https://padlet.com/tizzano2/za8ebrvm7ctxewol By Bella Tizzano, Vivian Chen, and Lydia Schneider en-us 2023-05-15 15:11:05 UTC 2023-05-22 02:26:39 UTC hello@padlet.com tizzano2 https://padlet.com/tizzano2/za8ebrvm7ctxewol/wish/2593235013 Read this article to learn more about the Japanese Internment Camps during World War 2! This article covers many topics about the Japanese Internment Camps such as life in the camps, important people involved, the executive order that started it all, and so much more! It includes photos of the camps and Japanese people in them so you can really visualize and see what you are reading about. This article goes into great detail and even has links to other articles on History.com to learn more about it! I read this article before reading We Are Not Free by Traci Chee and it definitely helped me understand the setting and plot more.]]> 2023-05-16 14:52:43 UTC https://padlet.com/tizzano2/za8ebrvm7ctxewol/wish/2593235013 tizzano2 https://padlet.com/tizzano2/za8ebrvm7ctxewol/wish/2593249242 History.Com Article
Editors, History.com. “Japanese Internment Camps: WWII, Life & Conditions.” History.Com, www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation. Accessed 16 May 2023.

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Staff, Written by, and Written by. “New Acquisition: Civilian Exclusion Posters.” Unbound, 4 Aug. 2020, blogs.uoregon.edu/scua/2020/08/24/new-acquisition-civilian-exclusion-posters/. ]]> 2023-05-16 15:02:30 UTC https://padlet.com/tizzano2/za8ebrvm7ctxewol/wish/2593249242 chen251 https://padlet.com/tizzano2/za8ebrvm7ctxewol/wish/2593257385 These framed photos are art from the period. In all of the 10 internment camps, many people made small wooded birds from scrap wood that they would find. They would use metal scraps to carve the wood and then would paint it. Even though they never mention the carved bird pins in the book, Traci Chee wrote a lot about the character, Minnow. Minnow loves to drawing, and is mentioned to draw everywhere and everything. ]]> 2023-05-16 15:07:57 UTC https://padlet.com/tizzano2/za8ebrvm7ctxewol/wish/2593257385 tizzano2 https://padlet.com/tizzano2/za8ebrvm7ctxewol/wish/2593265146 On page 20 of the book, the author included this image. The image is of the actual exclusion order that would be put out around towns in 1942 which was the first evacuation. In the book two characters named Shig and Twitchy find the paper and they realize that two of their other friends, Tommy and Stan plus their families, live in the area that is first being evacuated, and they will be seperated.]]> 2023-05-16 15:13:15 UTC https://padlet.com/tizzano2/za8ebrvm7ctxewol/wish/2593265146 chen251 https://padlet.com/tizzano2/za8ebrvm7ctxewol/wish/2593267322 2023-05-16 15:14:45 UTC https://padlet.com/tizzano2/za8ebrvm7ctxewol/wish/2593267322 chen251 https://padlet.com/tizzano2/za8ebrvm7ctxewol/wish/2594848024 Artwork Information
Stamberg, Susan. “The Creative Art of Coping in Japanese Internment.” NPR, 12 May 2010, www.npr.org/2010/05/12/126557553/the-creative-art-of-coping-in-japanese-internment.

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“Music in Camp.” Music in Camp | Densho Encyclopedia, encyclopedia.densho.org/Music_in_camp/. Accessed 17 May 2023. ]]> 2023-05-17 14:46:05 UTC https://padlet.com/tizzano2/za8ebrvm7ctxewol/wish/2594848024 schneider518 https://padlet.com/tizzano2/za8ebrvm7ctxewol/wish/2594861333 The book, We Are Not Free, by Traci Chee, the book is set in the early 1940s. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, tensions are high. As discrimination against the Japanese increased, a new plan is put in place. All Japanese people of Japanese descent are to be evacuated from their homes and placed into internment camps. The story follows many POVS in which young characters describe the struggle of enduring such a transition. The book continues with the characters experiencing loss, love, and learning to stay strong together.]]> 2023-05-17 14:55:42 UTC https://padlet.com/tizzano2/za8ebrvm7ctxewol/wish/2594861333 schneider518 https://padlet.com/tizzano2/za8ebrvm7ctxewol/wish/2594864908 This book entails many themes, however, one of the strongest is staying together and staying strong together. This is shown through many stages throughout of the book when the characters are put in many desperate situations, where they learn to stay together.]]> 2023-05-17 14:58:11 UTC https://padlet.com/tizzano2/za8ebrvm7ctxewol/wish/2594864908 schneider518 https://padlet.com/tizzano2/za8ebrvm7ctxewol/wish/2594868693 This event in history teaches us to not discrimnate against a group of people.]]> 2023-05-17 15:00:54 UTC https://padlet.com/tizzano2/za8ebrvm7ctxewol/wish/2594868693 schneider518 https://padlet.com/tizzano2/za8ebrvm7ctxewol/wish/2594871917 Some minor characters that make a big change would be the character Frankie. This character supports other characters and makes some big impacts on others. He gives impressions on others and also influenced others actions.]]> 2023-05-17 15:03:15 UTC https://padlet.com/tizzano2/za8ebrvm7ctxewol/wish/2594871917 tizzano2 https://padlet.com/tizzano2/za8ebrvm7ctxewol/wish/2594875185 2023-05-17 15:05:47 UTC https://padlet.com/tizzano2/za8ebrvm7ctxewol/wish/2594875185 tizzano2 https://padlet.com/tizzano2/za8ebrvm7ctxewol/wish/2594875718 2023-05-17 15:06:11 UTC https://padlet.com/tizzano2/za8ebrvm7ctxewol/wish/2594875718 tizzano2 https://padlet.com/tizzano2/za8ebrvm7ctxewol/wish/2594879082 2023-05-17 15:08:37 UTC https://padlet.com/tizzano2/za8ebrvm7ctxewol/wish/2594879082 tizzano2 https://padlet.com/tizzano2/za8ebrvm7ctxewol/wish/2594880392 2023-05-17 15:09:39 UTC https://padlet.com/tizzano2/za8ebrvm7ctxewol/wish/2594880392 tizzano2 https://padlet.com/tizzano2/za8ebrvm7ctxewol/wish/2594882283 2023-05-17 15:10:58 UTC https://padlet.com/tizzano2/za8ebrvm7ctxewol/wish/2594882283 tizzano2 https://padlet.com/tizzano2/za8ebrvm7ctxewol/wish/2594883168 2023-05-17 15:11:39 UTC https://padlet.com/tizzano2/za8ebrvm7ctxewol/wish/2594883168 chen251 https://padlet.com/tizzano2/za8ebrvm7ctxewol/wish/2594885552 This image shows a Shakuhachi flute player and a young girl singing in July of 1945, at the Topaz concentration camp in Utah.

