Zlata Filipovi 
an eleven-year-old Bosnian girl, wrote Zlata’s Diary in 1992 during he Bosnian War. Zlata lived in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia, where some of he worst fighting happened. In her diary, Zlata describes how difficult life in arajevo has become. She has very few friends left to play with, can’t go to chool, lives in an apartment without telephones, electricity, or water, and has
very little food. Friends of her family have been killed and some of her relatives re missing. Zlata describes the fear she felt when she thought her mother might
have been killed or injured in a shell attack. She tells about how the war is estroying her childhood and her parents’ lives.
Literary Words:
figure of speech: a group of words different from their literal meaning
hyperbole: figure of speech that uses exaggeration
Academic Words:
consist = are made up of or contain
particular things or people
establish = create; organize
method = a planned way of doing something
stress = continuous feelings of worry
caused by difficulties in your life
Highlighted Words:
- shells: bombs
- grown-ups: adults
- Emergency Clinic: place to go for emergency medical attention
- nag: person who asks forsomething again and again
- beside ourselves: very worried
- I’ve got a lump in my throat: I feel like crying
- knot in my tummy: bad feeling about something
- madhouse: place where everyone seems crazy
- tearing our hair out: feeling very worried
- dismembered bodies: bodies with missing arms or legs
- the “kids”: Zlata’s slang for the politicians
- outwit: be more clever than; trick
- wind up: end up; finally be
- colleagues: fellow workers
- walking my feet off: walking a lot
- Czerny, Bach, Mozart, and Chopin:
composers who wrote piano music
composers who wrote piano music
- for ages: for a long time
- shortage: lack
- back to earth: back to reality
- scattered: spread out
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