Read the following excerpt from Anne Frank Remembered by Miep Gies. Then I walked into Mr. and Mrs. Frank's bedroom. On the floor, amidst the chaos of papers and books, my eye lit on the little red-orange checkered, cloth-bound diary that Anne had received from her father on her thirteenth birthday. I pointed it out to Elli. Obeying my gesture, she leaned down and picked it up for me, putting it into my hands. I remembered how happy Anne had been to receive this little book to write her private thoughts in. I knew how precious her diary was to Anne. My eyes scanned the rubble for more of Anne's writings, and I saw the old accounting books and many more writing papers that Elli and I had given to her when she had run out of pages in the checkered diary. Elli was still very scared, and looked to me for direction. I told Elli, "Help me pick up all Anne's writings.”

Choose the question that would be most effective at encouraging good discussion.

What would you have done if you found Anne’s dairy pages in the midst of the chaos?
What has happened to Anne, her family, and the rest of the people who were hiding?
Why does Miep tell Elli to pick up all of the pages from Anne Frank’s scattered diary?
How would you feel if you were Miep and Elli digging through all of the items on the floor?

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What would you have done if you had found Anne's diary pages in the midst of the chaos.

This has a lot of sub questions.

Why do you suppose the Nazis didn't take those pages?

What do you think those pages said?

What would have been thinking when the writing stopped?

It tells you what happened to the rest of the people who were in the attic. Only Mr. Frank survived. So I wouldn't pick that unless a teacher intended to go into a study of the Holocaust.

go shopping with my best friend,

watch movies with them,

go to the beach,

do makeup for each other and laugh if we look bad,

go skate boarding,

singing (or karaoke perhaps)

sleepovers,

photos,

going on road trips (disney, universal, buch gardens, euro trips, etc.)

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being there for each other when we need (hugs)

the play romeo and juliet was one of the most famous love tragedies ever written. this love story unfortunately had a fatal ending. many people argue over why the lovers had died, was it over free will or fate?  

the death of romeo and juliet was partially because of free will. the fact that romeo and juliet got married knowing that there was a bitter feud between their families, the montague and capulet’s. this feud brought on many problems, such as the murder of tybalt by romeo. juliet knew that this might be a problem for her and romeo. juliet had said: “what’s in a name”? which explains her ill fate of being a capulet and romeo being a montague. when romeo tells his servant “ ay, mine own…show more content…

i believe they had died over the love they had for each other, strong enough that their lives could end so suddenly if something horrible had come between them, and that was exactly how it happened. this tragedy occurred within five days of the two meeting, they experienced love at first sight, got married and quickly were dead. free will became a part of this when juliet decided to take friar laurence’s advise in inhaling a potion that will make people assume she is died but will awake in 42 hours prier to when she took it. when romeo had heard the news that juliet was dead, he assumed it was true, and responded with the line; “well juliet, i will lay with thee tonight”. to me this line indicated how he feels for juliet by dying in her will. the fact that free will didn’t take control of the story; it left fate to be the murder of the lovers. fate first kicked in when their eyes met at the capulet party. when romeo and juliet spoke, their words had powerful contentment; they had such a strong feeling for one another that they could lay in each other’s arms forever. their happiness didn’t last long; there were many reasons for this, for example; the marriage lord capulet arranged between paris and juliet. i believe that the plot of the play thus far leads the audience to believe that the deaths were a result of fate. the last act will determine once and for all if it is fate or free will. romeo again challenges fate.

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