The Devil's Arithmetic WebQuest: By Greg
Ott

The Devil's Arithmetic
By Jane Yolen
Classroom Web
Resources

Click here to Download a copy of the WebQuest Worksheet.

The following sites offer some important background for students reading
the novel.  Students should use the sites below to complete the
WebQuest handout and to explore issues related to the Holocaust.  This site
may also be used as supplemental resource for the reading of this novel.
Students with questions relating to issues encountered within the novel may find
related answers here.

The Devil's Arithmetic
Introductory PowerPoint
Presentation

Start Here:  An overview of relevant
background.
(If Link
does not function, skip to the next one)

The United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum
Student Learning Site   A
wealth of Holocaust
background.
Plan on spending
some time at this site.  Extremely informative.

Museum of Tolerance
This is a much
deeper site than it first appears.  Explore.

Museum of Tolerance - 36 Questions about the
Holocaust
You probably have questions.  Find the
answers here.

Holocaust Studies
Overview and Educational
Links

The Teachers Guide to the Holocaust
Visit the Galleries, the Glossary, and the
Web Site.

Additional Novel Resources
The
following sites offer great resources on Hebrew traditions and
expressions

Rabbi Scheinerman's Homepage:
Pesach

Judaism 101:Pesach
Passover

Judaism 101: Common
Expressions and Greetings

The
Auschwitz-Berkenau Memorial and Museum
A haunting
journey through the most notorious extermination
camp.
Virtual Tour of
Auschwitz-Berkenau - select Flash format

State Museum at Majdanek
Concentration Camp on the outskirts of Lublin, Poland

Remembering
Catastrophe
Interactive map with links to current
images from Steve Growler's summer 2000
trip
to 11 Concentration
Camp Memorials

A Message from Jane Yolen, "An Experimental
Act"
An article written by the author about writing
the book.

The German
Propaganda Archive
How does a government control the minds of its
citizens?
Check out this huge
collection of Nazi propaganda of all types.

The Poisonous Mushroom and
other antisemitic propaganda aimed at children
1935
examples of  Nazi antisemitic propaganda used in schools to teach

children blind obedience to the Nazi party and hatred of
Jews.

This page and the web quest handout have been
designed by me (Greg Ott) for the use of my students at Northwestern Middle
School in Alpharetta Georgia.   Visitors are welcome to use these
materials and/or this site to enhance their own study of the novel.  I am
always interested in the successful use of these materials and am likewise
interested in suggested improvements.  Please direct questions and/or
comments to me at [email-masked] .  Thank you
for stopping
by.
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