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discussing the need to share current information

Why was Miss Breed writing magazine articles and letters?

What did Jack mean when he said that the place might not even "be on the map"?

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• How can you connect our learning of Japanese Americans during World War 2 to other topics we have discussed this school year?

• How do primary sources allow us to deeply analyze significant historical events?

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Why did Miss Breed continued to send packages?

What is the significance of the letters?

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Only include resources that are educational and historically correct. Importance of using accurate vocabulary.

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Asian American

Executive relocation order

Imprison

Activist

Enemy

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sharing the importance of understanding different texts and gaining knowledge

having historically accurate text

having current text that students could relate to

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Vocabulary: incarceration, evacuation, internment/concentration camps

Importance of primary sources

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being intentional with the vocabulary that we are teaching students that show the full story (similar to headline activity)

What postcard stood out to you and why? (primary sources)

A deeper dive into the term activist

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gave vocab that can be misused vs accurate vocab

making sure to include primary sources when available

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Using accurate vocabulary:

Evacuation>Forced Removal

Internment>Incarceration

Internment Camps>Concentration Camps

How did Miss Breed have an impact on the children's lives while in the concentration camps?

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Civilian Exclusion

Evacuation

Assembly Centers

Concentration Camps

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Use different forms of primary sources (pictures, news)

Introducing proper vocabulary

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Vocabulary: the accurate definition and how it was used during this time period

ensuring vocab is relevant to reading/videos

Significance of primary source use

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What are best practices to "backchannel" or "correct" proper vocabulary, as it relates to content, with our students? It is likely that students have certain improper terminology(s) attached to these subjects.

What are best practices to teach about stereotypes while being sensitive to terminology?

camps --> prisons (the term camp can be commonly used today/with children...and that word typically indicates a more positive experience)

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Books:

Baseball Saved Us, By: Ken Mochizuki

Fish for Jimmy, By: Katie Yamasaki

Flowers from Mariko, By: Rick Noguchi, Deneen Jenks, Michelle Reiko Kumata

TedTalk- Animation:

Ugly History: Japanese American incarceration camps - Densho

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Why don't we use certain vocabulary that was used in the past anymore?

Why is it important to learn about the forced removal of Asian-Americans?

Name several different places that Miss Breed was receiving postcards from.

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being aware of how Japanese incarceration is framed in relation to the Holocaust

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Assembly centers vs. Detention centers

Evacuation

Internment vs. Incarceration

Relocation

Resettlement

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Paper Wishes by Lois Sepahban

A Scarf for Keiko by Ann Malaspina

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"The protagonist is young Emi, who is sad as she, older sister Reiko, and her mother prepare for removal from their Berkeley home in the spring of 1942, her father having already been arrested and interned elsewhere. Laurie Madison, her best friend, stops by just before with the gift of a bracelet. They then gather for removal to Tanforan and their horse stall home. But somewhere in the moving, she loses the bracelet. Good depiction of removal and incarceration and a nice message/story. Yardley’s watercolor illustrations are colorful and realistic, though are perhaps not as eye-catching as those in many of the other books on this list."

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Lesson plan: https://educators.brainpop.com/lesson-plan/japanese-american-incarceration-lesson-plan-time-continuity-and-change/

Video:

https://densho.org/teach/brainpop/

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Japanese-American Incarceration Lesson Plan: Time, Continuity, and Change | BrainPOP Educators

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This lesson accompanies the BrainPOP topic Japanese-American Incarceration, and supports the standard of constructing an interpretation of why the U.S. government incarcerated Japanese Americans, as well as the effects of the incarceration. Students demonstrate understanding through a variety of projects.

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A child's perspective of the internment of Japanese Americans in WWII

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Autobiographical children's picture book about a pet bird who enlivens a Japanese American family's confinement in a World War II concentration camp.

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Graphic novel: Displacement by Kiku Hughes

"A teenager is pulled back in time to witness her grandmother's experiences in World War II-era Japanese internment camps"

A Place Where Sunflowers Grow by  Amy Lee-Tai

"Under the harsh summer sun, Mari’s art class has begun. But it’s hard to think of anything to draw in a place where nothing beautiful grows — especially a place like Topaz, the internment camp where Mari’s family and thousands of other Japanese Americans have been sent to live during World War II. Somehow, glimmers of hope begin to surface — in the eyes of a kindly art teacher, in the tender words of Mari’s parents, and in the smile of a new friend."

My Lost Freedom: A Japanese American World War II Story by George Takei

"In My Lost Freedom, George Takei looks back at his own memories to help children today understand what it feels like to be treated as an enemy by your own country. Featuring powerful, meticulously researched watercolor paintings, this is a story of a family's courage, a young boy's resilience, and the importance of staying true to yourself in the face of injustice."

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For older children (4th-5th): https://www.getepic.com/app/read/81532

teachers can maybe read this by chapter. Each chapter is about 4 pages, with really rich pictures WITH captions.

A Scarf for Keiko: this book is in Sam (Keiko's classmate) who is Jewish. He witnesses some of the discrimination that Keiko faces. She teaches Sam how to knit, and the book ends with Sam finishing knitting a scarf for Keiko.

