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Question: How are the games we play and the text connected?
Connect the text with our games. Make as many connections as you can, and explain them enough so that we can understand your idea. Remember how it felt to play. What you were thinking about? What were you pretending? And then connect this to the text.
Here are a list of games that we've played so far (please note that some have been played more than one time):
Name Yourself/Name Tag (yellow star, fur coat, clock face)
Gibberish
Kitty Wants A Corner
Black Magic
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Student #1 The games that we played are related to the text because for example when we played “Kitty Wants A Corner” the person in the middle was like the Jews who wanted a safe place to go, but the German's or the people on the outside wouldn’t let us in. Also in the text it talked about the boy Peter and how he had a cat. That might be why the theme was a kitten. Also Mrs. Shick was talking in gibberish which could have represented the different languages that the Jews and the German's spoke. I don’t know if this would be considered a game, but when we used the stars as our name tags that might have represented the Star of David that all Jews had to wear on there clothing. In the text it talked about how Anne and Peter ripped off there stars. Finally, when we played “Black Magic” there was a secret to the game. That secret could have been just like the secret the Franks were keeping about there secret annex.
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1. I think your connection between Kitty in the Corner and Anne Frank is completely correct. That makes perfect sense. I also believe that you are right about the star on the clothing. I also think you are correct on the Black Magic connection because a secret had to be kept during the game and in the story when the people who brought the food to Anne and her family, they too had to keep a secret. student #19
2. I agree with everything here as well. I have the same feelings about Peter and the kitten. I aslo feel the same way about the gibberish. It probably has something to do with the main languages they spoke. I didn't get to play "kitty wants a Corner", but from what i have heard about it you're explanation seems like the closest to what i would have guessed. All the jews wanted was a safe place to go (or to leave) and the Germans wouln't let that happen. (: (#4)
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Unfortunately i didn't get to play "Black Magic" or "Kitty wants a Corner", so it's much harder for me to relate to them. But, from what i have heard i think that the Star name tags resembeled the Star of David that the Jews had to wear on their clothing at all times. In the text, Anne talked about how her and Peter ripped off their stars, because they would no longer be out in public. They seemed very happy to do that. Then i think that the fur coat has to do with the fur coats and layers of clothing they wore to avoid carring suitcases. One of the ladies in the Secret Annex mentioned something about this as well. I think the Gibberish has to do with the Jews ways of talking so the Germans wouldn't understand. This could also mean many other things, like secret codes the Jews had or maybe how the Germans couldn't understand, nor speak Hebrew. To be completly honest, i have no idea what the clock face represents, but my very best guess would be the long, long periods of time the Frank family and the other familys spent in the secret Annex. I still don't know what the "Kitty wants a corner" game was, but maybe the name has something to do with Peter in the secret Annex and how he has a cat.
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1. I was there for the games so my experience was a little different than yours. However, I really like your idea for the clock face. That nametag was one I couldn't understand. I like the thought of how it stands for the long periods of time that Anne and her family were in hiding. Like you however, I had a different experience with the games. This is because I knew the secret for Black Magic. Hopefully you get in the loop soon. ~#18~
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The games we played are related to the text because during the “Kitty wants a Corner” game, some people weren’t lucky enough to go into hiding, and some people got caught by the person who is “it” (German troops). The Black Magic game is related because it must be very frustrating to stay quiet for the whole day, and not let anyone even hear a peep out of you, because if you do, it could cost you your life. The badges are related too, the star is for the Star of David, and the fur coat is for that lady with that really expensive fur coat. As for the gibberish talking Mrs. Schick did, I have no clue what that was about. Maybe it was to give an idea of how we know what she is talking about, even if we don’t understand her. That’s how I think these games are related.
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Student #6
The games relate to the text in many ways. In "Kitty Wants a Corner", the games relates to the text because the Franks move at a certain time before the Germans can catch them, like when the kitty wants to get to a spot before the person trying to get there gets there. The Kitties are the Germans and everyone else are the Jews. I really did not want to get caught, just like the Franks and I tried to do it quietly, just the Franks trying to hide quietly. I thought I had to get there before everyone else because I would feel bad if I didn't make it. In Black Magic, it made me very frustrated because I think I would have the right idea, but then it is just blown away just like the Germans thinking they found the Jews when they are in hiding, but it isn't them thats there so they get frustrated all over again. Black Magic also relates to Anne Frank because the person who knew the secret wouldn't tell anybody just like the Jews not telling anyone where they hid, which would make me really frustrated and confused. When playing Gibberish, I didn't get frustrated, but I got very confused because I wondered why Mrs. Schick was doing it. I understood it right away, but I just didn't get the point of it. I think it relates to the text because the Jews would have their own language, I think, and the Germans wouldn't know what it ment. It could also mean that the Jews would tell others where they hid in a way that the Germans couldn't understand. The nametags were fun because you got to pick your own name. This relates to Anne Frank because they had to where "Stars of David" on their chest so the Germans would recognize them. We wore stars on our chest so people could recognize us just like the Jews.
