2. Independent Reading
Retrieve your library book
READ READ READ READ
READ READ READ
3. Schedule
Monday Drama / Stage Directions
Tuesday Setting and Mood
Wednesday Plot / Conflict
Thursday Characterization
Friday Narrative Review Mini-Quiz
• ALL WEEK: Meetings during reading
• FRIDAY: CELEBRATIONS
4. OBJECTIVE
SWBATidentify stage
directions and analyze
author’s purpose in
using them
5. Stage Directions
Instructions that describe how a character moves and
speaks.
– When reading a play’s script, stage directions are
often written in italics.
– The audience does not hear these instructions.
– Instead actors memorize them when they are
practicing and then use them as suggestions for
how to become a certain character.
6. Dialogue
The words spoken by characters when there are two
or more characters speaking together.
7. Monologue
A long speech by one character to
another character.
– More than one character is on stage, but
only one is speaking (for an extended
period of time)
8. Soliloquy
Acharacter is alone on stage speaking to
him/herself or to the audience.
– No other characters are on stage at this time
9. Dramatic Irony
The audience knows something that the
characters do not know yet.
10. The Holocaust
In 1933, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party
came to power in Germany
Hitler hated the Jews and began to
persecute them
– Jews were not permitted to attend school,
own businesses, or even live among their
Christian neighbors
14. Holocaust
Hitler escalated from persecution to full-
scale murder of the Jews of Europe
He organized for Jews to be sent to
concentration camps where they were
either starved, worked to death, or
gassed to death
15. The gates to Auschwitz, the most famous Concentration Camp
“Work Will Set You Free”
17. Anne Frank
Born: June 12, 1929
Died: March, 1945 in Bergen-Belsen
Concentration Camp (15-years-old)
Lived in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1942: Went into hiding with her family in
order to escape Nazi Persecution and death
19. Anne Frank
Hid with her family and another family for
nearly 3 years
Hidden by MiepGies, a family friend and a
member of the Dutch Resistance (a group
of Dutch nationals who fought against the
Nazi invaders)
20. Anne Frank
Kept a diary while she was in hiding
Her father, the sole survivor in her family,
had the diary published after the war
21. Anne Frank
Open your textbooks to pg 510
Let’s begin!
As we read, pay close attention to the sage
directions
22. BCR
Explainwhy you think the playwrights of
“The Diary of Anne Frank” use stage
directions. How do they help the actors?
How do they help you as a reader?
Make sure to use evidence from the text
to support your answer.
