Introduction
We will be reading The Diary of Anne Frank and you first encounter will be through a WebQuest.
Task
Directions : Click on the linked words to go to the website to answer the question. The answer is somewhere on the linked page. You will need to read to find the answer. Write your answers on your worksheet. You can print out a copy of the worksheet by clicking here.
1. Where was Anne Frank born? _________________________
2. In _______, Otto Frank moved because of increasing tensions and threats to Jews by the Nazis. The family soon followed.
3. In what city did Anne and her family hide from the Nazis? ______________________,Holland.
4. How old was Anne when she starting keeping a diary? When did she get her diary?
5. How many years were Anne and her family hiding in “The Secret Annex”? _____
6.The Frank family moved into "The Secret Annex" on _________________ and on
___________________ they are betrayed and taken to Westerbork, the Dutch transit camp.
7. Besides Anne, her sister, Margot, and her parents, Otto and Edith Frank, who were the other four people hiding in the Annex?
8. Because Anne didn’t have any friends and could not go outside while they were in hiding, she wrote her diary in the form of letters. What was the name she addresses her letters to? __________________
9. Who is Miep Gies?
She is known as the woman who ________________________________.
When did she die and how old was she? _______________________
10. What did they use to cover the entrance to the attic so that anyone in the office would not know that there were stairs to the attic?
11. What did Miep Gies do to help her boss, Otto Frank and his family?
12. Who was the only member of the Franks family to survive the concentration camps?
13. Anne’s diary was first published on ________________ and was called Het Achterhuis.
14. The diary has been translated into over ______ languages and has sold more than __________ copies worldwide.
Once you have completed answer the questions, visit The Annex and take a 3D tour of the building.
Process
As a student, you will be going on a Webquest and fill in the information.
Evaluation
When all the blanks are filled in, you will have completed the first step into the Holocoust, Anne Frank, and life during 1933-1945.