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Pick any 5
(FIVE) activities from this section and complete them thoroughly. Number the activity and place it in a 3-prong
folder labeled “The Bill of Rights in Crisis and Driven by Hatred.” The writings must be in blue or black ink or typed, font size 12 or 14.
Posters must be neat and readable from a distance. Each activity is worth 20 points.
1. Write 2 (minimum ½ page each) editorials:
one arguing that the relocation of citizen’s whose ancestors came from
countries at was with the U.S. is justified, even if it does violate their
civil rights. The other editorial should
oppose relocation.
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On the Burneson Library homepage, click on Subscription Resources. ·
Click on EBSCO
(online magazines/newspapers) ·
On the next
screen, choose Student Research Center
Grades 9-12 ·
You can copy
the title of the article (with quotes) and then paste on the search line in
EBSCO. “Opposition to Internment: Defending Japanese American Rights During World War II” “Journey into a dark past” “Why FDR did what he did” “Harsh winds shake the dust from Manzanar’s Past” “Evacuation
and Internment during World War II” “A
terrible Idea” Ambrose “Before
the Colors Fade” American Heritage, June, 1969 p. 22+ (Recounts feelings about the
Japanese and how those sentiments were fanned; hard copy of this article is
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2. Find a copy of Executive Order
9066. Include that in your article and
write a mock interview (minimum 2 pages) with President Roosevelt and the
Secretary of War as to what they were thinking when they wrote the order.
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National
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3. Exclusion Order #27—Make a poster specifying
whom in the U.S. is excluded, instructions of what
they could take.
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JACKDAW KIT Japanese American
Internment |
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4. Make a 3
dimensional map showing at least 5 of the relocation camps, include Manzanar.
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Scroll down to Japanese American
Internment camps |
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5. Write a (1 page minimum writing) magazine article about life in the
camps. Include 5 photos.
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On the Burneson Library homepage, click on Subscription Resources. ·
Click on EBSCO
(online magazines/newspapers) ·
On the next
screen, choose Student Research Center
Grades 9-12 ·
You can copy
the title of the article (with quotes) and then paste on the search line in
EBSCO. |
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“Life
in the Camps” “Teenage
Prisoner of War” “Remembering
Manzanar” |
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Food in the camps |
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Daily Life | Basic Necessities | Family Separation
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Read the Yasutake
Story |
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An overview of each of the relocation camps |
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6. Write (1 page minimum) school essay on the prompt: “my last day at home”
chronicling your feelings about your internment.
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p. 205+ Terry Grimmesey “What Had we Done?” |
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7. Put together 4 pages of photos and captions for a yearbook showing
Japanese children in internment schools.
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Many of the other books in the library
about Japanese Internment have photos of children in the internment
schools. You can scan the photo, or
make a copy. |
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scrapbook has some photos of
internment schools and children in them |
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click on photos for description |
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8. Read Supreme Court Case Korematsu versus the
United States. Write a (1/2 page
minimum) majority opinion agreeing with the ruling, and also a (1/2 page
minimum) minority opinion dissenting the decision.
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On the Burneson Library homepage, click on Subscription Resources. ·
Click on EBSCO
(online magazines/newspapers) ·
On the next
screen, choose Student Research Center
Grades 9-12 ·
You can copy
the title of the article (with quotes) and author, and then paste on the
search line in EBSCO. “To
Clear his name” Biography |
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9. Find and include a
copy of Public Law 100-383/Civil Liberties Act of 1988. Write an article (1 page minimum) describing
what this meant to Japanese Americans.
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Internet Websites |
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Campaign
to redress the rights of Japanese Americans which led to the Civil Liberties
Act of 1988. |
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10.
In a shoebox, make a “Memory Box” consisting
of 5 items symbolic of life in the camp.
Write a sentence telling what each item represents, and why it is
significant enough to keep in the box.
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Use any of the resources in this
pathfinder to determine items that might be symbolic of life in a relocation
camp. |