i Diaries and journals y diary is a form of writing in which someone regularly Ne ‘things that happen in their life. Usually diaries, are organised by date. Diaries are written for personal use and often include thoughts, observations and opinions. The audience for a diary is usually the writer of +the diary. A journal is almost the same as a diary, but the audience for a journal is often more than just the writer, oo est dary cur wien was by Raber Stel an fnecan minster tel fe died in 2007, [et btn 37 mon word abot ile fom Roman dares Ancient Chinese cares ia he organises ‘and government departments. ib Shey te meee ar 2 pastime beca popula inthe teenth centuy- This oul have been becas ever written dares before—doctors, teavellers, lawyers, priests, teachers, farmers a rs fal indore suddenly waiting al ut their daly ives Tey, cary and journal wr popula then ever, thanks to bloging Blog hor for ‘we Iogs) are online dasa or journals in sehich people share theives, thoughts and spiions, Blogging sofware sso lets readers [comment ch blog entries, which makes a blog Buch more ofa two-wey cl core 2 rursonergish 7Famous diaries Probably the most famous English diary from ne seventeenth century was writin by Samuel Pepys (pronounced Peeps), Pepe was & member Of parliament end a government offical, ana from 1660 to 1669 he kept a detailed diary of his ie an busines. This dary isa rch source of information about life in England st that time, He wrote about food, clothing Qs 7 ‘much, much more, a DirySarmelPepe uch, mum Fre of london (1666) fenPopssdyevetis ang ihe Back Desth or has trois ‘One ofthe most Gt) amuaresortne OD weserconuys kane Frank's dry The diary of Anne Frank Anne Frank was a German-jewish gt who: during the Second World War (1938-45) atthe She and her family were ving dAtnsterdam in the Netherlands when the German army invaded in 1940. To avoid being caught by the Nazis, anne and her family hi fr two years in secret rooms in an old office building, along with thie frends, the van Pel family Th hideaway was called'the Annexe “They were eventually discovered and Anne was sent to Belsen concentration camp, where she ied Her father was the only one of their group to survive. He helped to publish a diary that Anne had kept from 1942 to 1944, covering the time ofthe er dary becarne extremely poplar and has been published in sixty-seven cifere you tead the extrac, ts importa following informatica Anne addressed many diary entles to 'Kt 2 fictional character from books by Cissy v7 Manvel + MrKleiman was an employee of Anne's father. ‘one ofthe few people wha knew where the family was hiding, Anne ued a peudonym—'van Daan'—for the van Pel family "Madame is Ms van Daan The evens inthis extract take place about tw months after the Frank family rst went into ‘when reading this extrac, ty to workout what sortof person Anne is, based on what she sys an how ene behaves DAO OU choIn By Anne Frank Monday, 21 September 1942 Dearest Kits Tday tell you the general news herein the Annexe. Alamp has been mounted above my divan bed so that in the future, when I hear the guns going off, beable to pullacord and Siteh on the light I car'tuse tat the moment because we're Keeping our window open alte, ay and aight. “The male members ofthe van Daan contingent have built avery handy wood- Stained food sefe, with ral screens. Up tll now this gloiaus cupboard has been located in Pete's room, butin the interests of fresh alr it’s been moved tothe attic. Wher itonce stood, there's now shelf. advised Peter to puthis table underneath the shel, adda nie rug and hhang his own cupboard where the table now stands. That might make his tle cubbyhole ‘nore comfy, though Lertaaly wouldn ike to sleep there,irs van Daan is unbearable. t'm continually being scolded for my incessant chatter when Tin ‘upstairs. (simply let the words bounce right off ‘me! Madame now has s new tick up her sleeve: ‘uyingto get out of washing the pots and pane if there's a bitof fod lft tthe bottom ofthe pan, ‘he leaves it to spol instead of transferring it > a glass dish. Than in the aftemoon when Margot is stuck with cleaning all the pots and pans, Madame exclaims,"Oh, por Margo, you have so uch work to dl” very other week Mr Kleiman brings mea couple ofbooks written for girs my age'm tenthusiastic about the Joop tr Heul series. ve enjoyed al of Cissy van Manxveldt's books very ‘uc Ive read The Zaniest Summer four ies, find the ludicrous etuations etl make me laugh, Father and {are currently working on our farnly tree, and he tells me something bout teach person as we go along, Te begun my schoolwork. 'm working hard at French, cramming fveiregular vers into ‘my head every dey. But Ive forgotten mach too ‘mich of what learned in school eter has taken up his English with great reluctance. A few achoolbooks have just arrived, and [brought a lage supply of exercise-books, penells, rubbers and labels from home. Pim (that’s our pet name for Father) wants me to 4 pessow engin? ‘help him with his Dutch lessons. 'm perfectly willing to teach him in exchange fr his ‘assistance with French and other subjects. But ‘he makes the most unbelievable mistakes! Tsometies listen to the Dutch broadeasts from London. Prince Bernard recently snnouced that Princes liana i expecting bby in January, which Ithinkis wonderful No one here understands why Itake such an interest in the Royal Family, ‘Dede aed Cogan 5 Breakaway tasks Remembering eforeit ws moved othe Understanding ee ere a the moran? 