During this time, the government liked the idea of music being a big part of the camps, so they put a music department in every camp. They also hired many teachers to teach the people at camp and did musical activities. Surprisingly, they let Japanese music be represented in the camps. Mostly every art form practiced in Japanese American communities before the war continued on in many camps. 

A connection to the book is how many characters in the story make connections with music in their chapters. Many of the characters such as Yum-yum, had a personal connection with music before being placed in the camp, and throughout the book you see her and many other characters related music with freedom and spirit. They also had music playing at the parties the camp held for them, and it played a big part in most of the scenes. ]]> 2023-05-17 15:13:13 UTC https://padlet.com/tizzano2/za8ebrvm7ctxewol/wish/2594885552 tizzano2 https://padlet.com/tizzano2/za8ebrvm7ctxewol/wish/2597928537 Traci Chee has not written another book like We Are Not Free or any other historical fiction book. This book is called A Thousand Steps into Night which she wrote. This is what the book is about, "In the realm of Awara, where gods, monsters, and humans exist side by side, Miuko is an ordinary girl resigned to a safe, if uneventful, existence as an innkeeper’s daughter. But when Miuko is cursed and begins to transform into a demon with a deadly touch, she embarks on a quest to reverse the curse and return to her normal life. Aided by a thieving magpie spirit and continuously thwarted by a demon prince, Miuko must outfox tricksters, escape demon hunters, and negotiate with feral gods if she wants to make it home again.
With her transformation comes power and freedom she never even dreamed of, and she’ll have to decide if saving her soul is worth trying to cram herself back into an ordinary life that no longer fits her… and perhaps never did." (Amazon) This is a fantasy book and it is clearly completely different from We Are Not Free. One similarity is that the main character(s) are of Asian descent.]]> 2023-05-19 18:58:40 UTC https://padlet.com/tizzano2/za8ebrvm7ctxewol/wish/2597928537 chen251 https://padlet.com/tizzano2/za8ebrvm7ctxewol/wish/2599245450 Night by Elie Wiesel is a memoir based on his experiences with his father during the Holocaust in 1944–1945 in the Nazi German concentration camps in Auschwitz and Buchenwald in Europe, near the end of the Second World War.

Some similarities between Night and We Are Not Free are that there were both based in the middle of the war and that people were discriminated against based on their beliefs/religion/race, and were placed in camps. Also, another similarity is that there were two camps that were mentioned in the books. 

Some differences are that in the books are that in Night there was only one point of view, but in We Are Not Free there are multiple points of views shown. Also, in Night it was based on someone's personal experiences. And in We Are Not Free, was written about fake characters. ]]> 2023-05-22 01:50:09 UTC https://padlet.com/tizzano2/za8ebrvm7ctxewol/wish/2599245450 tizzano2 https://padlet.com/tizzano2/za8ebrvm7ctxewol/wish/2599293324 A Thousand Steps Into Night Source
https://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Steps-into-Night/dp/0358469988]]> 2023-05-22 02:23:21 UTC https://padlet.com/tizzano2/za8ebrvm7ctxewol/wish/2599293324 tizzano2 https://padlet.com/tizzano2/za8ebrvm7ctxewol/wish/2599298085 2023-05-22 02:26:36 UTC https://padlet.com/tizzano2/za8ebrvm7ctxewol/wish/2599298085