Student information: READ EVERYTHING I am out due to my son being sick. I am trusting you to be focused and to get the assigned work finished. YOU ARE TO TURN IN EVERYTHING so that I can gauge where we will be on Wednesday. Did you turn in your poetry response today? Circle one YES NO

Background information on the Japanese Internment Camps (We will look at more information in our next class. ) On February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 which ordered the opening of these camps under the US Military. More than 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were forced to move from their homes to internment camps. Internment camps were scattered all over the interior West, in isolated desert areas of Arizona, California, Utah, Idaho, Colorado, and Wyoming away from the coastal lands (no communication with Japan). In 1944, Japanese Americans were permitted to return home…what was left of them. Most had their properties and businesses confiscated due to their heritage. Hatred and fear still existed in their old communities. The last camp was closed in 1946.

What do you think? Jeane Wakatsuki was a young child when she and her family were ordered to the Manzanar camp. She could not talk about her experiences and the effect on her life for many years. Based on the information we just learned, what details do you think Jeanne Wakatsuki would emphasize in her memoir about the Manzanar interment camp? Why? Write this response on the back of this page.

You are reading “Farewell to Manzanar” on pages 866-876 You MAY NOT take home a book. I have a pdf of the text on http://wpboweela.weebly.com. It is also on the online textbook. You are to complete the activating assignment and then you are to read quietly with your seat partner. Complete the graphic organizer as you read.

The first four slides are what you received as I was out with a sick child. The next slides are the information we would have covered and which we will cover in the next class.

On a FULL PIECE OF PAPER which you can hand in: Write a narrative of your day so far. Start with waking and a create the story of what has happened to you until now. End the piece with “My English told me to write about my day and here it is.”  

REVISE: Go back and change the structure of your piece. Begin with the most exciting part of your day (even if the most exciting part was the junk food you ate for “breakfast”). Flash back to you waking up. Move forward to your arrival at school. Make sure that your story still makes sense. End the piece the same way. Add adjectives and adverbs to make the description pop! Use parallel structure at least once. Use anaphora and/or repetition at least once. Use at least two paragraphs.  

REFLECT Answer these questions on the same piece of paper on which you wrote and revised your story. Looking back at the first version to the second version, what were the impacts of the changes that were made? What details were emphasized? What details did you just leave out (probably going to the bathroom – no one wants to read about that!) Did the revisions add clarity or is the story more specific? Did the emotion of the narrative come out more afterward?

Think concentration camps only existed in Europe?

Welcome to World War II On February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 More than 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were forced to move from their homes to internment camps

Continued… Internment camps were scattered all over the interior West, in isolated desert areas of Arizona, California, Utah, Idaho, Colorado, and Wyoming Away from the coastal lands (no communication with Japan).

Here’s what it looked like…

Bussed in with little or no belongings…

Sometimes separated from families…

Caged in…

Expected to carry on life as usual with limited resources…

Even attending school…

Here’s the high school… Read this information! March 20 (odd) March 21 (even) Here’s the high school…

This Continued… Until 1944. Japanese Americans were permitted to return home…what was left of them Hatred and fear still existed in their old communities The last camp was closed in 1946.

Manzanar Manzanar National Historic Site (Yes, you can go visit the site) Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston interview

BELLRINGER April 1 Read these lines: “They had seen how quickly Papa was removed, and they knew now that he would not be back for quite a while…. He had been imprisoned at Fort Lincoln, in an all-male camp for enemy aliens.” What emotion do you think the author is feeling? What words give you that impression? Make the connection between the words and the feeling.

Continue reading Pick up where you and your partner finished reading last class (Monday)