Relocation of Japanese Americans: pages 157-160
Essential Questions:
1. How were Japanese Americans treated during WWII in Washington? How does it differ
from other countries during that time?
Depth of Knowledge:
1. Level Three (Strategic Thinking): Support ideas with details and examples, identify
research questions, investigate, cite sources and revise.
2. Level Four (Extended Thinking): Analyze and synthesize information from multiple
sources. Design, connect and create.
Secondary Resources:
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Washington State History Text Book pages 157 – 160
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/japanese-relocation/
http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/jarda/historical-context.html
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http://www.ushistory.org/us/51e.asp Japanese-American Internment from US History .org
http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/news_colasurdo.htm Primary sources to view
http://www.janm.org/nrc/resources/internfs/ Japanese American National Museum
Incarceration facts
http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/ Internment History- PBS.org
http://www.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/military/japanese-internment.html text set
from the National Archives with multiple annotated resources, links to primary resources
(Pictures).
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Primary Resources:
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Western Defense Command & Forth Army Wartime Civil Control Admin. document pg.
159.
http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/Documents/wrapam.html
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/japanese_internment/doc
s.php
Key words/Vocabulary:
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Japanese ancestry
Internment
Relocation order
Security risk
Minidoka Relocation Center
Civil Rights
Gordon Hirabayashi
U.S. Court of Appeals
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Thesis Statements*: Topic+Opinion/Argument=Reasoning
Topic
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Opinion/Argument
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Reasoning
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1. Japanese Americans were treated unfairly by the United States during WWII.
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