary: After enjoying the preface, introduction and inscription of my new friend, Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, I learned that the missions of Anne and the German leaders contrasted because ______________________________________________________________. I also learned the way in which the German nation and Anne communicated contrasted because _____________________________________. Finally, I also learned that in regards to their mission and Anne’s diary, the Nazis failed their mission because ___________________________________________.

Yours in education, (your name)

Friday, September 23, 2011

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(Place the date atop your page!) Dear Diary: After enjoying the pages numbered one through eleven of my new friend, Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, I learned at least seven Anti-Jewish decrees which were ______________________________. I also learned… *Include information about three writing assignments Anne was given by her math master, Mr. Keptor, and what the end result was! Finally, I found it interesting that… * Include information why her Wednesdays would now be free to write!

Yours in education, (your name)

Having Our Say

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Home pleasure!

Enjoy the Preface and then the introduction to Part 1 of our new friend! (Read to the bottom of page 5!)

1. Define RECLUSIVE and use it in a sentence!
2. How did Bessie (Annie Elizabeth) introduce herself to Amy and what joke did she make?
3. Why did the Delany finally agree to have their stories put in a book?
4. What does Bessie like to say?
5. What is this book/memoir “woven” (or made) from? Who put in sequence (or in order)?
6. What nickname does Sarah go by?
7. What criticism did some feel the Delany sisters’ success bring from white America towards the larger black community?
8. WHY? (above)
9. Define CREED. What four things was the Delany creed centered on?
10. What was the family motto and whom did this apply to?

Friday, September 23, 2011

Home pleasure!

Enjoy Chapter One (Sadie)! (pgs. 7-11)

1. Probably because they never married, what does Sadie say she would do if Bessie died first? WHY?
2. What had their father taught the sisters to do with every dollar earned?
3. What jobs had the sisters held?
4. What does Sadie say is the hardest thing about living so long?
5. Although they lived in New York for seventy-five years, where will home always be?
6. How did their parents refer to one another? WHY?
7. What do we learn about the early part of their parents lives?
8. What was their older brother’s name?

Tuesday’s With Morrie

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Home pleasure! Enjoy through page 4!

• a) Where, specifically, did the last class of our author’s old professor take place?
• b) When, exactly, did it meet and how often?
• c) What was the subject? What were the topics?
• d) What happened during the sessions? Give at least five details.
• e) Who was the student?

Friday, September 23, 2011

Home pleasure! Enjoy the chapter entitled “The Syllabus”.

• a) Give specific details on what disease Morrie had.
• b) Why did he tell one group of students there may be a risk with taking his class?
• c) What simile does our author utilize to describe Morrie’s disease?
• d) When and why did he switch from a cane to a walker?
• e) What did he have to sometimes ask close colleagues when they would visit? Why?
• f) Why did Morrie have a “living funeral”? What was it?