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Student #7
As I was playing “Kitty wants a Corner”, I felt that it would be safer to stay in my spot unless the person said to toss a treat. I wasn’t willing to risk switching spots otherwise. I only moved to another spot when forced to by the game rules. In the text, I think Anne Frank’s dad didn’t want to be caught and Anne Frank didn’t want to go into hiding. She seemed like she didn’t want to leave her house behind and she seemed a little sad when she was telling Peter about her cat that she had to leave behind. And then she talked about how she wanted to see her friends at school again. I think Anne didn’t want to move either but she was forced to otherwise the people that arrested Jews would find her family and catch them. For the nametags, I know that the star represented the Star of David. The fur coat was mentioned somewhere in the story when one of the ladies living in the Secret Annex was sewing it but I think it also means that they all had to wear layers when hiding out to avoid carrying suitcases. I really don’t know why the clock is there but I’m pretty sure it means that they had to hide for a long time. The Gibberish game probably was to show that the Jews had hand signals or a secret language to communicate. The Black Magic seems to be quite similar because we all got frustrated, not knowing what the code or secret to the game was.
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1.) I think the Gibberish game relates to the text by the language everyone used. Maybe the Germans didn’t always understand the Jews or the other way around. Also the games do relate to the texts the ways you put it. I also wouldn’t have guess the thing about the fur coats and how they had to layer. That’s a good observation.
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2. I argree with the being scared to switch places in the "Kitty Wants A Corner" game. I think this has to do with Ann Frank and the text because she was afraid about being found while living in the secret annex. (#1)
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Student #9 I think that the games related to the text by how the Jews and Germans acted. Such as in Kitty wants a corner, I think that showed that the Jews had no place to go to be safe and how the people in the circle were the people who said no to the Jews. In the game Black Magic, I figured that it showed us how the Jews didn’t know what was going on just like how us kids didn’t know what the secret was. For the Gibberish game I thought that it showed the Jews not understanding what the Germans thought and not knowing what was going to happen or even what they were saying to them. For the name tags I thought of the star of David and how they all had one and maybe it said a name that wasn’t their real name but the Germans named them that.
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1. I agree 100% with what you said about the kitty wants a corner game. That portrayed how the Jews felt pretty well I think and it was exactly how you said it. #25
2. I agree with what you said about kitty corner. The Star of David part, I agree. The Germans just called them Jews, but they had names. In the Black magic part however, I think that it actually represented the Germans who didn't know where the Jews were. I think that your Gibberish idea might be right. I'm not really sure. Great response. #31
Student #10There are many ways to connect the games to the text, but I am sure that I have the right idea as to how they are related. The name game is related to the text because the star represented the Star of David and the fur coat represented the lady’s coat that would be sharing a hiding spot with. With gibberish (now I’m sure this isn’t correct but it’s worth a try) when the person who was speaking gibberish I think they represented Hitler talking about how the Jews were bad. But the people weren’t listening to his gibberish because they knew that the Jews being bad were not true and Hitler was speaking gibberish. Kitty wants a corner is a hard one for me to compare because I have so many ideas as to how to relate this to Anne Frank. I think the person who was “it” represented Hitler and the people guarding the corners were the Jewish. When Hitler was asking the Jews to give up they’re lives they were not happy and many of them moved behind his back so that they wouldn’t get caught. The person who was the kitty knew what was happening behind his back but whenever they were close enough, they would try to catch the Jews. I’m not sure if that was even close, but that’s what I think. Black Magic has completely stumped me; I have no idea how that is related to Anne Frank. I can guess that it was where the Jews had no idea why they were being picked on and that’s the secret they want to know. But why would they keep it a secret from the Jews anyway?
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1. I like your idea about the gibbersh. Its not what i thought at first, but it would make alot of sense.
