My distinguished stream by https://padlet.com/wagned49/ydzbfigg8ajj Made with fortitude en-us 2018-05-03 02:27:04 UTC 2024-10-02 04:14:53 UTC hello@padlet.com Week 10 (April 8-14) Read and Connect wagned49 https://padlet.com/wagned49/ydzbfigg8ajj/wish/257505187 The other day I was substitute teaching in a second grade classroom in the Oshkosh Area School District.  One of the tasks I had to perform was reading the picture book So Far From the Sea by Eve Bunting and illustrated by Chris K Soentpiet.  In this book a young boy and his family travel to a former Japanese interment camp to visit the grave of his grandfather.  This got me thinking about April being Asian Heritage Month.  I thought that this book gave the students a glimpse into the trials and tribulations which Japanese Americans had to endure oin the interment camps during World War II.  These people who 80% of which were American citizens lost their basic rights of freedom due to mistrust, fear, racism and social injustice.  I did some research and found several other picture books out there that deal with Japanese internment camps during World War II.  I went to the public library and checked out three more titles which I could use one day in an elementary classroom.  There were even more books on this topic but many had been checked out presumably by teachers for Asian Heritage Month.  I will detail each of these titles in the following paragraphs.

Barbed Wire Baseball by Marissa Moss and illustrated by Yuko Shimizu details how a young Japanese man named Kenichi Zenimura who was a seni-professional baseball player before the war built a baseball dimond with nothing more than ambition and spare parts on the Gila River War Relocation center in Arizona.  He assembled a baseball league from residents of the camp and gave the residents a sense of nomalacy throught their time there.

How Did THIS happen HERE? is a non-fiction book that gives the elementary reader a glimpse into the Japanese Internment Camps using historical photos and a discription any middle to upper elementary student can easily understand.

The Braclet by Yoshiko Uchida and illustrated by Joanna Yardley details the story of a young girl named Emi who was sent to an assembly center and ultimately an internment camp.  Seperated from her father and friends Emi learns to deal with missing her loved ones and loses a braclet her friend Laurie had given to her while realizing loved ones are never lost if you don't forget them.
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