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This
page contains specific resources developed for teachers using
this Exploration.
General
Resources for this eXploration| The Decision
To Intern
The Internment Experience | Internment
and the Law
Culminating
Activity
General
Resources for this eXploration
- Confinement
and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American
Relocation Sites, National Park Service
PDF Format
(This book is out of print, and the National Park Service no
longer has any paper copies of this publication. It is available
on
their website, but it is included on Digital History as
a backup in PDF format. We believe that this book, produced
by the US Federal Government, is in the public domain.)
Lesson
Plans:
Ideas
for Student Projects:
- Photographic
essay: Students begin by selecting 15 to 20 images
that demonstrate either positive or negative aspects of life
in the internment camps.
Software that supports this type of photographic essay includes
Microsoft Powerpoint and Photostory.
Images should have captions and sources cited.
Optional writing activity: Students can write an essay to explain
what aspect of camp-life they are trying to show through the
photographs.
- Diary:
Students write a diary that gives a general overview of the
events leading up the internment, and what life was like inside
the camps.
Students can include photographs or drawings iwith the text.
- Newspaper
story: Individually or in groups, students create
newspapers detailing different aspects of one particular camp.
Articles should have headlines and pull quotes and can include
photographs to accompany the articles, along with photo captions.
- Government
Press: Students write and then deliver a three-minute
speech that announces the call to intern Japanese-Americans,
and explains why this is necessary.
- Children's
Book: Students write text and illustrate a picture
book of at least 5 pages to teach first through third graders.
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eXploration
1: The Decision to Intern Japanese Americans
Introduce
this section with a video from the Prelinger Archives :
(http://www.archive.org/movies/prelinger.php)
- Japanese
Relocation, a U.S. government-produced film (1943)
defending the World War II internment of Japanese American citizens.
Producer: U.S. Office of War Information
Time: 9:26 minutes
Format:
- A
Challenge to Democracy (ca. 1944), a government-produced
film attempting to defend the massive internment of Japanese
Americans in concentration camps during World War II.
Producer: U.S. War Relocation Authority
Time: 17 minutes,
Format:
Resources:
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eXploration
2: The Internment Experience
Inquiry
Questions:
- Does
this episode in American history remind you of anything else?
- Why
are attitudes about this incident in history so drastically
different today than they were almost 60 years ago?
- What
would you have done if you were a Japanese American living at
the time?
- What
could the U.S. Government do to right the wrongs? Has it done
enough?
- Do
you think racism toward Japanese Americans still exists today?
Why or why not?
Readings:
- Poignant
Memories
Relocation to internment camp was a nightmare for Japanese-American
couple
By STEFANIE ASIN
Copyright 1995 Houston Chronicle
"It
was 1942, and Mas and Lily Yamasaki were deeply in love and
newly married, ready to share the rest of their lives together.
But first, they had to share a nightmare."
http://www.chron.com/content/interactive/special/vj/memories.html
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eXploration
3: Internment and the Law
Supreme
Court Decisions:
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