Multicultural Literature by Nina Caligiuri https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939 Nina Caligiuri en-us 2020-02-21 17:19:11 UTC 2026-02-03 02:26:00 UTC hello@padlet.com Essential Question 23caligiuri_nina https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/448719866 How do different backgrounds shape different people?]]> 2020-02-21 17:26:40 UTC https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/448719866 Focal Texts 23caligiuri_nina https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/448802052 They Called Us Enemy // Book by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, and Steven Scott]]> 2020-02-21 19:26:50 UTC https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/448802052 Summary of "They Called Us Enemy" By George Takei 23caligiuri_nina https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/448808893 They Called Us Enemy is is about a Japanese-American family that experienced what it was like to be betrayed by their own country and have to be transported to Relocation Centers. George Takei is the Protagonist of this Graphic Memoir. His family is forced to leave there home in america and be transported to a relocation camp in Santa Anita Racetrack in 1942 where they were housed in stables. Georges mother, who is the has the strongest confidence to keep her heritage alive becomes extremely sensitive when moving and seeing her country betray her. George's father, or so called "Daddy" becomes a Representative of there "block". After 1946 which  Later on, the book switches to a later time period somewhere in the 2000's and George attends U.C.L.A  and pursues acting. Then starts his acting career. He stars in Star Trek and this brings his japan heritage back. Finally the government sent out apologetic letters to the Japanese- Americans in 1991. Unfortunately Georges father will always believe that the government never apologized for the trauma that they did because he passed away in 1979. Which leads me to the end of They Called Us Enemy.]]> 2020-02-21 19:36:17 UTC https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/448808893 Quote #1: They Called Us Enemy 23caligiuri_nina https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/464947291 "They worked so hard to buy a two bedroom house and raise a family in Los Angels... now we were crammed into a single smelly horse stall..."]]> 2020-03-18 18:25:48 UTC https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/464947291 Quote #2: They Called Us Enemy 23caligiuri_nina https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/464973877 "My father was raised in America but had been born in Japan. Like all Asian immagrants, he was forbidden from applying for a U.S citizenship. Question 27 had asked him to serve in combat for a country that had rejected and then imprisoned him because of his ethnicity."]]> 2020-03-18 18:44:12 UTC https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/464973877 Quote #3: They Called Us Enemy 23caligiuri_nina https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/464982357 "My mother... she was an American born citizen and all her children were Americans. She was married to a man her country rejected and now called an enemy alien. Her country took everything her family had."]]> 2020-03-18 18:50:08 UTC https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/464982357 Companion Novel 23caligiuri_nina https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/466716329 Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet // Book by Jamie Ford]]> 2020-03-19 17:29:38 UTC https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/466716329 Summary of "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet" 23caligiuri_nina https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/466732077 Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet is a novel based off of two kids who fall in love. One, a Chinese American boy named Henry Lee and a Japanese American girl named Keiko Okabe. Henrys dad plays a significant role in the novel. He hates Japanese because they have been at war since ancient times with the Chinese. Henry and Keiko bond over there love for jazz music, but one night while at a concert, both witness Japanese Americans getting arrested. Shortly after, Keiko is told that she will be moving to and interment camp, away from Henry. Once Keiko moves, Henry doesn't loose all conection with her. He visits her every Saturday with the help of the cafeteria manager their named Mrs. Beatty. But Keiko and her family are told that she will be moving to a permeant camp in Idaho. After the devestating news for Henry and Keiko, they try to keep in-touch by writing letters to each other  but that slowly fades. Henry gets news that his father has died  and that he is moving back to china. Once Henry relizes that she isn't replying he writes one last letter telling her to meet him at Panama Hotel, instead the girl, Ethel Chen who has been mailing there letters at the post office meets him there instead. From then on, Ethel and Henry bond and evenly get engaged and married. But Keiko will never fully leave henrys mind.]]> 2020-03-19 17:39:03 UTC https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/466732077 TedTalk: Why I love the country that once betrayed me. (1) 23caligiuri_nina https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/479768730 -George Takei 

