Anne Frank Remembered Entry # 3

5 comments:

1. Mr. Frank ends up tricking a lot of people.
2. They were not able to use the bathroom during the day time.
3. Jews believe strongly in their religion.
4. Jews would hide for their own personal beliefs.
5. They had limited amount of sources that they could use.

4 questions:

1. Why does it seem like Miep is forced to take care of the Frank family?
2. Will Miep ever become a mother?
3. What's so special about Mouschi?
4. Why aren't Mr. Van Daan's jokes funny?

3 words:

1. Muted: incapable of speech; dumb.
2. Acquiesced: to assent tacitly; submit or comply silently or without protest; agree
3. Keepsakes: anything kept, or given to be kept, as a token of friendship or affection; remembrance.

2 Literary elements:

1. Similie: "the Jewish deportations as resettlement and claimed that those taken were being treated decently" pg. 119
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Sentence Summary:

1. The family still has to hide, and more and more people are joining them to hide.
   

Anne Frank Remembered Entry # 2

5 comments:

1. Miep has really strong feelings for Henk.
2. Jews would only receive information through the radio or through newspapers.
3. Miep got married.
4. The discrimination was getting to the family.
5. There was a lot of emotion going through the room that they were in.

4 questions:

1. How is it that so much is just thrown upon their lives?
2. How were Jews supposed to get to where they wanted too?
3. Why wasn't Hitler being challenged by anybody?
4. Did Mr. Frank already expect the family to have to go into hiding?

3 words:

1. Sadist: any enjoyment in being cruel.
2. Contemptuous: showing or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful.
3. Frivolity: the quality or state of being frivolous

2 literary elements:

1. Imagery: "The sugar coating melted from her face when I declined her invitation" pg. 44
2. Metaphor: "Her eyes narrowed and drank in my face with a fixed stare, as though to memorize my every feature.

Sentence Summary:

1. Miep becomes closer to the Frank family and sticks with them to help.
   

Anne Frank Remembered Entry # 1

5 comments:

1. She never met her actual parents.
2. Miep Gies helped Anne Frank and her family hide.
3. Miss Heel seemed very cranky
4. I found out that not only Jews were being discriminated against, but anybody who was not German.
5. They didn't have many of the privileges that we have today.

4 Questions:

1. Why did her parents give her up?
2. How did her parents feel about leaving her?
3. How long were they hiding?
4. How does Anne Frank feel?

3 words:

1. Cavernous: full of small cavities; porous
2. Luminous: radiating or reflecting light; shining; bright.
3. Trudged: to walk laboriously or wearily along or over

2 literary terms:

1. Metaphor: "I was suddenly on unsteady ground" pg. 28
2. Personification: "I always fly to work on my secondhand bicycle" pg. 33

Summary Sentence:

1. Miep Gies introduces how she lived and how she knew Anne, what was her story and how it happened.