2. I think that you nailed all the points except that Hitler was not the only one searching for the Jews. Many many Germans were searching. Otherwise A+ work.-Student 12
Student #11
I think that the activities in class relate to the diary of Anne Frank in many ways. For one, the star represents the star of David that the Jews were forced to wear as a identifier. In the play, they say that they wore a fur coat over all of their layers.
The game “Kitty Wants a Corner” refers to the Jewish all trying to find hiding. Some did not go into hiding, like the person in the center who tries to find a place. The game “Black Magic” represents the Jewish not knowing when the war would end, or what there and there fellow Jew fates would be. The gibberish has to do with the language differences.
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Student #12 I think that the games are connected to real life in many ways. In the game “kitty wants a corner” people had to trade spots with other people and not get caught. This is exactly how it was for the Jews. They had to change hiding spots with many different people and they couldn’t get caught. Gibberish was also related in the sense that people might come up with their own language so that the Germans couldn’t understand them. I do not know how the game black magic is related.
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Student #13 First of all in the games we had to wear stars like the Jewish people. The gibberish game was like the soldiers spoke German but the Dutch understood what the main idea was of what the soldiers wanted. I can’t really relate the other games to the text. I will need some more explanation.
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#26 That star thing is exactly what I said.
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Student #17 I think there are many connections to the games from the text. In Kitty wants a corner one person, which in this case can represent many people, is singled out and it is hard for them to get back in just like the Jews were discriminated against. In Black Magic there was a secret that only a few people knew just like the secret of the Franks living in the secret attic. In gibberish it was like when the Franks first came to a new country and they couldn't understand the languge. Our star nametag is like the star of david that the Jews had to wear. The fur coat was like the coat that the other women living with the Franks wore. The clock was like the large clock outside the secret attic.
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1. I like how you conncected to the Black Magic game because it really makes sense. I think that's a really good response. I thought something different for the Kitty Wants a Corner game, but I still think yours makes a lot of sense. I understand that you're saying that they didn't understand the language and I totally agree even though I also think that it was a code language as well. (From Student #7)
2. #23 I agree with all of your connections. I like the one about gibberish, I never thought about it that way. I wrote something else down for Kitty Wants A Corner, but from a different perspective I can understand what you are saying. The Jews are singled out just like when the "Kitty" wants to take their corner. I absolutely agree about the secret code thing too. : ) : ) : )
Student #18 Again, I know that all of these games are related to Anne Frank. I pretty much understand all of the games we have played so far. The only one I have a question on is today’s name tag, the clock face. It didn’t seem to mention anything about clocks or time in scenes 1&2, but maybe it will later. Like I had said yesterday, I think that the fur coat was to represent all the layers that the Franks wore over to the hideout. I am also pretty sure that the stars stand for the stars that the Jews had to wear. Of all the questions that I have, I still don’t understand why we got to choose our own name. The game kitty wants a corner, reminds me of how the Jews had to run and hide form the Nazis. In Black Magic, I felt like Hitler, who had the entire (class) under control. Lastly, with the gibberish, it can go both ways. That the Nazis and Jews couldn’t necessarily, understand what each other was saying, but they could still get the overall message.
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Student #19 All three games are related to Anne Frank. The Gibberish game is related because the Jews had to become more secretive. The Jews had to go into hiding and not come out for up to two years or so. The game ‘Kitty Wants a Corner” relates to Anne Frank because during the game the person in the middle felt left out. This connects because Anne probably felt different and felt like she wasn’t alike the other people. This game might also relate because you never were sure who the next person in the middle would be. By doing this, this relates because nobody knew who was going to be found and if they were going to be found. During the game “Black Magic” we watched Mrs. Schick point to multiple objects and the person who was it had to choose if that was the object the class picked. I think this relates because the students had to keep a secret about how you know what object was chosen. The people who knew that Anne was in hiding had to keep a secret so that the Germans didn’t find and kill them. The star name tag goes along with this because it’s what the Jews had to wear on their clothes. I still have not figured out how the fur coat and the clock face go along with this though.
