Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Creating a School Survival Guide
In this lesson plan, students will create a school survival guide that follows the model of Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar. This survival guide will serve as a "how to" instructional manual for other incoming freshman...
TES Global
Tes: Holes by Louis Sachar: Writing Tasks
[Free Registration/Login Required] This PowerPoint contains 16 various writing tasks connected to Louis Sachar's young adult novel, the book Holes. Students will write multi-paragraph essays, diary entries, personal letters, and more.
Read Works
Read Works: My Travel Journal in China: Day 5
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage gives a first person account of a person's visit to the Forbidden City in China. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary...
Read Works
Read Works: Kim's Hungry Pet
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of fictional diary entries about a girl named Kim who get a new pet goat. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Literary Nonfiction (English 7 Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn how to describe the structural and substantive differences between an autobiography or diary and a fictional adaptation of it.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Say Hi to Haibun Fun
In this lesson plan, students will consider Say Hi to Haibun Fun which looks at a Japanese style of writing called haibun. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Book Pairings: "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
Anne Frank's diary provides a first-person account of the struggles an adolescent girl faces as her family hides from the Nazis within the terrifying setting of an overcrowded annex. Selected (7) reading passages (grades 6-8) to pair...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Beginning With the End in Mind
In this lesson plan, students will learn what goals are and why it is important to plan ahead. The students will interact with a story from The 7 Habits of Happy Kids by Sean Covey and use a blog to communicate their goals and plans with...
Other
Writing the Journal: Journal Definition
Find out what a journal is and how writing in a journal is different than other types of writing.
TES Global
Blendspace: Introduction to Anne Frank
A twenty-nine part learning module on Anne Frank, her life, her family, and her diary. Lessons include links to photographs, videos, tours, information, and activities to use while learning about Anne Frank.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Text Structure
[Free Registration/Login Required] 6 text structures - diary, fiction, nonfiction, biography, fairy tale, fable, mystery, fantasy, historical fiction
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Anne Frank
[Free Registration/Login Required] A flipchart to support a history lesson on Anne Frank's secret Annex; the pupils imagine they are going to hide for two years like Anne and draw a plan of where they would hide and what they would take...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Anne Frank and Literacy
[Free Registration/Login Required] The main focus of this resource is on the nature of writing a Recount document, but it takes texts from Anne Frank's Diary as an example. This offers a valuable view of the document as a historical...
The Best Notes
The Best Notes: The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
This is an online study guide/notes for the novel The Best Notes: The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Biography: Anne Frank for Kids
Read about the biography of Anne Frank who was Jewish girl who wrote about hiding from the Nazis in World War II on this website.
Other
Illyria: A Look at Samuel Pepys
This site gives a very brief essay describing Samuel Pepys' life and his famous diary. His self-portrait is included.
Curated OER
Martha's Vineyard Museum: Laura Jernegan: Girl on a Whaleship: Open Journal
Illustratioin of a girl's journal, from the nineteenth century.