]]> 2020-03-28 16:37:40 UTC https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/479768730 Rationale: Why I love the country that once betrayed me. (1) 23caligiuri_nina https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/479770901 George Takei discusses the emotions he felt during WWII. How America completely turned their backs on Japanese Americans, rounded them up, and threw them into interment camps. He informs the public on how his father, even through the camps, still understood democracy. He explains how after the war, when America lets them go, that they still volunteered to help this country even though they were called non aliens and not even citizens. That they were the most loyal people to their county and died for their country. He explains how his hero's taught him how to be a True American, and how to stand today and be a gay Japanese American, and to be proud to be one. ]]> 2020-03-28 16:40:07 UTC https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/479770901 Movie Clip: You don't have to (2016) 23caligiuri_nina https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/479834783  Stephan James, Jason Sudeikis Movie HD

]]> 2020-03-28 17:55:54 UTC https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/479834783 Rationale: You don't have to (2016) 23caligiuri_nina https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/479840392 The essential question relates perfectly to this clip. A white man (Jason Sudeikis) talks to a black man (Stephan James) about why he shouldn't be missing the opportunity of a lifetime, to get famous by sports. But James argues his point, respectably he says he has people that look up to him in the black community. Jason replies, "what people, Black poeple, I dont give a **** about any of that!" and James yells back "Yeah well you're white! You don't have to!"James grew up being left in the shadows, and being marginalized greatly, he finally has a chance to prove himself worth. He is afraid of failing and letting down the black community and potentially proofing the white point of blacks don't belong in a "white" sport. ]]> 2020-03-28 18:02:49 UTC https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/479840392 Poem: "My Spanish" 23caligiuri_nina https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/479865595 -Melissa Lozada-Olivia

]]> 2020-03-28 18:35:22 UTC https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/479865595 Rationale: "My Spanish" 23caligiuri_nina https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/479879598 Melissa reads her very own poem, My Spanish. She explains what her Spanish is to her. Why is it always associated with food, how her mother and father tried to speak English. Her Spanish is so very important to her. She grew up with her Spanish. Her Spanish is her identity, her Spanish shaped her as a person, her Spanish talks to her. If she wasn't Spanish, who would she be? Melissa explains her Spanish is a story of her parents traveling, her tears falling. Her Spanish, her Spanish is her identity. ]]> 2020-03-28 18:55:56 UTC https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/479879598 Poetry Slam: A Muslim and Jewish Girls poem 23caligiuri_nina https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/480031466 2020-03-29 00:36:02 UTC https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/480031466 Quote #1: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet 23caligiuri_nina https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/480994942 "Henry had been given dirty looks before but he’d never experienced something like this. He’d heard about things like this in the South. Places like Arkansas or Alabama, but not Seattle. Not the Pacific Northwest."]]> 2020-03-29 21:19:57 UTC https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/480994942 TedTalk: I Am Not Your Asian Stereotype 23caligiuri_nina https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/481110068 - Canwen Xu]]> 2020-03-30 00:15:35 UTC https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/481110068 Rationale: I Am Not Your Asian Stereotype 23caligiuri_nina https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/481111223 The Asian Stereotype, they're good at math, they eat rice everyday, they can't have sleepovers. But not for Canwen Xu. Canwen basically grew up in the U.S. She only lived in china for 2 years of her life. Her background was, because she looked asian and she wasn't white; that she couldn't be white. But when she found herself shaping her identity to try and fit in as a white not who she truly was, she was ashamed. This is called racism. Most Americans don't grow up with racial discrimination being pointed right at them but for Canwen, its different. This TedTalk explains the asian stereotypes and how she is trying to break them. ]]> 2020-03-30 00:17:52 UTC https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/481111223 PBS: Interview and Information of Japanese Internment Camp: Camp Harmony 23caligiuri_nina https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/482497997 -PBS and multiple people being interviewed ]]> 2020-03-30 15:34:24 UTC https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/482497997 Rationale: PBS interview and information of Japanese Internment Camp: Camp Harmony 23caligiuri_nina https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/482506986 This PBS video basically informs people on what the internment camps looked like and dates, camp names etc. The most important part of the video I would say would be the interviews with some of the people that survived through the camps. They talk of their experiences and how that since they were just kids, they only knew of the camps. One person talks of how he grew up there and didn't know of anything else, it became his normality. Another talks of how because of their race, they didn't even have names, they were labeled with numbers. This of course relates back to the focal text I chose, "They Called Us Enemy".]]> 2020-03-30 15:37:36 UTC https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/482506986 Interpretive Dance: "Scars" Anti-bullying dance piece 23caligiuri_nina https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/482580067 -Dubomedy]]> 2020-03-30 16:03:05 UTC https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/482580067 Rationale: Interpretive Dance: "Scars" Anti-Bullying dance piece 23caligiuri_nina https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/482586265 This dance starts off with an audio. The dancer is a Muslim and the audio is people insulting her. They say things like, "are you a terrorist?" or "Why don't you go back to your own country?" These comments relate back to the essential question. A muslims background, it isn't always that they are terrorist or that they live is Syria. They get bullied for who they are. Why? Because it stereotypes. She grows up being bullied and therefore this negative twist in her life, she may begin to believe these comments. Towards the end of the dance, other dancers come to the stage where shirts that say words like "Fat", "Ugly", "Weird", "Short", etc. This is suppose to represent the comments that they receive. But the point that I am trying to make; The main dancer is a Muslim, WHY to they get the blame, because of their backgrounds. Thats why and people need to understand that a persons ancestry is not who they are unless they want to be. ]]> 2020-03-30 16:05:17 UTC https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/482586265 Quote #2: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet 23caligiuri_nina https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/482855250 "Why do you like jazz so much?” Keiko asked.