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1. I haven't been able to figure out what the name tag game meant either. I am still trying to figure that out.~#24~
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Student #23 After thinking about the similarities between the games we have played and "The Diary of Anne Frank" I have came up with some ideas. First, in Kitty Wants a Corner, I didn't want to take the risk of switching with others because I might lose my spot in the process. I only decided to move when they said "toss a treat" because then I was unable to get tagged (unless i moved to slow.) This related to "The Diary of Anne Frank" because when Anne, her family, and the others went into "hiding" in the attic if they ever moved or had left the attic space then they would, most likely, have been spotted and reported to the Germans. Also when we said Toss A Treat, it was just like when after 6 the Franks were able to QUIETLY move around and go to the bathroom and such. Also, in Black Magic where only a couple people knew the trick, you had to keep the secrecy, if not then you would get in trouble by Mrs. Schick and then she would know more about you because "you can learn alot about a persons character from their actions." Also the person thats trying to get it out of them would be happy because they would finally know what the secret was but Mrs. Schick would be angry because she had specifically told them not to tell. Just like in "The Diary of Anne Frank" and how the people that gave books, food and such to the Franks had to keep the secret of their hiding. If not the Franks and others would know that they are heartless, not trustful people. And the matter of fact would be that the Germans would be happy about the news but the Franks would be betrayed and very upset. And lastly, the Gibberish game. In this I was unable to understand what Mrs. Schick was trying to communicate to us. But in the end I could decipher what she was saying by the volume, body language, and tone of her voice. Just like in our story when the Jews are unable to understand what the Germans are saying just by there words, but with their body language they were able to understand better.
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1. I completely agree. I didn't want to take the risk of moving unless I really had the chance and I knew I wouldn't get tagged when they said toss a treat. When the Franks moved to the annex, they couldn't be spotted, or "tagged", and then they would have to move when it was six o' clock like when the person said toss a treat. In Black Magic, I didn't like how the person had to keep a secret so I couldn't know, just like the Germans not knowing they lived there or that people who weren't Jewish were helping the Jews, just like you said. In Gibberish, I could also understand what she was saying with body language and tone of voice like the Jews understanding what the Germans are saying by their body language. ~#6~
Student #24 Today when we wore the clock face name tags it just didn't make sense what the clock stood for was it because they were out of time or in a rush I really had no idea. I think that the second game the gibberish game had to relate to Ann Frank because they could not be discovered and had a code of their own to stop people from discovering them in hiding. I think that the black Magic game maybe had to do with the fact that they had to entertain themselves and they had games they played to keep themselves occupied.
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1. I agree, I don't know what the clock stood for either, maybe it showed that they had to wait til the workers got off? Or maybe your right too, maybe they were in a rush too. But like the instructions say, there can be many different answers. §tudent #5
Student #25 If you look hard enough, you can find many similarities between the text and the activities we completed in class. For example, in the kitty Wants a Corner game, kids could not take a risk by switching with others because they might lose their spot in the process. This was like the story because if Anne had left the secret attic space, then the Germans would catch them and take them to concentration camps. Also, in the Black Magic game, the people who knew the secret were not able to share it with others, just like the people who knew that the Franks were hiding in the secret attic were not able to tell in fear that word would get to the Germans in some way. As for the gibberish game, that shows how the Jew's were not able to understand what the Germans were saying, but the Germans got their point across using volume and different techniques like that.
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1. As i think about it, i completely agree with you how you think that switching corners is not smart because they would get caught. I also think that you are right when you say how you think that the Franks where the ones keeping the secret. I had the feeling it was the Germans, but you make more sense. I also agree with you how the Gibberish game connected. I am sure you are right, it will be interesting when we discuss this in class tomorrow because it looks like we all have such different ideas. : ) #10 : )
Student #26 In the game kitty wants a corner the students were taking a risk by trading spots but knowing that there spot could be taken kind of like the Jews who were moved to concentration camps. In the black magic game the people had a secret like the people protecting the Franks. Also in naming yourself and wearing the star and fur coat was a little like the Jews wearing the Star of David and all their clothes to go into hiding.
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1. #13 you have a very good summary, you explained everything.
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Student #31 I think that there were many similarities between the text and the games. In kitty corner, I think that when it came around, it signified the Jews trying to find a safe place to go. I’m sure that when everyone refused to let them in their corner, in signified that most people didn’t want the Jews. Our name tags might have connected to our text. Maybe the Jews had codenames that changed their name. Our name tags changed our name. Black magic could have represented how the Germans had no idea how the Jews could hide. The Germans were probably frustrated just like the class was. The Gibberish game is still pretty unclear to me how it relates to our text.
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1.I see what you mean about Kittty Wants a Corner. It was hard for the Jews to be accepted. I think I also understand about the Jews finding a safe place. I don't think many people would want to house Jews because of the penalties if they were found out. #17
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