Using Primary Sources: Teaching about the Japanese Internment Camps Sara Shoob, ISD Lacey Center
Japanese Internment Camps Creating a lesson to meet the needs of a wide variety of students
Differentiation For Internment Camp Lesson Sources Include: –Executive Order 9066 –Cartoon –Photographs –Letters from students –Poster –Map
Documents Executive Order cument_images/doc_074_big.jpgwww.ourdocuments.gov/document_data/do cument_images/doc_074_big.jpg
Political Cartoons
Photographs Photograph, "Japanese near trains during Relocation"; ARC #195538; National Archives
Children of the Raphael Weill Public School, San Francisco, CA, April, 1942 “Children of Innocence”
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093.jpghttp:// 093.jpg Civilian Order No. 5
Photos Taken by Internees um/miyatake1.htmlhttp:// um/miyatake1.html Lani Morioka dressed for the walk to the group showers.
These young boys were playing near the fence and one of the guard tower of the camp. Photo copyright by Archie Miyatake
A son and soldier of the 442nd visiting his parents at Manzanar Concentration Camp. Photo copyright by Archie Miyatake.
Letters From Students Japanese American National Museum:
Letters From Students Smithsonian Institution, Letters from the Japanese American Internment: lesson_plans/japanese_internment/lesson 1_main.html lesson_plans/japanese_internment/lesson 1_main.html Resources Page: –Web Sites, Books for Teachers, Books for Students
Map
Document Analysis Worksheets: sons/analysis_worksheets/worksheets.htmlhttp:// sons/analysis_worksheets/worksheets.html
Additional Resources Lesson Plan: relocation_wwii/teaching_activities.htmlwww.archives.gov/digital_classroom/japanese_ relocation_wwii/teaching_activities.html
Professional Sources: Interview with Dr. David Kennedy –Author of Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War,