“I don’t know,” Henry said. […] “Maybe because it’s so different, but people everywhere still like it, they just accept musicians, no matter what color they are. Plus, my father hates it.”

“Why does he hate it?”

“Because it’s too different, I guess."

]]> 2020-03-30 17:50:58 UTC https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/482855250 Quote #3: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet 23caligiuri_nina https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/482886101 “What if they send them back to Japan? Keiko doesn’t even speak Japanese. What’ll happen to her? She’s more of an enemy there than she is here.”]]> 2020-03-30 18:05:24 UTC https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/482886101 Poetry Slam Summary: A Muslim and Jewish Girls poem 23caligiuri_nina https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/483136072 These two girls, one Muslim and one Jewish share why they are treated so differently but why they are actually more alike than different then what there religions what them to be. Just because of Muslim ancestry, a little Muslim girl gets pulled aside in an airport line. Or just because of Jewish ancestry, a little Jewish girl is expected to pick up the penny. They quote "...we both look discrimination in the eye..." They were born into assumption, grew up with having to be pulled aside in the airport line, or assuming that she would pick up the penny that fell.  But what people really don't notice is  that they are more alike than different all their lives, for an example they both believe in God. Hence how they ended up as poets together, preforming on the same stage. ]]> 2020-03-30 20:20:37 UTC https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/483136072 Interview with Takashi Hochizaki 23caligiuri_nina https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/483167685 Japanese Internment Camp Prisoner ]]> 2020-03-30 20:42:13 UTC https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/483167685 Rationale: Interview with Takashi Hochizki 23caligiuri_nina https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/483169573 Takashi was a prisoner in a Japanese internment camp when he was 16 years old. Of course this relates back to my focal text. Both in the focal text and this video, 2 questions were mentioned. Both were asked on a questionnaire given by the U.S to the Japanese. If you read Quote #2 of my focal text, that is explaining question 27, and question 28 asked the Japanese to basically swear that they would fight for the country that striped away their families, passions, and jobs. These questions specifically seem to be stick around in the survivors mind. Now we know why. ]]> 2020-03-30 20:43:37 UTC https://padlet.com/23caligiuri_nina/Japan_1939/wish/483169573