Exploring Anne Frank’s Diary

Students will examine Anne Frank’s diary as both a historical and a deliberately-created literary text, and will understand how the Holocaust affected the lives of the Frank family.

Grade level: Adaptable for grades 7–12 Subject: Multidisciplinary Time required: Approximately 55–75 minutes per part of the lesson used (extensions available) Languages: English, Español

Lesson Plan and Teaching Materials

Teachers can request physical printed Timeline Cards from the Museum.

• Lesson Plan (PDF)

• Timeline Cards (PDF)

• Student Iceberg Exercise (PDF)

• Student Worksheet (PDF)

For Learning Management Systems

This online lesson plan for Anne Frank’s diary is compatible with learning management systems or web browsers for students to complete individually or as a class. You can use the PDF of the original lesson plan above as a guide. To use with your LMS, download the files below and follow your system’s instructions for importing files.

• Online lesson link (for web browsers)

• SCORM 1.2 (ZIP)

• SCORM 2004 (ZIP)

• xAPI (Tin Can) (ZIP)

This lesson is also available in Spanish.