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A Place Where Sunflowers Grow- historical fiction, a young Japanese girl is relocated to an internment camp in Utah and learns to find beauty in unlikely places.

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a place where sunflowers grow (english and japanese edition)

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historical - united states - 20th century

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japanese americans - evacuation and relocation

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juvenile fiction / historical / united states / 20th century

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juvenile fiction/historical - united states - 20th century

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juvenile fiction/people & places - united states - asian american

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A Place Where Sunflowers Grow (English and Japanese Edition)

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Under the harsh summer sun, Mari's art class has begun. But it's hard to think of anything to draw in a place where nothing beautiful grows - especially a place like Topaz, the internment camp where Mari's family and thousands of other Japanese Americans have been sent to ...

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I Am an American: A True Story of Japanese Internment

Upper Grades/Middle School

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In My Lost Freedom, George Takei looks back at his own memories to help children today understand what it feels like to be treated as an enemy by your own country. Featuring powerful, meticulously researched watercolor paintings, this is a story of a family’s courage, a young boy’s resilience, and the importance of staying true to yourself in the face of injustice.

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This one is largely set after camp, beginning as protagonist Mariko gets ready to leave an unspecified camp (though cactus suggests one of the Arizona ones) with her parents and little sister Emi to return home to California. They end up in a trailer camp, the father jobless, the situation desperate. Mariko’s flower garden at the trailer camp provides a small sliver of hope.

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The Bracelet, by Yoshiko Uchida

A Place Where Sunflowers Grow, by Amy Lee-Tai

Love in the Library, By Maggie Tokuda-Hall

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Flowers from Mariko, By: Rick Noguchi, Deneen Jenks, Michelle Reiko Kumata

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Flowers from Mariko, By: Rick Noguchi, Deneen Jenks, Michelle Reiko Kumata

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One girl's love and determination lift the spirits of her family after they are finally allowed to leave the internment camp they were placed in during WWII. World War II is over and Mariko and her family are finally allowed to leave the camp. But the transition back into society isn't easy.

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Kids might be engaged with this video because it features kids! It also gives you a chance to get the perspective of someone who lived through this event since you might not have access to someone in your community to come in themselves. You can follow up by having a class discussion about the video.

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Kids Meet a Survivor of the Japanese-American Internment | Kids Meet | HiHo Kids

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Ugly History: Japanese American incarceration camps - Densho

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Executive Order 9066 - Japanese American Incarceration

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-specifically says "prison camps"...could be best practice when needing to teach "hard history"

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Set in an incarceration camp where the United States cruelly detained Japanese Americans during WWII and based on true events, this moving love story finds hope in heartbreak.To fall in love is already a gift. But to fall in love in a place like Minidoka, a place built to make people feel like they weren’t human—that was miraculous.After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Tama is sent to live in a War Relocation Center in the desert. All Japanese Americans from the West Coast—elderly people, children, babies—now live in prison camps like Minodoka. To be who she is has become a crime, it seems, and Tama doesn’t know when or if she will ever leave. Trying not to think of the life she once had, she works in the camp’s tiny library, taking solace in pages bursting with color and light, love and fairness. And she isn’t the only one. George waits each morning by the door, his arms piled with books checked out the day before. As their friendship grows, Tama wonders: Can anyone possibly read so much? Is she the reason George comes to the library every day? Maggie Tokuda-Hall’s beautifully illustrated, elegant love story features a photo of the real Tama and George—the author’s grandparents—along with an afterword and other back matter for readers to learn more about a time in our history that continues to resonate.

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A Place to Belong

Discusses displacement after Incarceration Camps

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For two boys in a Japanese-American family, everything changed when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and the United States went to war. With the family forced to leave their home and go to an internment camp, Jimmy loses his appetite. Older brother Taro takes matters into his own hands and, night after night, sneaks out of the camp, and catches fresh fish for Jimmy to help make him strong again.

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Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI4NoVWq87M&t=12s

Dives into the injustice of Japanese American Internment Camps and how Japanese Americans felt during this time period

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Ugly History: Japanese American incarceration camps - Densho

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Alternative Facts: The Lies of Executive Order 9066

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The untold story of lies, deceit and a failure of democracy.

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In 1942, during the war with Japan, a Japanese-American girl must leave her home. She receives a good-bye gift from her best friend, but loses it at her new home. Emi is afraid that without the bracelet Laurie will disappear from her mind forever.

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Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internment

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The Japanese American History Books Your Little One Needs in Their Library

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Here’s a quick rundown of the children’s picture books on Japanese American incarceration to introduce your little one to this history.

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Smithsonian Video: Children in Concentration (Internment) Camps

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Smithsonian Video: Children in Concentration (Internment) Camps

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Children in Internment Camps: A Japanese American's Reflection

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We Hereby Refuse, By: Frank Abe and Tamiko Nimura

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We Hereby Refuse, By: Frank Abe and Tamiko Nimura

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Three voices. Three acts of defiance. One mass injustice. The story of camp as you’ve never seen it before. Japanese Americans complied when evicted from their homes in World War II -- but many refused to submit to imprisonment in American concentration camps without a fight.

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We Hereby Refuse, By: Frank Abe and Tamiko Nimura

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A young boy finds strength through baseball while imprisoned in a Japanese American concentration camp.