This Formative is by: Ashly Winkle
This is an engaging lesson that allows students to demonstrate reading abilities, explore and analyze primary documents, and learn about the Japanese Internment.
What year was Japanese immigration ended?
What year did Japan bomb the U.S.?
What year did Roosevelt authorize military authorities to exclude civilians from any area without a trial or hearing?
What year was an apology and reparations finally made to the Japanese Americans?
What reasons did the newsreel give for the internment? Can you identify evidence that supported their reasons?
Why do YOU think the Japanese Americans were interned during World War II?
Who do you think the audience was for this newsreel? In other words, who did the government want to see this newsreel?
Based on the Document B reading, what reasons are suggested for the Japanese internment? What evidence supports their reasons?
Based on the Document C reading, what reasons are suggested for the Japanese internment? What evidence supports their reasons?
Based on the Document D reading, what reasons are suggested for the Japanese internment? What evidence supports their reasons?
Based on Document E reading, what reasons are suggested for the Japanese internment? What evidence supports their reasons?
Now that you have reviewed all of the documents and their evidence, why do you think the United States decided to intern the Japanese?
If you were alive and an American citizen when the attack on Pearl Harbor occurred, what would your reaction be?
Would you want the USA to declare war on Japan?
Would you feel any different about Japanese Americans?