The Devil’s Arithmetic
Section 4 p. 65-83
Character Sketcher
Your job is to sketch one of the following characters (that you did not sketch last time in your group): Hannah, Gitl, Shmuel, or Fayge.
Discussion Director
Your job is to write 6 questions, the answers to your questions, and the page and paragraph. Also include where the answers are found if possible. Ask good thinking questions! Ask the following:
1 Compare/Contrast
1 Setting
1 Cause/Effect
1 Opinion Question
1 End of Grade question
1 "thinking" question on your own
Passage Picker
Pick 4 passages that exhibit the following:
1 descriptive
1 interesting
1forshadowing question
1 on your own
Word Wizard
Your job is to complete your role sheet for the following words:
Undistinguishable p. 65 par. 2
Relocated p. 68 par. 8
Periphery p. 73 par. 2
Rabbi p. 78 par. 2
Investigator
The Investigator's job is to examine an outside source (news paper article, web site, encyclopedia, content texts, etc.) that have connections to the book being read and share the information with the group. Share at least two interesting facts you learned from your source and make connections to the book if possible.
Investigator
Example Page
Section 4
I found out that there were actually trains that transported Jewish people to concentration camps during World War II, just like in the book. They actually told the people that they were taking them to different places to protect them and that they would be taken home after the war was over. Some boxcars had up to 150 people stuffed inside of them in freezing and burning hot temperatures. They were not given food or bathroom breaks. The saddest thing that I read on this website was that the longest transport on a train was 18 days and when the Germans opened up the boxcar at the end of the journey, everyone inside had already died.
Information found at
http://www.aish.com/holocaust/overview/he05f21.htm