Anne writes in her diary about various events in her life as a student. She expresses her joy at winning the Avery scholarship and being able to attend Redmond College. However, she also shares the devastating news of Matthew's sudden death from a heart attack, as Matthew was like a father to her and had brought her to Green Gables years ago.

2. Dear Diary,
I absolutely love our new teacher! Miss Stacy must be
a kindred spirit! She is so ladylike and has such a
sweet voice. And when she pronounces my name, I
feel instinctively that she‟s spelling it with an „e‟. I‟m so
glad to be back in school. We had recitations in the
afternoon today and I wish that Marilla and Matthew
could‟ve been there in school with me so they could‟ve
heard me recite “Mary, Queen of Scots”. Also, we went
on this glorious field afternoon! It was absolutely
splendid! We wrote compositions on our field
afternoons and I‟m proud to say that I wrote the best
ones. It‟s so great to be back in school at last!
-Anne

3. Dear Diary,
Such good news today! Miss Stacy told us that we
would be having a concert on Christmas Night to
raise money for a schoolhouse flag. How exciting!
I‟m going to be in two dialogues – “The Society for
the Suppression of Gossip” and “The Fairy Queen”.
Also, we‟re going to have a tableau at the end –
“Faith, Hope, and Charity” and I‟m going to be Hope!
Diana and Ruby would be in it with me.
Josie Pye is sulky because she didn‟t get the part
she wanted. She wanted to be the fairy queen, but
that‟s ridiculous! Fairy queens are supposed to be
slender, and I assure you that Josie is nowhere near
the right standard. Jane Andrews is to be the queen
instead, and I‟m one of her maids of honor.

4. Josie Pye says that a red-haired fairy is even worse
than a fat fairy queen but I won‟t let Josie get to me.
I‟m to have a wreath of white roses on my hair and
Ruby Gillis is going to lend me her slippers because
I haven‟t any of my own.
We will be decorating the hall with creeping spruce
and fir mottoes with pink tissue-paper in them. And
we are all to march in two by two after the audience
is seated, while Emma White plays a march on the
organ! I love having a concert!
-Anne

5. Dear Diary,
It‟s Christmas Day and you won‟t believe what
Matthew got me! It‟s a dress, with puffed sleeves!
It‟s perfectly exquisite. I keep on waiting to wake up
and find out that I didn‟t receive a dress so beautiful
like this one is!
You also won‟t believe what Diana‟s Aunt Josephine
gave me! It‟s a pair of the daintiest little kid slippers,
with beaded toes and satin bows and gleaming
buckles! This is too much; I must be having a
wonderful dream! But now I must go and practice for
the big show.
-Anne

6. Dear Diary,
It was a spectacular evening and I‟m sure that we
must have made as much as ten dollars! Diana told
me that Mr. Allan is going to send an account of it to
the Charlottetown papers! I can‟t wait to see my
name in print, it makes me thrill to think of it. I was
really nervous when Mr. Allan called me up to the
stage, but then I thought of my puffed sleeves and
took courage. I knew that I just had to live up to
those sleeves. When I was done, I thought I saw old
Mrs. Sloane wipe away a tear. I think it‟s splendid
that my recital touched someone‟s heart like that!
-Anne

7. Dear Diary,
Today was dreadful, simply dreadful! There was a
peddler at Green Gables this morning and he had a box
of many interesting things. The peddler told me that he
was a German Jew and that he wanted to make enough
money to bring his wife and children here from out in
Germany. That touched my heart and I knew right then
that I had to buy something from him! Then all at once, I
saw the bottle of hair dye. The peddler said that it was
warranted to dye any hair a beautiful raven-black and
wouldn‟t wash off. I imagined myself with sleek black hair
instead of red and the temptation was irresistible. The
peddler sold it to me for 50 cents. I came up to my
bedroom and applied it on with an old hairbrush as the
directions said. I used up the whole bottle, and oh, when
I saw the horrifying green color it turned my hair, I
repented of being wicked. This is just horrifying! How can
one surely go out in the world with green hair?
-Anne

8. Dear Diary,
Marilla has cut off my hair. I had been trying to wash the
dye out for a full week but it just won‟t go away! Now, I
shall force myself to look in the mirror each and every
day as a penance for being wicked that way.
Josie Pye teased me at school and called me a „perfect
scarecrow‟ but I didn‟t say anything back to her because
I thought it was part of my punishment and I ought to
bear it patiently. I just swept her one scornful look and
forgave her..
Diana says that when my hair begins to grow, to tie a
black velvet ribbon around my head with a bow at one
end. I told her that I will call that a snood – isn‟t that a
romantic name?
-Anne

9. Dear Diary,
Oh, I just can‟t even believe it right now! Miss Stacy
came by Green Gables today and told Marilla that
she wants to organize a class for her advanced
students who want to study for the entrance
examination into Queen‟s! It‟s been the dream of my
life ever since Ruby and Jane began to talk of
studying for the entrance six months before! I‟d love
to be a teacher!
Sadly, Diana didn‟t join the Queen‟s class because
her parents didn‟t want to send her to Queen‟s. This
is a surely a calamity!
-Anne

10. Dear Diary,
These few weeks at Beechwood are so stressful!
We took our examinations today. I was really
nervous during my English examination and I
dreadfully mixed up the dates in my History
examination. Still, I think I did fairly well. Geometry
was all right, I suppose, but I think I may‟ve mixed
some of them up! Oh, I wish Diana was here with
me. If only her parents let her go to Queen‟s!
-Anne

11. Dear Diary,
I passed! I passed the examination! Words cannot
express my happiness! My name is first on the pass
list that Diana brought over. I want to say a hundred
things, and I can‟t find words to say them in!
-Anne

12. Dear Diary,
Today I departed from Green Gables. I will miss
Marilla and Matthew so much… If it weren‟t for
them, I would probably still be in the orphanage, but
with no education, no family, and no friends. I also
exchanged a very tearful goodbye with Diana. I do
wish to see her soon!
-Anne

13. Dear Diary,
The months went by so quickly! I was extremely
homesick during the winter holidays, this being the
first one I‟ve spent away from Green Gables. But,
my new friends Stella Maynard and Priscilla Grant
helped me through it. They are great, great friends.
Thank Goodness that they also have an imagination
like mine.
It‟s getting quite stressful here at the Academy. Jane
said yesterday that she lost seven pounds in the last
two weeks due to worry. I‟m not too worried myself.
Even if I don‟t win the Avery scholarship, I‟ve done
my best and I begin to understand what is meant by
the “joy of the strife”.
-Anne

14. Dear Diary,
I won the Avery scholarship! I honestly can‟t believe
it! Me, Anne Shirley of Green Gables, won the Avery
scholarship! Oh, won‟t Matthew and Marilla be
pleased! I shall be starting at Redmond in
September!
I must go now and tell Diana the wonderful news!
-Anne

15. Dear Diary,
Matthew… he died from a heart attack. It was just
so sudden… the doctor said that his death had been
instantaneous and probably painless. Matthew was
my dad, even if not my biological one, but he meant
a great deal to me. If he had not chosen to bring me
home all those years ago from the train station, I
would‟ve never had what I have now.
I miss him already.
-Anne