Tuesday 22 May 2012
Blogging using criteria
As you begin to blog about Devil's Arithmetic remember to refer to your criteria sheet. Creating a powerful response needs to include a passage or quote that clearly shows persecution occurring in the novel. This quote/passage needs to have made you react strongly in some way - angered, frustrated, devastated, in disbelief. Copy the passage/quote directly from the novel and include the page number it can be found on. Explain your feelings and emotions you felt when reading this and explain why. Go into detail as this will show a deeper level of understanding. A powerful response also needs to included connections. As everyone is now on their second novel, maybe more, you can connect to what you have already read. What is similar or dissimilar about the characters, about the events? Finally, leave off by asking a deep thinking question. What do you wonder about, what questions do you have? It might be about something we have talked about in class and you have been thinking about it, wondering about it? Maybe it is something that has occurred in the novel and you would like to hear others' opinions. This is the time to ask.
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ReplyDeleteThat was when they discovered that three old women had died and the fourth was near death and could not climb out of the car. All four bodies were slung out by the soldiers onto a siding. The dead baby was torn from its mother's arms and cast behind a horse's trough.
When Hannah was traveling in the boxcar, I became so angry that the Nazis would put so many Jews in one car that they had no room to breathe, nothing to eat, or sit. They would do this until they arrived at their location, some Jews would be killed in the process because of suffocation or starvation. It makes me angry that some Nazis could live with themselves knowing that this is happening because of them. The same kind of thing happened in Daniel's Story where they traveled in a boxcar from camp to camp and many people died because the Nazis gave them no air, no water, and no food. This also makes me think: Were the Nazis OK with this kind of treatment? Or were they just following orders so their families would not be killed? Also, what made Hitler have that kind of hatred for the Jews?
For one, the Nazi soldiers were either killing Jews or having their family killed. They had no choice or say. And secondly, Hitler didn't like Jews because of the fact that they didn't have blond hair nor blue eyes. Hitler thought that the perfect race was blonde hair and blue eyes because he thought that race was pure.
DeleteGame - a very good response as your voice was strong from sharing your emotional reactions. Many Germans were put in a position of having to kill the Jews and others or be killed or imprisoned themselves. It became a race of survival for many. I wonder if there were many SS soldiers who committed suicide during the war because they could not longer stand to live with themselves.
DeleteRemember to include the direct passage, put into quotation marks, that you are using as the base of your reflection.
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ReplyDelete"May they all rest in peace" -Hannah
I think that what Hannah knows will help her because she knows what happens. I'm also scared because I think that when she says "all", I realize that out of the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust, Hannah, or any of the people she knew could've been one of them
Do you think one little 10 year old girl could possibly change the future? I don’t think Hannah by herself could. But why her, why was she the one chosen to go back in time during the holocaust? While reading this book this is the main question that’s wandering through my head. Is she still a person in the future or did something happen to her? Was she the only one who got sent back into the past? I wouldn’t know what was happening if I was her. Will she survive with all the knowledge she has of the holocaust?
ReplyDeleteI have often wondered myself these questions. If there was one author I would like to talk to this is the one. I would like to better understand why Hannah was chosen to go back. The obvious is that she needed to better understand and appreciate her past and what her family had to go through. Too often, when we are removed from such horrors, they simply become just stories rather than powerful messages. But I am curious as to why Hannah played the role she did how this fits with the ending. I won't give that away though.
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ReplyDelete“Any reaction?” Yitzchak asked.
“Yes. They ran their fingers across their thoughts.”
“The bastards. Do they care nothing?” a woman asked. Shmuel answered, “Did they ever?”.... So on..
This passage had me heartbroken because they had it all figured out. They kinda knew what was going to happen and why. Just the thought of knowing is upsetting. For me just reading about our past is eye opening and how they thought Hitler wasn’t going to do anything. The human race guessed wrong and our future may have been different with the decision of most of the world...
Something to think about right now in the world. The country of Syria is in shambles. There is a civil war going on, which means a war within a country, and many are being killed, many innocent people such as women and children. I am not 100% sure of how it all began but things are rapidly growing out of control. The United Nations continues to warn them to stop. They have had peace treaties signed but this is not working. It is reminding me of when Hitler did his take over of France yet the world stood by. Will the world continue to allow all the killing in Syria or will it be stopped somehow?
ReplyDeletei have a cennection t/s hannah hates it when her grandma and grandpa talk on and on about the past i know i do i dont like the kind of story s my grandparents tell they always start off with "when i was a boy..." it's so annoying not to mention the cheek pinching i know exactly how hannah feels thats my cennection.
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