Teaching Japanese American Incarceration during WWII by Lisa Buchanan https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz As we view the book, watch the video, and discuss the sources, please "backchannel" your ideas about what resources you might use, relevant academic vocabulary you would teach, and questions you might pose in teaching Japanese American Incarceration during WWII. en-us 2025-03-05 22:38:50 UTC 2025-03-06 16:45:06 UTC hello@padlet.com Write to Me grasmussen9 https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354545450

  • 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"?

    • ]]>     2025-03-06 16:17:22 UTC https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354545450     lalpert2 https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354547774 • 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?

    ]]>     2025-03-06 16:19:04 UTC https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354547774     Write to me - Discussion Question kcampagna2 https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354549269

  • Why did Miss Breed continued to send packages?

  • What is the significance of the letters?

    • ]]>     2025-03-06 16:20:07 UTC https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354549269     pmelchiorre2 https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354549353 Only include resources that are educational and historically correct. Importance of using accurate vocabulary.

    ]]>     2025-03-06 16:20:10 UTC https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354549353     Write to me- Vocabulary kcampagna2 https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354551531

  • Asian American

  • Executive relocation order

  • Imprison

  • Activist

  • Enemy

    • ]]>     2025-03-06 16:21:52 UTC https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354551531     estrouse2 https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354551625

  • sharing the importance of understanding different texts and gaining knowledge

  • having historically accurate text

  • having current text that students could relate to

    • ]]>     2025-03-06 16:21:57 UTC https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354551625     asipera https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354551699

  • Vocabulary: incarceration, evacuation, internment/concentration camps

  • Importance of primary sources


    • ]]>     2025-03-06 16:22:02 UTC https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354551699     opletter https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354553034

  • 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

    • ]]>     2025-03-06 16:22:48 UTC https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354553034     aturner34_2 https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354554273

  • gave vocab that can be misused vs accurate vocab

  • making sure to include primary sources when available

    • ]]>     2025-03-06 16:23:47 UTC https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354554273     klewis32_2 https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354556212 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?

    ]]>     2025-03-06 16:25:13 UTC https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354556212     Primary Sources- Vocabulary kcampagna2 https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354558318

  • Civilian Exclusion

  • Evacuation

  • Assembly Centers

  • Concentration Camps

    • ]]>     2025-03-06 16:26:18 UTC https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354558318     rglicker https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354558457 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


    • ]]>     2025-03-06 16:26:51 UTC https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354559081     bmartino2_1 https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354559710 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)

    ]]>     2025-03-06 16:27:18 UTC https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354559710     Other Resources kcampagna2 https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354559902 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.

    • ]]>     2025-03-06 16:27:27 UTC https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354559909     msegal4_1 https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354566067 being aware of how Japanese incarceration is framed in relation to the Holocaust

    ]]>     2025-03-06 16:31:44 UTC https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354566067     Vocabulary sbelman3 https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354566562 Assembly centers vs. Detention centers

    Evacuation

    Internment vs. Incarceration

    Relocation

    Resettlement

    ]]>     2025-03-06 16:32:05 UTC https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354566562     Books sbelman3 https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354568123 Paper Wishes by Lois Sepahban

    A Scarf for Keiko by Ann Malaspina

    ]]>     2025-03-06 16:33:11 UTC https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354568123     The Bracelet - Children's Book krandolph21 https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354568597 "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."

    ]]>     2025-03-06 16:33:29 UTC https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354568597     Resource: BrainPop grasmussen9 https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354569967 Lesson plan: https://educators.brainpop.com/lesson-plan/japanese-american-incarceration-lesson-plan-time-continuity-and-change/


    Video:

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

    ]]>     2025-03-06 16:34:23 UTC https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354569967     They Called Us Enemy by George Takei klewis32_2 https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354570775 A child's perspective of the internment of Japanese Americans in WWII

    ]]>     2025-03-06 16:34:55 UTC https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354570775     Hello Maggie! - Shigeru Yabu kcampagna2 https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354571988

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

    ]]>     2025-03-06 16:35:49 UTC https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354571988     Children's lit lalpert2 https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354572088 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.

    • ]]>     2025-03-06 16:36:12 UTC https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354572636     rglicker https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354572675 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.


    ]]>     2025-03-06 16:36:13 UTC https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354572675     emenjivar4 https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354573698 I Am an American: A True Story of Japanese Internment


    Upper Grades/Middle School


    ]]>     2025-03-06 16:36:56 UTC https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354573698     aturner34_2 https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354573930 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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    ]]>     2025-03-06 16:37:05 UTC https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354573930     Flowers from Mariko krandolph21 https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354574701 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.

    ]]>     2025-03-06 16:37:45 UTC https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354574701     Children Books estrouse2 https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354575559

  • The Bracelet, by Yoshiko Uchida

  • A Place Where Sunflowers Grow, by Amy Lee-Tai

  • Love in the Library, By Maggie Tokuda-Hall

    • ]]>     2025-03-06 16:38:21 UTC https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354575559     Flowers from Mariko, By: Rick Noguchi, Deneen Jenks, Michelle Reiko Kumata kcampagna2 https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354575956 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.

    ]]>     2025-03-06 16:38:33 UTC https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354575956     Learning Directly From A Survivor grasmussen9 https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354576323 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.

    ]]>     2025-03-06 16:38:43 UTC https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354576323     Video Resource - TedEd sbelman3 https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354576945 2025-03-06 16:39:10 UTC https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354576945 video resource msegal4_1 https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354577118 2025-03-06 16:39:18 UTC https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354577118 bmartino2_1 https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354577307 -specifically says "prison camps"...could be best practice when needing to teach "hard history"

    ]]>     2025-03-06 16:39:27 UTC https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354577307     emenjivar4 https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354578023 A Place to Belong


    Discusses displacement after Incarceration Camps


    ]]>     2025-03-06 16:39:57 UTC https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354578023     Fish for Jimmy, By: Katie Yamasaki kcampagna2 https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354578373 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.

    ]]>     2025-03-06 16:40:06 UTC https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354578373     Resource https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354579035

  • 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

    • ]]>     2025-03-06 16:40:33 UTC https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354579035     documentary resource msegal4_1 https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354580343 2025-03-06 16:41:34 UTC https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354580343 The Bracelet, By: Yoshiko Uchida asipera https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354581038 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.

    ]]>     2025-03-06 16:42:10 UTC https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354581038     Resources to find Books estrouse2 https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354581558 2025-03-06 16:42:31 UTC https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354581558 Smithsonian Video: Children in Concentration (Internment) Camps grasmussen9 https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354581881 2025-03-06 16:42:48 UTC https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354581881 lalpert2 https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354583827 2025-03-06 16:44:05 UTC https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354583827 We Hereby Refuse, By: Frank Abe and Tamiko Nimura asipera https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354584126 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.

    ]]>     2025-03-06 16:44:18 UTC https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354584126     Baseball Saved Us kthiessen5 https://padlet.com/elonuniversity/qt2w832jp1ro9wkz/wish/3354584537 A young boy finds strength through baseball while imprisoned in a Japanese American concentration camp.

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