4. Wty does Anne suger that Peter uti able spun nas eaugwshangh oan Applying iremigs that you fund ic 1 6 Wht five questions would you le to skAnre Fan Analysing 7. Whatpans ofthe tx sow ta there awargcng nt Evaluating 8 List the word to deste hw you woud ee act er confines pace wi anther Sy What does Anne tink of ater How have you come ta Creating 1 Write a eter fom Petes poi of io i ast ‘and abot tes sae nade,The diary of Sergeant Cyril Lawrence Sergeant Cyl Lawrence wi at Gallipoli in 1945, during the First World ‘was an engineer, responsible for cigaing tun trenches tohelp the ANZAC forces in their bates against the Turks, He survived the horrers ofthat ful serve in the Austalian ry is less personal than Anne Franks tas «record of his 5 as a solder and it was meant 1 be shared with thers so itis actually more af jo than a personal diary. He wes much older then Anne (oe was twenty-five years old) and he was amlitary man, so the writing syle is vey different. He was sls writing thitty years before Anne Frank, so some ofthe language is different (ane Sereeiesee Ifyou goto the Ausra War Mera webite and serch ‘svefal other ters incng abraceeshe ae or sster Greertictewinangckire gy ae |estreovarse Cape Hees ber Ke UAA Le ROEN aed Bae Nee Cees iy Cyr LAN Monday 4 ne "By Cyr LAN Rose at 7.45 aa. Weather very fine, Nt much doing out ofthe ordinary, onl ie fe anda few shells. One went right through a man's chest whilst he was lying inthe hospital w inded and ing to goon the hospital ship. was down there fora walk and saw i al. Ugh! Oh forgo Yesterday morning two cruisers came along and bombarded Gaba Tepe. The Turks are tying. ‘mount gun there. Gee, there were just acres of ditin the at at once. General Walker came into our tunnel tonight and wae teling us that ‘when our reinforcements arrive we will have 8 charge. Golly, that wil be the time I fel quite Diooathirsty. ‘Tuesday 15 june Up at7.15 am, Weather stl simply glorious There isa furious borabardment on a8 Ta writing this—shells everywhere. Down the coast there is @ monitor fring st ‘something’ and can see the earth fying up by the ton Really these igh explosive shells are terifc. Am going t have little snocze later—Went to work sbout 245 pam. and found thatthe Turks had placed eighteen eight {inch shell ll around our tunnel mouth. They ‘must ave tumbled that tis there, Later as we ‘were having tea two shells parsed just over ‘our heads and burt just under the muzzle of ‘Warren's gon. We were watching these when ‘aman came up witha shell high explosive fone—and asked fora hammer to open itup.1 fexplsined what a rik he was taking nd gave im aharnmer. He started to hammer away right amongst us, We immediately choced himoff and forgot all about him. By tis time shells ‘were bursting everywhere round us and all of ‘sudden a terrific explosion took place just a few yards from us A great loud of dust rose up and we all thought that we were sho, but: subsided we saw sting inthe middle of it the man with the shell He was black from head to foot and groaning Rinning over, we found that he had blown his leg to pieces up near the thigh. Thank God he got away from us. His mate did the same thing for himself last week. Some of ‘these man will neve learn sense. About 11 pm. tonight a Turk shoved his hand down the air hole inthe drive just opposite me, It scared the wits out of us all We could hear them crawling around above us all night. The men in the fring line evident shot one, as we could hear him ‘roaming just above us, Thie morning «sea plane was about for along time, evidently on {he unt for submarines, The enemy fred at her ‘great deal but did no good. This evening we ould hear the machine gun or rife ire from the ‘Alliss down at ach Baba 5 rearranges? Wednesday 16 june Up about 715 am, Bread today also heaps of shrapnel from all sides. Have slept all the ‘morning and stn going t have another doze nowt Shrapnel is bursting all around us a treat. {wonder what tonight wil bring along. Last right was quite exciting {even forgo: that bad the toothache ater—nota single thing happened tonight ‘except that we got caught ina perfect Hell of shrapnel on our way to work and had to take Shelter under a bank, We did not know that two of ur guns were just above us. They both ‘went off at once and nearly blew us down the ‘ily. We bolted from here across an open spece tothe trenches. Cally! Shells, bullets and dirt fying everywhere. aaw the reserve men being called up so they evidently expected an attace ‘Anyhow it never came of.Breakaway tasks Remembering AF une 1015 Seay Mother and Father, | am oiting to you from may dugout The eathevis glorious, bt something vather interesting happened yesterday,Sergeant John James Dwyer VC ‘Sergeant James Daye was at Lovet (now Cnet) ‘Tasmania. He was bor on he thf March 1890 Jon ved with Iistater Chistes Dyer He elite neu 1913 dered alii with he sth Bataion-t 1916 bs went France wih he Ts Machine Gan Company Next year on the 26 of September 1917 ding the ale of Polygon Wood (Zonebeke Begin), Dyers Vickers machine nam cme une ie vat he ed pun fora, st ‘int blank ange put the eneny zum outa action He he ook Neth weapon and helped repulse German counter tack ater ster his Vickers was blown vp by shell, ele fis eam bck through he ety trae to sear ne nd thot ting no ation Atal nes, he showed ontop of danger, heres an rape Dwyer was commissioned may 1918 an retuned Australi five months ate Back in Tasmania ebeame ace in oa ffs of Plies, He esas swamping business at New Nook. tn 1951 be ened stare paament an evel held eve Important oie including hat of depty pense. Der secived the Viera Cos, service med fo the Fist ‘ord Was and coronation med foe King George VI and Queen ‘labo ‘Sergeant Soa James ed on the 7 of any 1962 in Tasmania. ‘Ebony Woodburn 73Psy pet nowt oi youn mans rng ine ran ning be Re re 15