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    This document provides instructions for a webquest to enhance understanding of the historical context of the novel "The Devil's Arithmetic" by exploring various educational websites about the Holocaust. Students are directed to learn about Nazi propaganda in schools, the persecution of Jews, concentration camps, and Jewish customs to appreciate how the story engages with humanity's capacity for both good and evil. Completing the webquest activities is meant to provide important background information on the Holocaust to more deeply comprehend themes in the novel.

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    This document provides instructions for a webquest to enhance understanding of the historical context of the novel "The Devil's Arithmetic" by exploring various educational websites about the Holocaust. Students are directed to learn about Nazi propaganda in schools, the persecution of Jews, concentration camps, and Jewish customs to appreciate how the story engages with humanity's capacity for both good and evil. Completing the webquest activities is meant to provide important background information on the Holocaust to more deeply comprehend themes in the novel.

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    This document provides instructions for a webquest to enhance understanding of the historical context of the novel "The Devil's Arithmetic" by exploring various educational websites about the Holocaust. Students are directed to learn about Nazi propaganda in schools, the persecution of Jews, concentration camps, and Jewish customs to appreciate how the story engages with humanity's capacity for both good and evil. Completing the webquest activities is meant to provide important background information on the Holocaust to more deeply comprehend themes in the novel.

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    This document provides instructions for a webquest to enhance understanding of the historical context of the novel "The Devil's Arithmetic" by exploring various educational websites about the Holocaust. Students are directed to learn about Nazi propaganda in schools, the persecution of Jews, concentration camps, and Jewish customs to appreciate how the story engages with humanity's capacity for both good and evil. Completing the webquest activities is meant to provide important background information on the Holocaust to more deeply comprehend themes in the novel.

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    Name:________________________________

    The Devils Arithmetic Introductory Webquest


    By Jane Yolen Class: ___________ Date: ______________

    The following experience is designed to make your reading of the novel more meaningful. Since much of the story is set during the
    Holocaust and involves many Jewish customs, a basic understanding of the history and the culture is necessary to fully appreciate it.
    Enter this experience with an open and thoughtful mind. A journey into this history will expose you to both the best and to the worst
    of humanity. It is both a journey into the potential evil that we as humans can perpetrate on our fellow man and into the potential
    power of the human spirit when faced with that evil.

    Access: Type www2.fultonschools.org/teacher/ottg into the address bar of your web browser to begin.

    Step #1 View the Introductory PowerPoint Presentation making sure to read all of the given text before proceeding to the next step.
    What do you expect from a story set in this historical background? Explain
    _____________________________________________________________________________
    _____________________________________________________________________________
    _____________________________________________________________________________
    Step #2 Enter the United States Memorial Holocaust Museum Student Learning site and the various headings. Answer the
    following questions as you go, but dont limit your experience here to the questions themselves.

    How were schools used to spread Nazi ideas and antisemitisim? ________________________________________________________

    ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

    Explain Hitlers attitude towards the handicapped. _________________________________________________________________

    ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

    Why do you think that many people didnt notice the harassment of German Jews before the war? _____________________________

    ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

    What were the Nuremberg Laws?_________________________________________________________________________________

    ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

    What is meant by ARBEIT MACHT FREI,and where might one have seen it? __________________________________________

    ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

    What was the difference between the concentration camps and the extermination camps? _________________________________

    ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________

    What was the Sonderkommando? ________________________________________________________________________________

    After you have completed your exploration of this site, what is your reaction to something that you learned from the experience?
    _____________________________________________________________________________
    _____________________________________________________________________________
    _____________________________________________________________________________
    _____________________________________________________________________________
    _____________________________________________________________________________
    Step #3 Browse the Museum of Tolerance. Discuss something that you discovered that you did not notice on the previous site.
    _____________________________________________________________________________
    _____________________________________________________________________________
    _____________________________________________________________________________
    Step #4 Browse the 36 Questions about the Holocaust for several questions that you actually are interested in knowing more about.
    Discuss your findings here.
    _____________________________________________________________________________
    _____________________________________________________________________________
    _____________________________________________________________________________
    _____________________________________________________________________________
    _____________________________________________________________________________
    Step #5 Browse the Holocaust Studies Site for areas of interest. Make sure to hit the Trains and the Labor Camps. Discuss your
    findings here.
    _____________________________________________________________________________
    _____________________________________________________________________________
    _____________________________________________________________________________
    _____________________________________________________________________________
    _____________________________________________________________________________
    Step #6 Browse the designate areas of the Teachers Guide to the Holocaust. Write down at least two questions that this information
    has raised in your mind.
    _____________________________________________________________________________
    _____________________________________________________________________________
    _____________________________________________________________________________
    Step #7 - Visit the Additional Novel Resources and browse the Passover Traditions and Yiddish Phrases sites in order to find the
    answers to the following questions:

    What historical event is celebrated by the Passover ?_________________________________________________________________

    ________________________________________________________________When does the next Passover begin? _____________

    What is the Haggadah? ________________________________________________________________________________________

    What Prophet plays a significant symbolic role in the Passover seder? Explain? __________________________________________

    What six items are found on the seder plate and what does each one symbolize?

    1.____________________________________________________ 2.________________________________________________

    3.____________________________________________________ 4.________________________________________________

    5.____________________________________________________ 6.________________________________________________

    What appears to be the main theme of this holiday? __________________________________________________________________

    What Yiddish expression might you hear at a party before a toast? _____________________

    What does it mean? __________________________________________________________

    The rest of the sites on this page are for enrichment purposes. I encourage you to explore them for areas of interest. You may also
    want to revisit the sites you have already surveyed. You have only scratched the surface of the information available on the multitude
    of issues raised by the historical setting of The Devils Arithmetic.
    Considering everything that you have been exposed to today, what three themes seem to emerge from it all?

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