1. 4 Corners Debate A series of statements will be projected.
After reading the questions, please move to the corner of the room that best describes your position on the statement.
Strongly Agree
Agree
Disagree
Be prepared to explain your position.

2. Random book bag/ locker searches are appropriate measures to maintain safety in schools.

3. To limit cyberbullying, students should not bring any digital devices to school.

4. The U.S. government should be allowed to monitor the cellular communications of all citizens.

5. It is acceptable for individuals who fit in a certain profile to undergo extra scrutiny by law enforcement.

6. Should freedom be sacrificed in the name of national security?

7. Japanese Internment in the U.S.A.
Read Japanese internment article.

8. How were Muslims viewed by many non-Muslim Americans after the attacks on September 11th?
Obviously not all Muslims are terrorists. There are over 2 billion Muslims in the world.

9. Japanese-Americans
After the attack on Pearl Harbor there is a hostile response against Japanese-Americans.
Mainstream America sees Japanese-Americans as traitors and un-American.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt passes Executive Order 9066.
Executive Order 9066: The military can suspend (take away) the constitutional rights of anyone who is seen as a threat to national security.
The same kind of prejudice happens after Pearl Harbor.

10. Internment Camps
120,000 Japanese were taken to internment camps. 62% of those put into internment camps were born in the U.S. Some had even fought for the U.S. in WWI.
Internment is the confining large groups of people into an area without trial. Interment camps are the locations that the Japanese-Americans were confined to. There is a distinction between internment, which is being confined usually for preventive or political reasons, and imprisonment, which is being closely confined as a punishment for crime.
1100 German Americans were arrested.
3200 Italian Americans were arrested.

11. Located in the West. Most were there anyway (Angel Island)

15. In 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed a bill that gave Japanese-Americans who were put into internment camps during WWII and still alive $20,000 and a signed apology from the president.

16. Despite the practices of the U. S
Despite the practices of the U.S. government more than 33,000 Japanese-Americans served on the Allied side during WWII. Specifically, they were interpreters. They also fought in the war, but they were not allowed to fight in the Pacific Theatre.

17. Should freedom be sacrificed in the name of national security?