✦RAINBOWLevel 7 · High School TrackUS Grades 9–12Lexile 1020LAR (ATOS) 6.5 · First published 1947 · Definitive Edition 1995
📖 Read the book first: you need a copy of The Diary of a Young Girl to use this workbook. Recommended edition: Bantam paperback, the Definitive Edition (Susan Massotty trans.), ISBN 9780553577129. Another edition works if you can follow the chapters. All recommended editions →
Subject Personalities
The real-world subjects this novel study leans into — the depth behind every Knowledge Bank and reading passage.
PRIMARY LENS
🏛️ The Netherlands Under Occupation
The occupation of May 1940, the anti-Jewish decrees, people in hiding and the helpers who fed them, Westerbork, the air war, rationing, Radio Oranje and D-Day — the dated history around the Annex, told plainly.
SUPPORTING
✍️ The Diary as Writing
Kitty, voice, reflection, audience and revision — how a girl in hiding rewrote her own diary into a book.
SUPPORTING
🌳 The Science Around the Annex
The Westertoren bells, sound through a wooden house, sunlight and vitamin D, a horse chestnut and the tides of D-Day — the real science in the diary’s few windows.
