Article: Inspired by diary to give back.

By Christy Barritt

Correspondent

Tim Schneider wanted his eighth-grade English students to get more than a history or literary lesson when he assigned them to read the "The Diary of Anne Frank" this spring. He sought to change their lives.

After the Great Bridge Middle School teens read the Jewish girl's account of her life in the German-occupied Netherlands during the Holocaust and her subsequent death in a Nazi concentration camp in 1945, Schneider tried to put the story into terms his students could relate to today.

"I asked them, 'What would it be like to have no freedom? To be locked in a house for three years? To barely be able to talk during the ...

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